[plug] OT (?) low heat & low noise linux box for firewall?

[Adrian Woodley]

Mooneye, the do-it-all server at the UCC ran (runs?) a dual P90 system, both
with only heatsinks. Most enterprise workstations (HP, IBM, etc) don't use CPU
fans either. I'm not sure if this is because they under-clock the CPU or what
the story is. On the other hand, my AMD K6-2 450 has two fans on the one
heatsink. Thats just cause I got gready though :) I wanted to be able to use
both speed read-outs from sensord.

Regards,
Adrian Woodley
Diskworld Computer & IT
www.Diskworld.com.au

Australian Linux Conference, Perth 2003
http://conf.linux.org.au


Quoting Cameron Patrick <cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au>:

> On Mon, 9 Sep 2002 13:06:59 +0800 (WST), Bret Busby wrote:
> 
> | We use as a gateway/firewall/server, a Cyrix 6x86 P120+ ; a 100MHz CPU.
> 
> We have a 133MHz version of these ("PR166") as a home gateway box. Besides
> the fact that its L2 cache is completely broken and so it runs dog slow, it
> isn't bad. At one point, the CPU fan stopped spinning entirely.
> Surprisingly, it ran for well over a week like this without any problems,
> and then spontaneously rebooted and didn't even get past LILO. I bought a
> replacement fan for it which was quite noisy, so I desoldered the gunky
> white HDD connector and ran it off the 5V line.  Now there's plenty of air
> across the CPU and no problems at all.
> 
> The Cyrix chips produce more heat than the Intel chips of their ilk.  I
> wouldn't be surprised if an Intel P100 would run with just a heatsink.
> 
> CP.
> 
>