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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?"

2 of 199 comments (clear)

  1. interesting by j0hnyquest · · Score: 0, Redundant

    sounds like a cool technology

  2. Slashdotted by Yvan256 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Fatal error: out of dynamic memory in yy_create_buffer() in Unknown on line 0
    Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 11010048) (tried to allocate 77824 bytes) in /var/www/open.neurostechnology.com/modules/pathauto/pathauto.module on line 182
    Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 11796480) (tried to allocate 16 bytes) in /var/www/open.neurostechnology.com/includes/menu.inc on line 211
    Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 8650752) (tried to allocate 4864 bytes) in /var/www/open.neurostechnology.com/modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.module on line 767
    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 9175040) (tried to allocate 192 bytes) in /var/www/open.neurostechnology.com/modules/tinymce/tinymce.module on line 242

    etc, etc.

    If we push it just a little bit harder, their web server will catch fire and then stop completely. THAT will really be a silent PC!