Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:00:27 -0800 From: George Hartzell <hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com> To: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, hartzell@alerce.com, =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Building new Athlon AMD64 Socket 939 or 940 machine Message-ID: <17293.16379.72758.842524@satchel.alerce.com> In-Reply-To: <20051129211059.A79771@cons.org> References: <61FBEC57-424E-450F-A775-10E1F5E8DF92@cian.ws> <20051127215510.A17131@cons.org> <1133190443.41553.18.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <438B1F90.3090708@FreeBSD.org> <1133196263.41553.54.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <20051128130516.A36114@cons.org> <1133271434.46168.9.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <20051129120243.B64864@cons.org> <17292.64661.162502.12034@satchel.alerce.com> <20051129211059.A79771@cons.org>
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Martin Cracauer writes: > [...] > I'm no sure I recommend shuttles. They tend to be loud. Users buying > shuttles usually want small *and* quiet and don't realize both are > mutally exclusive and they have to pick one or the other (or a > Pentium-M system). If you want it for transportability, fine, but > don't expect a nice living room citizen. > People (ok, Matthew...) seem to think that it's a neat machine, and is quieter than previous Shuttles. http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2005-11/msg00027.html I'm not looking for a silent pc (aka fanless mini-itx board, etc...), but I'm hoping that with a fanless AGP board and a slow quiet disk I might end up with a reasonably snappy (beat a 1GHz Celeron...) desktop work machine. Matthew was talking about the SN95G5. Shuttle has a couple of other socket 939 systems, but I'm unfamiliar w/ the chipsets they use and that worries me. Could one build a reasonably quiet office machine around the DFI board you referenced (I'm not sure I can buy something called "LanParty"...). Crazy, or should I be cautious, or any other thoughts??? Thanks, g.
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