Re: diskless box: fanless too ?

["Jens B. Jorgensen" <jjorgens@bdsinc.com>]

I would think you could do it if you used once of those heat sinks which have a
peltier junction on the bottom. I don't know if anyone's tried this of course but I do
know such heat sinks exist (I saw and felt one a Comdex last year and boy was it
cold!)

"G. Crimp" wrote:

> I have been asked to help someone learn about Linux.  So far, I have
> installed Linux on an existing box.  I must also give advice on new
> hardware.  One of the concerns this person has, is not having anything
> spinning in his office.  He currently uses a diskless sparc station, which
> is apparently also fanless since it is very very quiet.
>
> Does anyone know if the same is possible in the ix86 architechture ?  I know
> I could set him up with a diskless box booting off a server in another room,
> but could that diskless box also have a fanless powersupply ?  I figure the
> cpu would still need its fan.  Anyone think that the absence of a fan in a
> diskless box would cause heating problems ??
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gerald
>
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