On 8/21/07, Nicolas Huillard <nicolas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > covert covert a écrit : > > My question is what CPU should I chose for good noise reducing , heat > > reducing solutions. > > The most efficient CPU are still the VIA ones... Low power, very low > heat, very low noise. I will have a look at these. > There are lots of EPIA mobos (Mini-ITX for factor) with fanless CPUs > around. With these, you get only one PCI slot, but everything is > integrated on the motherboard. > Using a good laptop-like power block (efficient and fanless), you can > have a really silent setup (one slow fan for the whole system). > At least 2 PCI slots is a must. I want 2 x DVB-S, 1 x DVB-T, 1 x Analog TV. I plan to do this with 1 all in one card and a single Skystar2 for the second DVB-S tuner. > > For processing power and cost I am looking at AMD AM2 4000 and Intel > > Duel Core E2140 and Intel core2 Duo E4400. I am open to other > > suggestions as long as they can currently be purchased in store. > > > > Since the system will be spending 95% of it's time idle I want a CPU > > that can drop down to the slowest possible clock speed with the least > > power consumption. I will also be using temperature controlled fans to > > keep it real quiet and any other ways I can find to drop down power > > and noise. > > Drop noise: > * suspend the disk drive with rubber bands > * carefully design the air path inside the case Nice tips. I especially like the idea of rubber bands. > > -- > NH > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr > _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
