[mythtv-users] Hardware recommendations

Ed Wildgoose edward.wildgoose at frmhedge.com
Sat Oct 18 00:31:52 EDT 2003


>A standalone computer as quiet as humanly possible.
>
Hmm, see http://www.silentpcreview.com for a starting point.  This is 
rather difficult in practice to be honest. 

For starting points go to places like www.hush.com or www.silentpc.com - 
however, there are infinite levels of compromise on looks, cpu power, 
price, etc.  Building your own is good practice, but can be quite a 
learning curve...

I have a home grown machine in an Antec Sonata, and this has a very 
quiet PSU, but it's still loud enough to be annoying.  It is in fact 
quieter though than a PSU I got which had no fans at all (just a huge 
heatsink)... The point is absolutely silent is quite hard to achieve.

My own experience suggests that the CPU is not the hard part to cool 
quietly.  You need to look at PSU and HD mainly (although remember that 
a via will need a much smaller and hence perhaps quieter PSU...)

Ed W



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