[vdr] Re: AW: Re: My power/noise/heat saving ideas

[Alessio Sangalli <alesan@manoweb.com>]

Guido Fiala wrote:

> Well, we had this before - just one new thing - you don't have to place the 
> pump inside the casing (given long enough hoses).
> Maybe there are some more fluids that can be used beside water, ok oil could 
> make a big mess, but soemthing that vaporizes without traces and is not 

a friend of mine uses a water based cooler he built together with the 
father of his gf in a afternoon they had nothing to do; it's absolutely 
quiet and keeps his Athlon 1800+ at 30 degrees. He uses a 25 liters can 
with an immerged (?) acquarium-pump.


I use the hdd 'envelopes' from www.quietpc.com; from the same website I 
ordered a quiet PSU cpu cooler. The problem is that I have also put a 
fan to keep the DVB card fresh, but this vibrates making an hearable sound!!

However, without this fan, you cannot hear the system running by day; by 
night, perhaps because it's all more than a year old => so a bit dirty, 
I can still hear the system, but also the noise of the television itself 
(ja, probably from the transformer).

Important: the hdd envelope makes the ROTATIONAL noise of the hdd 
extremely quiet. For the SEEK-noise it's needed to act with the 
utilities from the hdd manufactorer (I've set my ibm hdd so I can't 
absolutely hear seek time).



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as