Fan-free CPUs?

[Daovonnaex]

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<< PPC chips generally run without fans. >>


expensive, proprietary, and by default come with a crap OS and a one-button mouse
sun's come with 3-button mice - they must be 3x better >>

Crap OS? I suppose windows is the king of originality and stability, no? But I digress, a PPC setup would be good, but the newer ones have far more processing power than you need. I recommend the Transmeta Crusoe. By the way, does anyone know how many operations per clock cycle the Crusoe does?
By the way, while a Crusoe wouldn't work in this (Cyrix would though), the Shuttle SV24 sounds like something for you. Hot Hardware has a fine review of it (much, much better than Anandtech's "review" of it).

 

[sparks]

I slapped a fanless Alpha 8045 on a 1GHz TBird and I am running Seti@home 24/7. The PSU fan sits perfectly to the side of the cpu socket and it is adequate for my cooling purposes.

 

[Daovonnaex]

<< I slapped a fanless Alpha 8045 on a 1GHz TBird and I am running Seti@home 24/7. The PSU fan sits perfectly to the side of the cpu socket and it is adequate for my cooling purposes. >>

TBird without a fan? And it isn't burning?

 

[Damascus]

Get a used 486 or Pentium MMX and put it in a box with other quiet components.

You people recommending that Sofa go and get gouged by Intel by purchasing
a P3/P4 for routing duties are crazy and have _way_ too much money to throw
around. Hey! Throw some this way!

About PPC coming with a crap OS; you do with it what you would do with a
computer from any major builder, you replace the crap default OS with Linux.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

<< Get a used 486 or Pentium MMX and put it in a box with other quiet components.

You people recommending that Sofa go and get gouged by Intel by purchasing
a P3/P4 for routing duties are crazy and have _way_ too much money to throw
around. Hey! Throw some this way! >>



thats exactly what i was thinking. anyone recommending a p3/4/tualatin for a router/file server (running linux, no less) are absolutely insane.

get a pentium or a pentium 2 or a celeron. get a big heatsink and try to undervolt some, or get a silent 120mm fan for it.

that is more than you will ever need for this task.

btw, welcome to anandtech

 

[thomsbrain]

<< Get an old CuMine Celly 533 - it only puts out something like 15W and can be run just fine with a big honkin' heatsink on it. Sounds like you don't need too much power... >>



I have a 566@850 with a Globalwin FOP-32 that doesn't need a fan, even though it's overclocked. temps never go above 45C

 

[OTR]

for routing, an old fanless laptop could work. For file serving, you may need more disk space than an old laptop can provide.

 

[palominon00b]

I have an amd k6-2 box that is dead silent .. it has a psu and cpu fan but neiter makes a noise