On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 08:13:07PM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote:
> * Imre Oolberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-01 19:17]:
> > I am thinking of setting up for myself a noiseless workstation
> 
> I have that - easily. It is in another room.
> with DVI and USB it is easy to get 10m and a wall between you and the 
> machine.
I did that for years with PS/2 and VGA with 75ohm BNC cable to avoid
degrading the signal.

Just watch out for ground loops, they tend to bite when you start using
unisolated single-ended signaling over distances the devices weren't
really designed for.

Besides, then you get to walk to the machine when you want to use CD's,
for example - with a thin client you get to fight and waste time trying
to mount it from the client on the server.

Nowadays I have a Core 2 Duo with laptop drives, a 120mm power supply
fan and the stock heatsink with PWM. I can't hear it when it is idle, so
after building it I didn't bother moving it farther away. The buzz the
deflection coils in my CRTs make (yes, CRTs do make noise and it drove
me crazy until I got used to it) is much louder than the machine even
under 100% CPU... let alone the noise the rack of servers 10m and 3
walls away makes :)

-- 
Jussi peltola

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