[plug] DFI Motherboards - Sound

[Adam Hewitt]

I don't know if this is relevant, but I saw a wireless AV receiver in a
catalogue yesterday for $99. I don't know if it would work in your
setup, but you could use one of these to control your MythTV remotely
with the remote control?

Adam. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au 
> [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf Of W.Kenworthy
> Sent: Wednesday, 12 October 2005 10:57 AM
> To: Plug List
> Subject: Re: [plug] DFI Motherboards - Sound
> 
> 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
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