[plug] DFI Motherboards - Sound

[W.Kenworthy]

Quiets relative: Yes the cupboard will make it quieter still (plus
remove an ugly steel box from view).  

The more I read on the topic of quiet PC's, it appears more logical to
put as much as possible (hot bits wanting air flow like tuners, noisy
disk arrays etc) in a backend in the garage, and have a light weight
frontend thats diskless/fanless.  All I need is money ...

I think I might go back to the drawing board and put the tuners back in
my athlon 2500+ desktop machine that can run 24/7 and not annoy anyone
but my power bill, and strip the former media PC and its quiet, but
underpowered 100w supply and 993Mhz P3 down to a frontend (mythtv) only.
My only difficulty is the analog tuner sees a noisy signal at the end of
a long feed, though the Divico DVB-T tuner has an incredible picture -
the cupboard is much closer to the antenna distribution amp.

BillK

On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 10:04 +0800, Kev wrote:
> 
> W.Kenworthy wrote:
> > I have not looked at this type of thing but it seems a bit useless for
> > my purposes.  As the box will eventually sit in a closed cupboard with
> > air ducted in/out (I intend using the PS fan for extraction, and
> > probably another 12v 120mm fan running at 7v blowing on the hot bits) -
> > these power supplies seem to depend on passive air flow, so I dont think
> > they will "cut it" unless I add fans to it which kinda defeats the
> > purpose!
> > 
> > I am happy with the antec, but if the thermaltake is a little quieter
> > under similar conditions, it looks promising.
> 
> One must ask then, why the concern - shut the cupboard door!!  That'll 
> make (almost) any fan quite.
> 
> Kev