Personal computing discussed
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Looking for Knowledge wrote:When drunk.....
I want to have sex, but find I am more likely to be shot down than when I am sober.
Heiwashin wrote:You guys and your silence. My computer sounds like two hair dryers.
Looking for Knowledge wrote:When drunk.....
I want to have sex, but find I am more likely to be shot down than when I am sober.
Noinoi wrote:(In fact, my motherboard allows me to set whatever fan speeds I want with its three points, but if the motherboard's CPU temperature sensor (not the CPU's own temperature sensor, this seems to be measuring something close to IHS temps) sees 75C, it's instant 100%. This can't be changed.
DPete27 wrote:I've seen my fair share of behemoth cases with fans stuffed into every available mount running at full tilt because....? EXTREME.....
bthylafh wrote:DPete27 wrote:I've seen my fair share of behemoth cases with fans stuffed into every available mount running at full tilt because....? EXTREME.....
You haven't lived until you watch and hear a 7200 RPM (oh yes) CPU cooler spin up. That was a K7 Athlon system, IIRC.
bthylafh wrote:DPete27 wrote:I've seen my fair share of behemoth cases with fans stuffed into every available mount running at full tilt because....? EXTREME.....
You haven't lived until you watch and hear a 7200 RPM (oh yes) CPU cooler spin up. That was a K7 Athlon system, IIRC.
Starfalcon wrote:bthylafh wrote:DPete27 wrote:I've seen my fair share of behemoth cases with fans stuffed into every available mount running at full tilt because....? EXTREME.....
You haven't lived until you watch and hear a 7200 RPM (oh yes) CPU cooler spin up. That was a K7 Athlon system, IIRC.
Psh, I had a cpuFx heatsink on my 1.4 athlon with the big daddy 60mm 8K rpm Delta hearing destroyer, along with 6 of the 80mm 7k rpm "case" fans.
Game.Set.Match
Needless to say, my computer gave me a blinding headache after 30 mins of so from the extreme noise. That is what lead me down the road to quieter and less noisy fans.
Waco wrote:There was the absolute bliss of zero noise changes regardless of load though...
Anovoca wrote:1U rackmount for a LTO drive? Cripe's sakes my smallest one right now is 4 and we only write 2-6 tapes a day max. Were you guys that hard up for rack room with that much data to back up that you couldn't use DVD or 2" cassette?
TwistedKestrel wrote:Was it anything like this?
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just brew it! wrote:Years ago I worked at a place that had a robotic tape library that was nearly the size of a rail car. The tapes were in floor to ceiling racks along both sides, and there was a track up the middle with a huge industrial robot on it. This thing looked like it was big enough to sling auto transmissions around, but it had a tiny little grabber mechanism mounted to the end of the arm so it could mount and unmount tape cartridges from the tape drives. When it rolled from one end of the library to the other, you could feel the floor shake. I found the whole thing rather amusing...
synthtel2 wrote:Waco wrote:There was the absolute bliss of zero noise changes regardless of load though...
The lack of this just let me know my computer was infected. 20% CPU load when it was supposed to be idle made just enough noise to let me know something was up, and this alone probably kept it from doing any real damage. (Of course, if I hadn't been running Linux a random burst of CPU load would have been meaningless, but that's a different story.)
synthtel2 wrote:That wouldn't have helped, since I was in the room but not using the computer.
Silent computers would be nice, but it would take a long time for me to get used to noise not being load-dependent. I keep htop open all the time, so theoretically I've got all the info right there too, but it'll never be as quick or automatic as just listening.