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

["Christian Jacobsen" <christian.jacobsen@stageholding.de>]

Hi,

I am using an PIII 933 with an Arctic Super Silten Pro. This one has a very
big heatsink. I had to cut of a piece to get it on the CPU (bad layout of MB
:( ) but then i could reduce the Fan to 5 Volt (I will have to se if this
works in summer ;) or 7 Volt. Which makes it very silent - even with 5V the
heatsink does never get hot :) Here you can buy those it :
http://www.reichelt.de/index_direkt.html?AC%20SUPERSILENT%204+PbUvxcN87JYAAB
w9LAU+EF
If you want then you can buy 5V / 7V Adapters there to.


Then for reducing harddisk noise I can really recomend NoVibes from
http://www.noisecontrol.de
It reduces the noise of the running disk very well :) I can't hear the disk
running any longer (even when muting the Reciver) :). It does not reduce the
"heads moving" noise so that you will need a silent HD from the beginning.

As next i am going to try the NMT-2 (Fan control) from
http://www.noisecontrol.de to get rid of the other Fan noise.

Greetings Christian

>> 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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