brent timothy saner on 7 Feb 2019 17:04:47 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] How to Quiet a Server for Desktop Use?


On 2/7/19 7:45 PM, Casey Bralla wrote:
> My company was disposing of an old IBM server and I was able to pick it
> up rather than have it get recycled.  The thing has 2 Xeon processors,
> 24 GBytes of RAM, and 1.3 TBytes of RAID disk space. I'm thinking I
> might want to put a PCIx graphics card in it and use it as a desktop. 
> I'm very curious to see how long it would take to compile a Gentoo kernel.
> 
> 
> Except for the NOISE.
> 
> 
> The 3 fans in this beast sound like a hurricane.  Anybody got any
> suggestions on how to quiet the noise?
> 

Sure! As long as you have a couple tens to hundreds grand lying around,
this is virtually silent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D693fUr7pLk

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