Quiet System

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At 11:43 PM 10/17/00 -0700, you wrote:
>At 01:28 PM 10/17/00 -0700, you 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.
>
>Well, my purely objective answer for what I want in a quiet system would be
>a computer that didn't keep me from falling asleep at night.
>
>Oh, that's a subjective answer?  :>
>
>Well, I've got the old parts partially put together.  Would have done more
>today but ended up with to much else happening.  It's looking promising, at
>least if it will boot once the video card is in and a monitor hooked up.
>I'm wondering if the harsh noise I remember wasn't the power supply but the
>original hard drive.  Or perhaps something not snuggly mounted, since it
>seems to be running pretty quiet.
>
>Anyway, the parts:  Cheap socket 7 motherboard (no frills, non-integrated
>amptron board, no built in sound/etc), an ISA sound blaster 16 clone, a two
>port seriel card (originally purchased so I could use a modem and mouse at
>the same time, the board only had one seriel port built in), a 4.5 gig (if
>I'm remembering correctly, about to turn in for the night and don't feel
>like pulling the box back out and opening it up) fujistsu 3.5 hard drive
>Fry's was offering at a discount when they decided to drop the model.  Soon
>to get added, a 2 MB S3 Virge based video card (yeah, I know, the
>3d-decelerator, it was however at the time a step up from my 1 MB "Oh,
>surely you'll be happy running your monitor at no more than 640x400) VGA
card.
>
>I don't plan on loading the box up with drives and doodads, less moving
>parts inside it, the quieter it ought to be.  And cooler, which reminds of
>one of the things I noticed shortly before moving to my celeron system, the
>heatsink/fan on my p100 is only working as a heatsink, the fan doesn't spin
>(it's got a pass through connector to tap into one of the 4-pin power
>supply cables, which is connected).  Can a pentium 100 be run safely on
>just a heatsink?  Well, this one was for a few months minumum.  Who knows,
>I hardly even ran it with the case open till I got to playing with it
>towards the end, for all I know the fan never worked (or maybe the noise
>was the fan failing..)
>
>I can say one thing though.  Whoever invented those brass thumbscrews needs
>a medal.  Hmm, and whoever created the KVM switch, though I must say those
>are a little more expensive than I expected.
>
>
>
>Oh, anyone know where I could look for any kind of details on an Intel OEM
>motherboard?  So far I haven't had luck searching Intel's website.  The
>original dealers invoice simply identified it as an "Intel Triton OEM
>motherboard".  It's an AT board, socket 7, there's a rectangular socket
>next to the cpu socket (30 pins arrainged 2x15, I think but am not certain
>that it's labelled VRM), 5 ISA, 3 PCI (I believe with one shared ISA/PCI
>slot).  The only ID number I can find, silkscreened on the middle top
>"INTEL 824301 VER:B"
>
>It was working fine last I knew, only reason I thought of switching to the
>other board I have is that I have no documentation for this one.
>
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