I'm a long time lurker, first time poster from Norway.
My current pc is getting rather old, and a lot of work has gone into making it as quiet as possible. Still, I'm not getting it silent enough for my taste. In addition I've filled up all the pci-slots just to be up to date with io-ports. (USB 2, FireWire, etc)
The reason I'm writing is of course that I'd like comments on my planned new setup, which currently is as follows:
- ASUS A8V DELUXE (No fan, only heatsink on north bridge)
- Athlon64 Winchester 3200+
- Thermalright XP-120 heatsink, cooled by two 92mm fans at lowest speed in parallel in a duct pulling air out of the case. (A setup I'm running with good results on my XP1700+ Palomino with a SLK900, except that it is blowing air from the outside on the heat sink) I suppose it is probably a complete overkill in terms of cooling capabilities, but I hope to be able to run the processor cool with very low airflow.
- No disks or cd/dvd-devices in the case. The pc will boot from the network, and have access to dvd/cd-devices over the network using network block devices.
- When it comes to video cards, my primary concern is to get one that doesn't have/need a fan to stay cool. The system is going to be used for viewing dvd's, programming, and some video editing, but no fancy 3d capabilities are required. Secondary, I need a video card that has good linux drivers. Probably I'll go for a low end nvidia card.
- For power supply, I'm very tempted to go for a fanless brick cpu as described in this topic if I can find a vendor here in Norway. A 100W power supply should be more than enough for a system like this, and fanless is heaven.
- I plan to build my own case for the pc. My idea is that the case should be very open to let a lot of air into the case, which is then pulled out of the case through the XP-120 by the only fans in the case. There are no noise that I need to stop inside the case, so common sense (?) tells me that it is a good idea to open up the case as much as possible.
Any suggestions for a decent fanless video card?
Know of vendors in Norway that can sell me fanless brick psu's and atx-converters?