[mythtv-users] Current SFF Frontend of choice

[Martin Moores]

On 24 February 2012 04:01, Matt Garman <matthew.garman at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> They could be.  Mine is not; the only fan is the CPU fan, which can
> only be heard if you put your ear right up to the case.  I might be
> able to get away without a fan using a "T" series CPU (e.g. i3-2100T).
>  Or, if I used a bigger case I could then use a massive heatsink and
> go fanless (I have mine stuffed in a Habey EMC-800B case).
>
> You can have silence without being fanless.  But you can easily go
> fanless if you give up on size (big case + monster heatsink), or if
> you spend the big bucks on one of those fancy cases that act as a
> giant heatsink.  But you can get the best of both worlds (small, low
> price) if you're willing to have a single, slow-moving fan---and you
> still get silence.
>

Thanks all for the replies, this gives me something to go off.  Building my
own would be more fun for sure!

Have seen a lot of messages on here about the Intel stuff over using
nVidia, thanks for the tips on that.

Cheers

Martin
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