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

[Axel Gruber <axelgruber3@gmx.de>]

Hi

If you are able i assume to use the Harddrive of a existing SERVER and boot your
VDR over this Network.

So you donīt have any HD-Noise.

Here i use a usual Case with a silent Power-Supply.
Additional i use a usual CPU-Cooler but i run it on 7V - (1,2ghz Duron) - no problems at all.
The main Probleme here was the heat of the DVB-Devices (here i use 4) i modifyed
my Case so there is a cooler (runs very slow) above the DVB-S Devices - works also very well.

With this mofifications the VDR is realy not "loud" and my "aquarium-Pump" is louder. :-)

So i can live with it but iīm sure there is a way to build it Fanless but then you 
have to build in HEAT-Pipes wich bring the Heat out of the BOX.....

CU

Axel



> 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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