Name the machine Ironic, and use it to bot-farm World of Warcraft gold to sell on ebay…..
*grin*
20 Apr, 2009, David Haley wrote in the 7th comment:
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You could maybe replace the fans; relatively quiet fans are not hugely expensive. But servers are usually built without noise in mind since they're often stuck in a server room where noise doesn't really matter.
Only 2GB of RAM? The settops I build have more RAM than that. :p
David's right about the fans, ThermalTek and CoolerMaster both sell very quiet fans for low prices. When I can eventually get my hands on an affordable, high-capacity SSD drive (hopefully by the end of this year) my desktop computer will be practically silent despite being significantly faster than the server you just bought. Granted, my desktop machine is also made from all relatively new parts which are designed with low power consumptions in mind, unlike the older Xeon parts the server you bought likely uses.
Only 2GB of RAM? The settops I build have more RAM than that. :p
David's right about the fans, ThermalTek and CoolerMaster both sell very quiet fans for low prices. When I can eventually get my hands on an affordable, high-capacity SSD drive (hopefully by the end of this year) my desktop computer will be practically silent despite being significantly faster than the server you just bought. Granted, my desktop machine is also made from all relatively new parts which are designed with low power consumptions in mind, unlike the older Xeon parts the server you bought likely uses.
I'm also sure you pad more than $10.
;)
I will prolly look into some silent fans.
21 Apr, 2009, David Haley wrote in the 10th comment:
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You can get pretty good fans for $10 IIRC, and definitely less than $20-30. There's some amusement in the idea that you're doubling or tripling the purchase cost of the system by changing the fans, though. :wink:
You can get pretty good fans for $10 IIRC, and definitely less than $20-30. There's some amusement in the idea that you're doubling or tripling the purchase cost of the system by changing the fans, though. :wink:
That is funny. It's kind of like a car my friend bought. He found a Porche for sales sometime back. It was listed in the paper for $100. Of course, he didn't think this was right and that the paper or the owner made a typo. He went to check out the car anyway. He asked the lady if there was a mistake in the listing price and how much she was really asking for the car. She said $100. The reason was that she was going through a divorce and her soon-to-be ex told her to sell the car and give him the money for it. My firend bought the car and then about 6 months later had to have most of the engine rebuilt. You can imagine that in the end the car was still worth an insane amount of money more than what he put into it.
Putting even a $50 fan in that server sounds like it is well worth it.
:D
Now I just gotta decide exactly what I'm going to do with it.