RE: quiet dual dual-core opteron
I have put a few together for engineers where I work. The low power single
core units were expensive, but made a huge difference. I used a Quiet PC
power supply and case fan, a large Chenbro tower case, and two of the Zalman
7000 (?) CPU sinks. Almost silent except for, yes, the SCSI drive noise. I
will probably be doing a few dual core units in the next month and I will be
using the new Zalman 9000-something cooler and essentially the same setup.
I can list the specific part numbers later today if anyone is curious, but
the low noise case fan, power supply, and CPU sinks were key, and the low
power (HE, I think) CPUs made all of that possible by not forcing me to move
a ton of air.
Brendan Todd Corkery
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Brook [mailto:paul@codesourcery.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 7:57 AM
To: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
Cc: Peter A. H. Peterson
Subject: Re: quiet dual dual-core opteron
> Does anyone have experience with a working dual, dual-core opteron
> system that is less than full-tower size and relatively quiet? Or even
> a quiet-but-full-tower machine?
I've got a largeish EATX thermaltake xaser3 case (next size up from standard
midi towers), Tagan PSU, Zalman CPU coolers and a Tyan S2885 motherboard
(though the S2895 is probably a better bet for new systems).
The CPU fans are temperature controlled by the motherboard (and rarely get
above 50% speed) and the case fans are on a fixed 40% speed controller.
It's not totally silent, but it is quiet even under heavy load. Like a low
purr rather than the roar generated by most PCs. The noisiest bit is the
harddrives clicking when accesses.
Paul
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