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How Neuros Built Their Nearly Silent HTPC

Posted by timothy on from the more-power-than-my-best-machine dept.

JoeBorn writes "Neuros has a blog posting discussing how they created their latest 'thin' HTPC to be nearly silent. Instead of using a net-top architecture (Atom or the like) they used a full 2.7GHz CPU and put their effort into making that nearly silent. The article talks about their efforts on fan selection, placement, control, and vibration dampening. This route was chosen to 'give more headroom' for CPU-hungry apps (web and otherwise) including Adobe Flash. Their solution costs $279; is this an appropriate trade-off for a device powering your TV?"

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  1. Damping, not dampening. by newdsfornerds · · Score: 5, Funny

    Vibrations may be damped. Vibrators may be dampened.

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    Damping absorbs vibrations. Dampening is caused by moisture.
    1. Re:Damping, not dampening. by zach_the_lizard · · Score: 5, Funny

      My good sir,

      I request more information on these devices called "vibrators" and how they may become dampened. A quick search through the literature seems to suggest that the female of the human species uses it a kind of cleaning device. I give you my sincerest thanks in advance.

      John C. Cluelessicus
      Director of Research into the female sex,
      Local Dungeons and Dragons fan club

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      SSC
    2. Re:Damping, not dampening. by Compuser · · Score: 2, Funny

      Judging by the style of writing I expected the signature to read:

      Dildongo Longo
      Central sperm bank of Nigeria

    3. Re:Damping, not dampening. by The+Clockwork+Troll · · Score: 4, Funny

      Haha, cleaning device, what a douche bag.

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      There are no karma whores, only moderation johns
  2. silent HTPC and silent site by roman_mir · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 12058624) (tried to allocate 35 bytes) in /var/www/open.neurostechnology.com/includes/menu.inc on line 1224 ...
    Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 1048576) (tried to allocate 4864 bytes) in /var/www/open.neurostechnology.com/includes/theme.inc on line 890 ...

    - it's so silent, nobody can hear it scream.

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    You can't handle the truth.
  3. Re:Oops by sgbett · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hah, the coral cache has cached the error!

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    Invaders must die
  4. Re:RTFA by Yvan256 · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's part of their power-saving plans.