Ondrej Wisniewski wrote:
Hello everyone,I did it in a maybe expensive way: I bought a VIA EPIA ME6000 board (189 Euro). This is a complete motherboard in 17cm x 17cm with Network, Firewire, USB2.0 etc. with a fanless 600 MHz VIA Eden processor. I intend to use this box not only as a VDR but as a 7day/24h running "multi purpose server" with voicemail, FAX receiver etc.
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.Dnn't know the Dreambox, but as far as I know, the DBOX 2 uses a PowerPC embedded processor. It runs with passive cooling.
Thank you for anyone who can give me some information on this subject. Ondrej ...
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