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Fanless HTPC

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bookman

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Has anyone built a fanless HTPC? I am looking at building one, ideally with a 2.8 GH P4, and a Radeon 9600 AIW. Has anyone tried this? If so, what case, power supply, and cooling solutions did you use?

Thanks for the help!
 
I don't think you can build a fanless htpc unless you get it pre-built with those components. Search for Hush atx. I suppose you could you the tnn500a but its 999 dollars and hasn't been released.
 
Originally posted by: pelikan
The only way to go fanless with that cpu is with watercooling. Are you open to that option?
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I forgot about the water cooling option (although there are fans on the radiator), but as I said Hush ATX makes completely fanless pc.
 
Thanks for the input. I saw the Hush Technologies solution, and it is very impressive, but I would like to have 2 external 5.25 inch bays. I have sent them an email asking if they would have a 2 external drive bay solution, but have not heard back yet. As an alternative to zero noise, I am open to solutions where the total noise does not exceed 25-30 dBa. I would just hate to have a quiet section in a great movie be marred by the whirring of a fan. On a separate train, has anyone heard if the Pentium M will be offered for desktops? Or is Intel's marketing machine keeping it for laptops only? I understand it and its chipset have great thermal characteristics.
 
Originally posted by: bookman
Thanks for the input. I saw the Hush Technologies solution, and it is very impressive, but I would like to have 2 external 5.25 inch bays. I have sent them an email asking if they would have a 2 external drive bay solution, but have not heard back yet. As an alternative to zero noise, I am open to solutions where the total noise does not exceed 25-30 dBa. I would just hate to have a quiet section in a great movie be marred by the whirring of a fan. On a separate train, has anyone heard if the Pentium M will be offered for desktops? Or is Intel's marketing machine keeping it for laptops only? I understand it and its chipset have great thermal characteristics.
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You can easily build a machine you can't hear from the listening position without sacrificing all airflow. Take some pointers from Yoshi @ TechTV and read up at Silent PC Review.
 
Originally posted by: PliotronX
Originally posted by: bookman
Thanks for the input. I saw the Hush Technologies solution, and it is very impressive, but I would like to have 2 external 5.25 inch bays. I have sent them an email asking if they would have a 2 external drive bay solution, but have not heard back yet. As an alternative to zero noise, I am open to solutions where the total noise does not exceed 25-30 dBa. I would just hate to have a quiet section in a great movie be marred by the whirring of a fan. On a separate train, has anyone heard if the Pentium M will be offered for desktops? Or is Intel's marketing machine keeping it for laptops only? I understand it and its chipset have great thermal characteristics.
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You can easily build a machine you can't hear from the listening position without sacrificing all airflow. Take some pointers from Yoshi @ TechTV and read up at Silent PC Review.
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Yeah, going fanless doesn't make it any quieter. Zalman's CPU cooler is nearly silent with your ear next to it, much less sealed up in a case on a home theater shelf. You can build a silentPC cheap, but as you can see fanless is very expensive.
 
The best option as far as price/vs quiet is concerned would just be to build a HTPC using very quiet Low output fans... something like panaflows or maybe something w/ a thermal switch???
 
you could probably get away with a tualtin based celeron and an sk6, the tualtin clereon run at like 1.45V i think and they run really cold
 
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