[vdr] Re: How to get the VDR box silent

[Marco Hentschel <marco_hentschel@hentschelit.de>]

look at www.mini-itx.com

Marco


Am Mon, 2003-01-20 um 09.48 schrieb Ondrej Wisniewski:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I will be starting to assemble a VDR box soon, but in order to install it in the 
> living room it should be quite silent (this would also help a lot to convince my 
> wife of this project (-; ).
> 
> I think that the only really noisy parts of the box will be the cooling fans of 
> the power supply unit and the main processor. Now I read in a recent issue of 
> the CHIP magazin that you could use a PIII 1.2GHz without fan if underclocked to 
> 600MHz. Unfortunatly this seems quite a waste of processor power (which you pay 
> for of course).
> 
> Does anyone know of a less expensive CPU that will run without active cooling ? 
> How did you deal with the noise problem ?
> 
> I wonder why commercial sat receivers (like the DreamBox running on Linux 
> http://www.dream-multimedia-tv.de/cat_eng/produkte/dreambox.php4) don't have the 
> cooling problem ? They have a Main processor and power supply as well.
> 
> Thank you for anyone who can give me some information on this subject.
> Ondrej ...
> 
> 
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