2012-12-06, 09:18
You can go fanless. its just gonna set you back a bit of money.
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http://www.quietpc.com/sys-z77-workstation
check out
http://www.quietpc.com/sys-z77-workstation
(2012-12-10, 04:05)thethirdnut Wrote: @binwiederda - one other thing I'd mention is that I have had very spotty service with the RealTEK NIC's.
ie. sometimes on powerup it won't for whatever reason detect the NIC and if you have automatic library update on startup it causes a blank library when no network...used to on Dharma anyways.
(2012-12-13, 09:57)mctubster Wrote: So idle in XBMC with Atom, NVidia, really power efficient drives, lets say 40 watts best case.
Playing video maybe 50 watts really best case.
(2012-12-13, 09:57)mctubster Wrote: That is a lot of heat to release using convection. You need a huge amount of surface area, heatsinks on everything or a very large case with a lot of holes in it in the right places so you create a chimney effect.
Now consider that with a "silent" fan, the hard-drives will produce far more bearing noise and harmonics amplified by the case in interesting ways ... so unless you use SSD's there is no point in heading down fanless ... the h/d's make more noise