Quiet System

Low power CPU with a liquid/convection cooling system heatsink coupled
with solid state storage instead of a hard drive. I read an article
about this just recently. The guy thought there was something wrong
with the thing at first because he was so used to fans and whirs he
thought it was busted until the video came up on the monitor.

Jason wrote:
>
> Steven Martindale wrote:
> > Hmm, could always offer to trade parts for a pentium 100 system for a
> > working quiet system.. :> (Well, see if I can get it working first)
>
> What exactly is in a "quiet system"? Even if you
> underclock/undervoltage the CPU so you can get away with next to no
> fan, you still have the HD turning some number of RPMs right? (this is
> where lower performance HDs will pay off - lower RPMs means lower
> pitch means lower percieved volume)
>
> The quietest system I had had a single Maxtor HD and was actually
> overclocked, but cooled by a water-cooled peltier element.
>

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