Re: [LUG] Introduction and opinion sought...

[Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Martin,

By the looks of the manual I guess it would be pretty quiet.  Have you 
found a UK supplier for these?  Only thing I could find was a trade 
supplier or a pre-built system.

From experience, my Athlon 64 3000+ is pretty quiet.  I wouldn't say 
its ultra quiet but I think some of that is down to the standard AMD 
cooler I am using with a Q-Tec 350W PSU.  As far as I know, the Cool & 
Quiet technology makes a bit of a difference, I can't say I've noticed 
myself with two kids running around I can't hear the PC at the best of 
times :-)

Rob


Martin White wrote:

> Hello people,
>
> I was recently installing Gentoo and while sitting there waiting for it to 
> compile for donkey's i figured i'd come along and sign up to the DCLUG...
>
> I live in Honiton and have used linux on and off since slackware 3.2 / mid 
> 90's. 1995(? who knows!) I've used quite a few different linux's but have 
> always gone backwards and forwards between that and windows because 
> something, somewhere will always prevent me from going over completely - i'm 
> also a developer by trade and until probably the last six months that had 
> been 100% windows.
>
> So anyway, i've currently just gone back to linux (gentoo as mentioned) and 
> will try my best this time to make it stick even if i have to do it via 
> emulation.
>
> Onto the opinion bit. It's becoming apparent that the shuttle pc that i have 
> (SN41G2) is starting to get a bit long in the tooth. I've twice now had to 
> vacuum the thing out to unclog it (from dust) and redo the thermal paste on 
> the CPU to keep the temperatures at bay. And compiling up gentoo made it 
> painfully obvious that the Athlon XP processor doesn't cut it quite as well 
> as i'd like it to (even if it's quite powerful by some peoples standards!)
>
> I'm therefore looking for something new. Would like AMD64, probably SATA. Must 
> be NEAR SILENT if at all possible.
>
> Saw an IWILL ZPC64 in a mag yesterday. Anyone got any experience of them? I 
> don't think they're SATA, but other than that. Noisy?
>
> Failing that, any opinions on very quiet AMD64 stuff. Needs to be either 
> shuttle size or at least small, just because of my desk (or lack of!)
>
> Anyways, enough for now. Sorry for waffling.
>
> Martin.
>
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