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
