If you buy the right case you can remove the fan altogether. My M10K is in a Sythe e-otonashi case which uses a heat pipe to transfer the CPU heat to a massive external heatsink. http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=3#eotonashi
That case has no room for a PCI card. There are other solutions like the Hush which has a PCI slot http://www.mini-itx.com/store/product.asp?sid=HUSH but its pretty pricey. I run my M10K without a hard drive and mount the file system over 'cluster NFS' so it is TOTALLY silent. derek On Sunday 12 December 2004 17:20, Phil Thompson wrote: > Thanks for that. How noisy is the 10000? Can you slow the fan down? > > Phil > > On Sunday 12 December 2004 4:34 pm, Adam Felson wrote: > > The 600 has 3/10's the floating point performance. That cpu at equal > > clock speed has 1/2 the FP performance. > > > > The 600 can play mpeg2 streams *if* you get the unichrome drivers > > working. It cannot play mpeg4 streams so if your backend has a dumb > > capture card with software mpeg4 compression, you'll have to transcode > > the mpeg4 files. > > > > I went with the 10000 because it can play mpeg2 and mpeg4 without using > > the unichrome drivers. > > > > On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 10:22 +0000, Phil Thompson wrote: > > > I'm slowly deciding on the components to use for a Myth frontend > > > system. I'm looking at the Epia MII boards (PCI slot for the DVB-T > > > tuner, probably a Nova, and a PCMCIA slot for wireless). There will be > > > other backends on the network so this frontend will only have to handle > > > one stream at a time - whatever the user currently wants to watch. > > > > > > My question is about the CPU. The CPU utilisation figures I've seen > > > bandied around for the 10K with the Unichrome drivers suggest that it > > > has plenty of spare capacity. Therefore, would a 6K also do the job? > > > The advantage of the 6K is that it is fanless. Silent operation is > > > important - the box will replace a silent Pace dual tuner PVR. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Phil > > > _______________________________________________ > > > mythtv-users mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
