Silent Tualatin and quiet Athlon, the new duo.

[FishTankX]

Tualatin 1.06-S underclocked to 533 (Via an adapter)
SK6
BX133-RAID (As if this mobo isn't famous enough..)
768MB of RAM via 256X4
Same Sound card as silent Athlon(Delta44), PCI G200
MicroATX 180watt powersupply modded to be fanless
Same BaracudaATAIV shutdown after 3 min
RAM drive(Seperate PCI card) with 1 gig of RAM (Will knock the crap outa a Cheeta X15-36LP with a seek time of 7NS, not MS, NS)
A special open air case designed to let the powersupply have proper ventilation and still protect the system consisting of a box type enclosure except the top has perferated holes in it. Not a single fan. Not a one. And the harddisk is off when recording. Truly silent. I call it the Silent Tualatin.
GigE card

Okay okay, now this is just a dumb terminal. I'm going to have a direct GigE connection to this seperate system
(Slightly modified silent Athlon)
(Which won't be on while recording)
300 watt powersupply with Pabst 15DB fan.
Gig E card

AthlonXP 2100+ and a PAL8045 with 15DB pabst

The AthlonXP 2100+ is running at 1.4GHZ(AthlonXP 1600+ spec) 1.55V vcore. 133MHZ FSB.

Baracuda ATAIV. 80GB

KG7 with 2 gigs of RAM

4X 512MB registered DDR configuration

800 megs of RAM for the operating system (2K professional)
1200 megabyte RAM drive which is going to be used for recording seeing during recording the Baracuda is going to idle...

G450DH with 2 mointors

Audiophile 2496

All of this is going in a 4 feet by 4 feet by 4 feet box with sound dampening foam on all sides with holes drilled for cables and the powersupply fan (This is literally going to be a borg cube case) . It will double as a computer desk. Ontop of all of this will be twin 80MM 15DB pabsts


Note:Both computers have RAMDRIVEs, and the GigE connections between them means that transfer rates will be around 130MB/s which means that transfering data between the two will take nearly no time at all...


Sharkkeeper, and others, did I finally get it right this time?

 

[oldfart]

<< Tualatin 1.06-S underclocked to 533 (Via an adapter) >>

Do you mean a PIII-S 512K cache chip? They are available in 1.13, 1.26, 1.40 versions. A Tually Celeron will also do for less $$
Powerleap? Can you undervolt with this?


<< underclocked to 533 (Via an adapter) SK6 >>

I think you could run fanless with the large HS, undervolt to ~ 1.2 Vcore, with no underclock.


<< RAM drive(Seperate PCI card) with 1 gig of RAM ( >>


If you are using a PCI Ramdrive, why not use an 815e mobo? ABIT ST6 will allow undervolting and underclocking.

 

[FishTankX]

Okay, minor revision. Yes, PIII-S is the 512K cache variant, it'll run at 566 (1.13@66FSB) and I guess since i'm using a PCI ramdrive I might as well use the ST6...

I'm afraid to keep the PIII-S running to high because it'll be in a case with a fanless powersupply putting out a measly 180/150 watts and I don't know if the PS can handle the load.

I gave up on the silent Athlon because everyone seems to hate the idea and I think teaching my friend how to mess with the multipliers is a bit risky, and a 24/7 1733 sollution would ultimatley be superior, if a bit expensive.

Thanks for all the comments, Oldfart.

 

[BD231]

If you put the PIII-S at 66mhz fsb I would imagine fanless cooling is easy. I had an ST6 and PIII-S and lowering the voltage DRASTICALLY reduces the temp for some reason.

 

[FishTankX]

Yep, key here BDog though, isn't the CPU's temperature. It's the powersupply's.

I hope a de-cased 180watt powersupply will be able to run fanless.

 

[BD231]

Yep, key here BDog though, isn't the CPU's temperature. It's the powersupply's.

I hope a de-cased 180watt powersupply will be able to run fanless.


Papst 12dba fan, in-audible. PSU's get REALLY hot. Decased, maybe, if it's outside your actual case so the heat has somewhere to go.

 

[oldfart]

I think you are on the right track (no pun intended). I don't think you will need to underclock the PIII-S that far, if at all. They run VERY cool, and use little power. I also think the small PS will be enough. I had a PIII-S 1.26 that would run ~ 1.225 Vcore with no underclock. I ran it fanless for awhile just screwing around. It would run quite a long time without hardly getting warm. Set it up and try it out. Try different settings to see what works. That PS should have no problem handling it.

 

[FishTankX]

BDog:15DB is too loud for a recording studio. It needs to be completly fanless. 180 watts, or if that doesn't work, 150 watts, should work. But i'm going to be taking off it's case and leaving it in a relativley large (2X2X2 feet) case with the CPU and stuff and since I underclock it pretty far (Old fart:With a powersupply *AND* CPU this thing will get pretty warm.. so i'm underclocking that far for the sake of ambient temps and complications with the powersupply..) all by itself and route the power cables and Mic cables and make this completly fanless. I think 150 watts will do it, since the harddisk is mostly gonna be off, the CPU will probably only draw 10 watts or so, seeing i'm gonna undervolt it as far as she'll go (Hope I can hit 1.2Volts, that would mean that I would be able to decrease the CPU's heatoutput to around 10 watts, which the powersupply should handle with impunity) and the only other stuff is a RAMDRIVE and a 450DH which isn't the most powerhungry videocard around. If that doesn't work out, i'm gonna switch to a 150watt powersupply (As in, if the heat doesn't work out) and just ditch the harddisk and have it boot from LAN (I can use a dummy server somewhere like a remote server on the network) and just make this a diskless dummy terminal. I hope though, that the 180/150 watt powersupply will run without incident without a fan and handle the load of the harddrive, CPU, 450DH, and the sound card and RAMDISK. Because that's my ultimate goal. Either that, or I could 7 volt the Pabst fan and get it rotating so slow it'd probably only put out 9DB or so and then put it into a sound deadening enclosure like the Quiet Athlon machine (BDog, Oldfart, do you think the quiet Athlon with it's quad 15DB fans will be quiet enough to be unnoticed by the human ear?) and that could probably have a low enough noise floor, although it would color the recordings a bit. My goal is a completly fanless system, and I think this is it. Just have to wait a while until I can test all of this out..

Good thing SDRAM is so cheap.