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- Wed Apr 11, 2012 10:32 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Custom Cases for Silence
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5055
Re: Custom Cases for Silence
I'm also in the process of building something silent (and all custom made). Htpc based on mini-itx and i3-2120T. System will be without fans and use the case as cooling. It will be quite small (98x186x232 mm). For cad-image see below (seen from the side, with the slot-in bluray visible). http://www....
- Fri Nov 04, 2011 11:21 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: HDPLEX H3.SODD Fanless Mini-ITX Media Case
- Replies: 49
- Views: 39267
Re: HDPLEX H3.SODD Fanless Mini-ITX Media Case
On the specs the i3 2120 is stated to have a tdp of 65 w. In your test, on full load, system power is listed as 60 w???
Could it be that you are using i3 2120 T (tdp of 35 w) in this test? Or am I missing something?
Could it be that you are using i3 2120 T (tdp of 35 w) in this test? Or am I missing something?
- Mon Jan 18, 2010 10:52 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Silent Clusters
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5853
Would be nice to see a close up picture of how the motherboard is bolted to the heatsink. We have used AMD, and on those mainboards (don't know if it is the same for Intel) the heatsink is originally attached through a frame surrounding the CPU on the mainboard. This frame is attached to the mainbo...
- Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:41 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Silent Clusters
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5853
Silent Clusters
Hi,
have been into silent computing and fan less some time. Here is an article about extending the concepts to a very small cluster:
www.clustermonkey.net//content/view/273/1
have been into silent computing and fan less some time. Here is an article about extending the concepts to a very small cluster:
www.clustermonkey.net//content/view/273/1
- Fri Aug 28, 2009 4:50 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Small and silent
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8035
Is this ur personal system, or a customers? The first one I actually sold to a friend. The second one was the result of an inquiry of a firm needing a silent "appliance computer" (and they didn't want to be restricted to a vertical placement of the computer). But since it is a prototype and since I...
- Fri Aug 28, 2009 4:46 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Small and silent
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8035
I'm very curious to know more about the the transfer mechanism to the cooling wall. I can think of a few ways it might be achieved, but I'm wondering how involved (read: expensive) the method is here. Regardless, that's genius. I can think of a lot of people (myself included) who'd enjoy a PC with ...
- Tue Aug 04, 2009 2:09 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Small and silent
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8035
Re: Size
Regarding the second one, is it just one fan in the system? So there is no fan explicitly cooling the CPU? That is right, only one fan in the system, a 1500 rpm Nexus. I wanted to make the box as thin as possible, and I soon realized that it would be difficult if I were to use a heat sink and fan o...
- Wed Jul 29, 2009 2:26 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Small and silent
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8035
Looks interesting! But it's kind of hard to see from the pictures, exactly what is going on there. So the entire side is basically a heat sink connected to the CPU/GPU?? The cpu is connected to the side wall. It is connected via a solid piece of aluminum (in the same way as has been described on th...
- Tue Jul 28, 2009 11:38 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Small and silent
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8035
Small and silent
Have been working on silent computing for quite some time now. Mostly fanless. Our best model this far can be viewed here http://www.renget.se/bilder/slask.jpg . It uses a 45 W athlon, and is of dimensions 30x28x10 cm. While under stress CPU-temp lands at around 55 C. Due to space constraints only a...
- Fri Jul 10, 2009 11:03 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: ZERO MOVING PARTS??? My new HTPC wants to be 100% silent!!!
- Replies: 32
- Views: 32674
- Sun Jul 05, 2009 12:08 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: ZERO MOVING PARTS??? My new HTPC wants to be 100% silent!!!
- Replies: 32
- Views: 32674
Heat sink
I have made a htpc of similar dimensions (2.5 disk instead of a ssd). Case was custom built, and I used one of the sides as heat sink. Cpu was an undervolted 65 W AMD. This system works, with decent temperatures, but I would GUESS that it would be a lot more difficult (impossible?) with a case of th...
- Thu Oct 09, 2008 7:18 pm
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: Fanless solution..?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 11418
Clearly you either are a very skilled system builder, have great ambient conditions, or both. Neither I would say. But I believe the design principles we are following are good (new?). Have also built a small cluster along the same lines (at the moment just four CPUs). Also fanless. Maybe fanless w...
- Thu Oct 09, 2008 1:40 am
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: Fanless solution..?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 11418
at least one thing to consider is that you will decrease the lifetime of components and for no measurable or detectable improvement in noise level Would 50 C (full load, around 20 in the room) at the CPU decrease the life time of it? Should also have mentioned that we (of course?) use "home made" c...
- Thu Oct 09, 2008 12:48 am
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: Fanless solution..?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 11418
A challenge not worth it if all you are after is silence and you have room for a setup that can accommodate fans. What do you mean by this? If the system works equally well as one with fans and if it is not more expensive then why shouldn't it be "worth it"? Should mention that we use internal grap...
- Wed Oct 08, 2008 8:20 pm
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: Fanless solution..?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 11418
Fanless is not worth the trouble, if your criterion is silence. If you are doing it for the extreme challenge, fine, but if you just want silence all you need is low speed fans. This seems to be the common wisdom, but has it been tested? I would think the noise would "add up"? Maybe it is true if y...
- Sun May 18, 2008 8:54 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: No fans
- Replies: 28
- Views: 16299
running fanless is pointless. In my HTPC I only have one 120mm fan at 750RPM running and everything is cool. CPU gets to 40 degrees under load, HDD at 30s. Room temp 20 degrees. As a comparison, when I tried fanless. CPU 50+, HDD 40+. Turning of the fans, yes, probably not a good idea. But that doe...
- Sat May 17, 2008 11:22 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: No fans
- Replies: 28
- Views: 16299
Noice of hard drive
OK, so I guess many of you will start looking at faness setups when solid state memory are are going to be used instead of hard drives? Have been running fanless for many years now, and while it is true that HD is "noiisy" there is absolutely no drawback in running fanless IF system is giving you th...
- Sun Dec 02, 2007 5:11 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Asus M2A-VM HDMI: Ideal AM2 mATX motherboard?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 41712
- Wed Nov 28, 2007 4:07 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: ASUS M2NPV-VM - hot GeForce 6150 northbridge
- Replies: 64
- Views: 48860
Re: Computer periodically shuts down suddenly
Any advice on how I could go about solving this problem? I don't want to spend a lot of money on rigging larger heatsinks on the NB if that is not the real problem. Thanks for your help. Just maybe the board is reporting wrong temperatures? No idea if it would help, but have you considered upgradin...
- Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:11 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Asus M2A-VM HDMI: Ideal AM2 mATX motherboard?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 41712
- Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:54 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Asus M2A-VM HDMI: Ideal AM2 mATX motherboard?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 41712
Re: Temperature in bios
What's the problem? I don't see a problem. You cannot expect the mb/cpu monitor to give the same temp reading as a physical probe atop the heatspreader. No way the latter can be positioned correctly, esp. if you have anything mounted atop. The edge temp will be much lower than the center of the hea...
- Mon Nov 26, 2007 12:18 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Asus M2A-VM HDMI: Ideal AM2 mATX motherboard?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 41712
Temperature in bios
I have this board, using it in a home made case with a heat pipe solution (from mcubed) to cool th cpu. I really don't know if I have made something stupid or if the bios reading of temperature is wrong. Have run several different test cases, e.g., in one underclocked run I measured around 40 C at t...
- Tue Nov 20, 2007 1:13 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: ASUS M2NPV-VM - hot GeForce 6150 northbridge
- Replies: 64
- Views: 48860
Measurements in bios
Hi all, I have the same motherboard, M2A-VM HDMI, and to me it seems the temperature measured in bios does not correspond to the CPU, but more likely to the Northbridge. I have measured just under 40 C (stress --cpu 2) at the heat spreader on top of the cpu, while at the same time the cpu temp in bi...
- Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:21 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Linux Undervolting, any news?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 25691
- Wed Sep 26, 2007 1:46 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Preferred direction on heat pipes
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4459
a few thoughts from a non-heatpipe-expert Me neither. Did something really stupid, which I think explains the behavior I saw. The heat pipes I bought (Mcubed) are supposed to be attached via heat spreaders on top of a block of copper at the CPU. I thought I could do it without the block, and instea...
- Mon Sep 24, 2007 6:21 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Preferred direction on heat pipes
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4459
- Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:39 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Preferred direction on heat pipes
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4459
- Sun Sep 23, 2007 7:44 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Preferred direction on heat pipes
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4459
Hi, thanks, The pipes are positioned so that the cold side is above the hot one (which, if it matters, should be "a good thing"). However, the pipes I bought are L-shaped, with one leg longer than the other, so when I was referring to direction I was more wondering if the internal structure of the h...
- Sun Sep 23, 2007 6:57 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Preferred direction on heat pipes
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4459
Preferred direction on heat pipes
Hi, Recently bought heat pipes from mcubed (Borg HPC). For various reasons (better fit to the case I'm building) I mounted them in the "wrong" direction (i.e., the end which are supposed to go on the cpu was put on the "cool" side, and vice versa ...). In this case the cool side is an aluminum, finn...
- Wed Jun 20, 2007 12:55 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Low airflow optimized heatsink
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2462
Low airflow optimized heatsink
Hi there, I have a few questions I was wondering if someone could help me with. Goal is to build a silent htpc system, and initially I will use a analog tv-card (Hauppauge pvr150), and resolution will not be high, so playback is not going to stress the cpu (however, later on I might go for high reso...