Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

[Mike <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 09 September 2006 17:48, Basil Chupin wrote:

>
> One of the things I liked about it was how the heatsink contact
> surface was prepared at the factory. It required no lapping or
> polishing - all this was already done at the factory. Most
> impressive.

That is nice. The thermaltake heatsinks I've used are nice also. Always 
quiet, and pretty easy to install.

> > Most are very quiet even when running at full speed. And I've got
> > two 8cm fans blowing on three HD's, two more for pulling hot air
> > from the cpus, two more above the PSU for exhaust, and two in the
> > PSU. One of the fans in the PSU is manually controllable. The
> > system isn't that noisy, as I can still hear the wife when she
> > calls me for dinner.. ;-)
>
> Well it could also mean that your wife makes a rather loud call :-) .

No.. she's actually pretty quiet. ;-))

> With all those fans (plus all the other components drawing power)
> what do you use as the PSU?

Thermaltake 480w ATX type. Don't remember the exact model, but I've had 
it for quite a while. It just keeps working. And it's got more 
connectors than I'll ever need. 
If you are really interested, contact me off-list, and I can tell you 
more about what is being powered here.

Mike

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