Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:36:47 02/11/04
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On February 10, 2004 at 12:32:14, Slater Wold wrote: >On February 10, 2004 at 12:24:54, Keith Evans wrote: > >>On February 10, 2004 at 12:07:03, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>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.. >> >>Dell PowerEdge 2650's (rackmount dual Xeon) are as loud as a cheap vacuum >>cleaner. I can't stand to have them anywhere but in a distant server room. I >>have a decibel meter at home so I could take measurements of them versus my >>vacuum cleaner if you want proof ;-) >> >>When I had a Sun Ultra5 pizzabox I used to keep it off and just use it as a >>monitor stand because it was too noisy. (That's about all those are good for >>anyways.) I missed that part and it is pretty funny. I don't mind a machine being noisy if it is _fast_. A ultra5, on the other hand is _not_ fast by any definition there is, so if his was noisy and slow, I'd have tossed it long ago. We have some ultra-5's here and ours are not noisy at all, however... But I don't use them, I prefer my abacus as it is faster. >> >>If you're working in a noisy environment then you may not notice how loud these >>machines are because the noise from them is masked. And of course if you're into >>hobbies that involve high performance gasoline engines, then that might be a >>factor. >> >>-K > >Acer G700's sound like A/C unit's. They are unreal. The only computer I've >ever worked with, that was so loud, I had to complain. > >And obviously, Acer got a LOT of complaints. Because 3 months after releasing >it, they made a quiet-fan-kit for it, that made it almost silent. > >I don't hear the hard drives, at all. Only the CPU fan, mostly. Just sounds >like a wind tunnel. I'm used to it. The fan isn't really noisy, it's only 4800 >RPM. It's the 115CFM of air pushing through that makes the noise. (As opposed >to a Delta 7,200RPM that was just winding-loud-obnoxious-noise.)
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