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Adrian Midgley wrote:
Thin clients for X or for that matter MS' windowing GUI don't have a fan in, am I right?
Ylem were using Axel boxes, the Axel 3000 65 has no moving parts (apart I guess from the off switch ?!) and supports VNC to Linux, RDP to Windows, and a selection of text terminal options! www.axel.com Other vendors vary as to whether they have a fan or not.
So no noise to disturb the office/consulting room? Commonest GP IT grumble apart from programs falling over is of the noise the PC makes in a consulting room.
You can get real computing power these days without a fan, ask Apple ! The G4 cube supplies the power of one Cray C90 processor, but without the room sized cooling system, although the cube runs hot enough to generate a heat haze above the CPU! If you step down to lower power processors, Intel do a selection of processors that can be air cooled (or even water cooled - shades of standing milk cartons on the old ZX81). You can also buy fan free kits for various existing CPUs, and fan free power supplies. There are whole websites dedicated to this. The problem is most people don't (think they) want to pay the premium, or loss of CPU power. In future I'm assured processors will come with a layer of artifical diamond across the top, to take advantage of the high heat conductance of diamond. Intel CPUs are already worth more than there weight in gold, but the diamond should let them stay cooler. I'd be more worried about the programs falling over myself - but then I don't do hardware ;-) Simon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.