Hi<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/3/4 John Drescher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drescherjm@gmail.com">drescherjm@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The $300 device I was talking about would have to be no louder than a<br>
dvd player is while spinning up playing a movie. Being that I have<br>
built a few hundred computers in my lifetime this is not the most<br>
difficult part.<br>
<font color="#888888"></font></blockquote><div><br>I'd love to know what configuration you would use that for $300 would be perfectly silent and would fit under a TV.<br><br>I bought a mini last July but thanks to the crappy intel onboard video I quickly stopped using it as a mythtv frontend.<br>
<br>I since replaced it with a PC ; got what was supposed to be one of the quietest power supply (Seasonic S12+) , along a very silent case (Antec Media Fusion). I removed all the fan only to use a big CPU cooler (Noctua NH-C12P)... A silent video card (9400GT).<br>
<br>That adds up to way more than $300 ; and it is still nowhere as quiet as my previous mini ! (though I can't hear it when the TV is running)<br><br>Jean-Yves<br></div></div><br>