[Gllug] pervasive computing - everything crashes

[Mike Brodbelt]

On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 16:55 +0000, John Winters wrote:

> IME the fastest silent Mini-ITX (600 MHz) isn't quite powerful enough to
> display DVB-T streams, even with the hardware acceleration on the video
> output.  They can manage analogue TV but not DVB-T.  The result is
> intermittent sound which makes them unusable.
> 
> I find the non-silent Mini-ITX options unsuitable because you have a
> very small fan whizzing round which makes for a particularly pervasive
> noise.
> 
> I'm still trying to find a good option for a silent (disk-less) PVR
> playback box (recording and storage being handled by a server elsewhere
> in the house).

Hush do the best stuff I've seen, though it's pricey. I think you can
get the 1Ghz fanless boards to fit Hush cases, though it may well be
unnecessary, given the case quality.

Have a look at http://www.hushtest.de/hushshop/shop/index.html for
details on their Mini-ITX stuff. The chassis is up to 13mm thick solid
Aluminium, and is basically one huge heat-sink. If you're truly
dedicated to complete noiselessness they do an ITX extended model with a
1.4Ghz fanless mobile P4, fanless PSU, and heatpipe internal cooling.
The only moving think would be a 7200 rpm drive, and I very much doubt
you'd hear it through a 13mm thick metal chassis (the system weighs in
at about 8 kilos). Pretty much the only reason not to buy one is
price...

Mike


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