From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 14 07:06:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AD7337B401 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 07:06:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (gemini.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.246.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEC6C43FDD for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 07:06:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de) Received: from gmx.de (lilith.wh-wurm.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5EE6ap8001959 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 16:06:36 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <3EEB2BDA.3040705@gmx.de> Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 16:06:18 +0200 From: Siegbert Baude User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030611 Thunderbird/0.1a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20030610220919.41E1F5D04@ptavv.es.net> <200306121915.h5CJFGSL083703@apollo.backplane.com> <3EE8D5EB.5030308@sliderule.demon.co.uk> <200306122247.32026.wes@softweyr.com> <200306130555.h5D5td1j086033@apollo.backplane.com> <87isr9n8dw.fsf@Pectopah.shenton.org> In-Reply-To: <87isr9n8dw.fsf@Pectopah.shenton.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DCC-servers-Metrics: gemini 1049; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 Subject: Re: Via EPIA Mini-ITX motherboard X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 14:06:39 -0000 Hi Chris and Matthew, >> Yes. I use it to boot my kitchen and office workstations. >> >> > >Ditto here -- kitchen from rack system in the basement. >Computers in the kitchen are good, quiet is good :-) > > Are your machines completely diskless then? Which kind of PSU do you use then? Some of these low-power external ones? I really would like to get rid of every fan in such an EPIA machine. Both because of the sound and the possible failure source. With no mechanical parts left inside the computer, it should also be robust enough, to be tossen around in the kitchen by children. Another possible use would be as multimedia centre in the living room, but I suspect you would need the 1GHz version then (or what about the newer chipsets? They should have some hardware acceleration to make life easuer for the processor?). Is it possible to pasive cool this one, if there is no additional heat source like a harddisk or PSU in the case? Thanks for sharing your experience here. Ciao Siegbert