[geeks] Ideas

[Thomas Gallaway]

Uhm

Get a 200mhz strongarm embedded box. Silent as hell and I have seen
them going for $15 bucks with 2 PCMCIA slot's.
Or just grab a Sun AXI mainboard with one of the processor's that dont
need a fan... like a 300mhz one or similar. You also can get very silent
power supply's and silencer for harddrives heh...


----- Original Message -----
From: <vance at neurotica.com>
To: "Shawn Wallbridge" <swallbridge at franticfilms.com>
Cc: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: [geeks] Ideas


> On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
>
> > >I am going to try my hand at building a silent computer.  I'm taking
> > >ideas.  I need floating-point, and ethernet or PCI, and I'd like to
have
> > >built-in sound, and a serial console.  The system will not have a
floppy,
> > >CD-ROM, or HDD, and I was thinking of putting it in a 1U rackmount box.
> >
> > We built a nearly silent machine for my boss's kitchen. It used the VIA
> > C3 processor on a mini itx board (from VIA) it has everything onboard
> > (video, sound, lan, serial, video out). The board was around $200 with a
> > 800MHz processor (I don't know what the FP is like on it). The 800 has a
> > small fan on it, which does make a little noise, but the 533 doesn't
> > have a fan, so it is silent.
> >
> > He also went with a 15" NEC flat panel, so it is pretty small and
> > compact (it went in a prebuilt cubby-hole for a TV). He used a USB
> > wireless NIC and a wireless keyboard and mouse, so it doesn't have any
> > cables hanging out. It really is pretty cool.
>
> I've read about this too.  A processor that runs at 5W nominal.  Not bad.
>
> Unfortunately, it wouldn't have a serial console.  I'll be controlling
> this from a Crestron.
>
> Peace...  Sridhar
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