<p>Now computers tend to be more and more silent, even servers (have a look at latest Dell ones) become noiseless. I had a quite peacefull <a class="reference" href="http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=3#2699">mini-computer</a> (EPIA M9000 + Cubid 2699) during more than one year, but it wasn't really fanless (1 8mm noisy fan, 2 short-life 8mm case-fans), though quieter than desktop-computers ... I'm not the only one to complain about that computer, some people put Zalmann heatsink on the CPU, but personnaly i wasn't convinced by that option. And it was time to bring a wind of change out there :-)</p> <p>So i bought a <strong>real</strong> fanless computer which looks very <a class="reference" href="http://base-art.net/photos/miniPc/">eye-candy</a> no ?</p> <ul class="simple"> <li>MV823A motherboard</li> <li>VIA C3 1Ghz</li> <li>512 MB RAM</li> <li>VIA CLE266 graphic chipset</li> <li>S-Video input and output</li> <li>Weight about 2 Kilos (passive cooling has a price ?)</li> <li>2''5 20Gb HDD</li> </ul> <p>Of course 20Gb is not enough when one wants to store and play his huge music library so i put a 3''5 big HDD (tough not as silent as i would) in a FireWire/USB2 combo box, connected to the brand new machine. Linux runs fine on it, once patches from <a class="reference" href="http://www.epiawiki.org/">EPIAWiki</a> are applied on the kernel.</p> <p>Well now the only annoying thing with the machine is that i tend to forget to shut it off since i can't really hear it without putting my ears on it :) Well yeah, there is a nice blue LED lighted when the machine is on, it's the only normal-human proof.</p> http://base-art.net/Articles/24/ 2004-11-24T16:43:19.000002+02:00 http://base-art.net/Comments/58/ Nick <a class="reference" href="http://linitx.com/index.php?cPath=14">http://linitx.com/index.php?cPath=14</a> is the index page for all NEO and TWISTER systems we stock at <a class="reference" href="http://linitx.com">http://linitx.com</a>. 2004-11-23T14:24:50.000001+02:00 http://base-art.net/Comments/57/ phil <p>Look at <a class="reference" href="http://linitx.com/product_info.php?products_id=491">http://linitx.com/product_info.php?products_id=491</a> for more informations .. Though the box on this page is taller than mine (so that you can plug a PCI device in). The box i have is too small ...</p> <p>But search on google about &quot;MV823A VIA&quot; and you may find moree informations. In my case, i contacted a french reseller (diabox.com)</p> 2004-11-23T13:21:33.000001+02:00 http://base-art.net/Comments/56/ Martin <p>What is the brand/model ? it looks super cool(pun intended)</p> <p>Martin</p>