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Fanless Media Center Box

Posted by timothy on from the fins-are-always-cool dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I didn't know that Hush Technologies made Media Center PCs, but they do. Here's a review of one of those beautiful fanless machines running media center 2005. Could this be the perfect media center box?" It's certainly perfectly expensive.

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  1. I didn't know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Huckster: I didn't know that Hush Technologies made Media Center PCs, but they do.

    Country Rube: Then why is your picture on the case?

    Cue getaway music...

  2. This is certainly pretty... by Suburbanpride · · Score: 5, Funny

    but you can save yourslef some money and do what I do. Turn up the volume on my reciever loud enoguh so you can't hear the fans, or the wife complaining.

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  3. Re:1,791.38 GBP by cliveholloway · · Score: 5, Insightful

    = 3,389.61 USD

    Note that's the price today. Considering the way the dollar's going, here's a handy chart to help you through the next 6 months:

    Jan 2005 => 3,689.35 USD
    Feb 2005 => 3,745.22 USD
    Mar 2005 => 3,823.43 USD
    Apr 2005 => 3,897.01 USD
    May 2005 => 3,925.23 USD
    Jun 2005 => 3,990.45 USD

    Oh, small caveat. The above assumes that Russia doesn't start selling its oil in Euros. If that happens, all bets are off :)

    cLive ;-)

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  4. Re:Wife...Slashdot...does not compute by Suburbanpride · · Score: 5, Interesting
    what's wrong with a glass door in front of the PC

    Heat is the problem, the reason why there are fans is that heat needs to escape and glass is an insulator, not a conductor.

    My 500 watt reciever has a heat sink thats about 4x10x4, and has a fan that turns on a very high tempertures, which it usaul only reaches when it is cranked up for an extended period of time.
    What I'd really like to see is a volume controled fan controler. When the movie gets quiet, the fans slow down and then crank back up when it gets loud again.

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  5. Different processor for heat requirements? by Atmchicago · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They mention it passively cools a 2.8ghz pentium 4. Would an AMD or a Centrino processor not be a better option? (granted of course the centrino-desktop mobos just came out, it wouldn't have been possible, but the AMD certainly would). Even an AMD64 laptop processor would do fine.

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