Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:07:03 02/10/04
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On February 10, 2004 at 11:35:27, Slater Wold wrote: >On February 10, 2004 at 11:22:00, Anthony Cozzie wrote: > >>On February 10, 2004 at 10:15:03, Slater Wold wrote: >> >>>On February 10, 2004 at 05:50:09, Daniel Clausen wrote: >>> >>>>On February 09, 2004 at 18:49:45, Slater Wold wrote: >>>> >>>>>And got it! >>>>> >>>>>I recieved my system today, late, and am currently putting it all together. >>>>>I'll have some benches & what-not tomorrow. >>>>> >>>>>The system: >>>>> >>>>>AMD FX51 >>>>>Gigabyte GA-K8NNXP-940 >>>>>1GB Corsair TwinX DDRAM (Registered) >>>>>GeForce FX 5900 Ultra >>>>>(5) 18GB U320 SCSI HDs >>>>> >>>>>Windows 2000 Pro >>>>>*&* >>>>>Windows 2003 Advanced Server for 64-bit Extended Systems >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Should be a lot of fun, for a few months. :) >>>> >>>>Did you get the needed earmuffs too in the package or does one have to order >>>>them separately? ;) >>>> >>>>I see that these comps are nice to have when it comes to comp chess, but I hope >>>>the market for silent PCs grows a bit in the future. Sorry for my rambling. :) >>>> >>>>Sargon (powered with a 5W (max) VIA CPU :) >>> >>>With the stock CPU cooler, it is quieter than my Dell P4. >>> >>>Remember, these CPUs are at 1.5v. They run VERY cool. >> >>But 5 SCSI hard disks are enough to simulate an earthquake. >> >>anthony > >LOL - Try _7_ case fans (2 for the HDs, 2 exhaust, 1 on top, and 2 on the side), >plus a 115CFM CPU cooler, plus a PS with 2 fans. Oh yea, and the motherboard >has a fan (nVidia chipset), and the VRM has a fan too! > >And it's still not as loud as my Dual PIII 1.0Ghz, with 2 Delta 7,200RPM CPU >fans... I think sound is overrated. My dual xeon has three cpu fans, two hard drive bay fans, two power supply fans, and it is not objectionable. It also has 5 X 36 gig 15K U320 SCSI disks, and 3 X 146 10K U320 disks. The drives are _not_ that noisy. They are stuck deep into the chassis in a hot-swap 8-way drive bay and I don't notice them. The machine is not whisper-quiet with all the fans, but the disk drives do not produce any vibration or excessive noise on their own... At least not these (Seagate Cheetahs) in either 10K or 15K types..
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