I'm building the follwing 'quiet' system and need advice:
Sonata II (using stock case, ps, and fan)
Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra-9 Mobo (use stock Northbridge heatsink)
AMD 64 3200+ Venice (use stock retail box heatsink/fan)
Corsair Valueselect CAS3 2x1gb
Vantec 'Iceberg' Aluminum Ram Heat Spreaders
Seagate 80GB SATA Boot Drive
Seagate 400GB SATA File Server Drive
Gigabyte Nvidia 6600GT 128MB PCI-Express Fanless (GV-NX66T128VP)
NEC 3540A DVD+/-RW DL
Sony Floppy Drive
Linux Fedora Core 4
The computer will primarily be running 'headless'
as a fileserver. CPU and Video loads will be very low,
with most of the activity coming from the 400 GB File Server
hard drive, which will run pretty continuously. I will
not be underclocking or overclocking the system.
Secondary function will be 'eventually' adding HTPC functionality
with MythTV by adding a PVR-250/350 card and/or HD-3000 HDTV Tuner Card,
thus the need for the high end video card.
Questions are:
1) What is the expected power dissipation running in the above two
scenarios?
2) What sort of additional cooling might be necessary running under
the above two scenarios? Right now, the plan is to use stock sonata fan
in back, stock ps fan, stock retail cpu fan/heatsink, stock northbridge heatsink,
and 'possibly' use the sonata ii air duct if it will fit in this system.
The computer will be in a poorly ventilited room, though I don't expect
ambient temperatures to get over 95F in the summer.
3) I'm mostly concerned about the video card. I'm hoping it will stay
cool and not take too much current running idle. Any ideas
what sort of current draw/heat there will from it running idle?
Any Linux gurus know if it's possible to 'Sleep' the card under Linux?
I really like this card for it's superior HDTV output capabilities,
even though it will 'rarely' get taxed to it's limits.
Thanks
PS. As long as I'm posting, I want to also thank this forum and it's archives for helping
me identify and fix with a firmware update a 'meowing' hitachi hdd.
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