| slyphon | hey, i'm taking a poll, is water-cooling only for gamerz with l33t ne0n in their case? or has it achieved some level of legitimacy? |
| jcreigh | I haven't heard of anybody running water-cooled production servers...so maybe that's somewhat of a hint. |
| cdcarter | gamerz |
| slyphon | heh i'm speccing out a new desktop unit for home and i want a case/cooling combo that runs quiet |
| cdcarter | dont use cooling |
| teferi | slyphon: you don't need water cooling, really |
| cdcarter | just thermal paste and halon |
| teferi | slyphon: get a power supply that can throttle fans and a motherboard that supports throttling fans (they all do) |
| action | slyphon eats thermal paste |
| slyphon | eats thermal paste |
| action | slyphon nods |
| slyphon | nods |
| teferi | and a case that has rubber washers on its drive mounts that makes a big difference |
| slyphon | yeah, there's this antec case that looks pretty nice |
| teferi | also, the case should use big (slow) fans whenver possible the Sonata? I have one I like it |
| slyphon | i was lookin at the p182 i like the fan configuration |
| teferi | I dig the drive rails in the sonata sooo much |
| cdcarter | get a celeron |
| teferi | No more fucking screws |
| slyphon | :) http://www.silentpcreview.com/article251-page5.html |
| teferi | The one thing I don't dig is the lack of a mobo tray that is a pain |
| slyphon | yeah |
| teferi | Jesus Christ, what the hell is that heatsink?! |
| slyphon | a "Scythe Ninja" rates highest on that site's reviews |
| teferi | You could kill a man with that much copper |
| argv[] | liquid nitrogen cooling ftw. |
| slyphon | how about mobos? linux compat is pretty important, my last one was an nvidia nforce-2 that wreaked havoc on my sanity |
| rue | Ew no Intels :P |
| teferi | rue: actually, intel's new chips do rock the house |
| slyphon | rue: nah, it was an Athlon-XP |
| teferi | I've been told that they even rock the casbah |