A Truly Silent Desktop PC

boris writes "The first in a series of turnkey systems seem to be coming through the fence from Hush Technologies. The systems weigh in a little expensive but look to be incredible quality. This is according to the review over at HEXUS.net who have a heap of photos up of the unit as well as an article. Is this finally the step to having a true PC in every living room? HTPC here we come!" These EPIAs are everywhere now; we mentioned the M-100 the other day; less-expensive ready-built systems (in various configurations) are available from SolarPC, too.

Comments

Re:As far as silent systems go, you can't beat Del

[addaon]

No, the Dell Precision workstations are not "completely silent." They may be stunningly quiet; I don't know, I've never heard one. But "completely silent" is different. It doesn't mean that there's minimal sound, or that the sound is well muffled. It means that no sound is being generated. I have a stack of computers sitting around... the only two that approach "completely silent" are an iBook (using ramdisk, fan off, optical drive not in use) and epia (solid state hard disk, but the damn switching power supply makes an almost-audible noise).

I appreciate that for most people "damn quiet" is good enough. Heck, even for me it is. But "completely silent" is an absolute, and it should be used that way.

Great dorm pc

[Billly Gates]

If you need a 24/7 web or quake server but your roomate will complain look no further. This is a great pc for this market.

Re:Speed Issue

[mccalli]

The most significant issue with this board is that it is based on the slightly older V series boards, rather than the new M series.

Nope, this model is based on the M board, as can by seen from the Buy Now link.

Cheers,
Ian

Want CPU power at low wattage? Get creative folks

[default luser]

Remember this little thing called the Tualatin? The 800MHz version topped out at 12w, and could run circles around even a 1GHz C3, not to mention the sickly EPIA.

Go and buy a Tualatin Celeron ( they're up in the 1.3 or 1.4 GHz range, be sure you get one with 133MHz bus ) and clock it down to 66MHz bus. You'll stil have a machine capable of decoding DVD in software ( a Celeron 400 could do this without breaking a sweat ), and it can be fanless.

What is the world coming to that some company can pass off a crappy CPU with no OOOE and a half-speed FPU as "efficient"? Christ, if you pumped up the speed of the C3 such that the power it used was the same as a Pentium IV, it would still get it's ass handed to it performancewise.

IT IS JUST A WINCHIP FOLKS. Don't be fooled by the smoke and mirrors.