Lloyd M.
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| JerWA wrote: | | Yes, I'm rather impressed with the SilenX fans. I've read reviews that say the air moving is louder than the fan, like hearing a breeze or something. I can understand if they're pinching pennies with electricity and such, but other than that, why? |
I think I can understand the dilemma.
Fortunately, wife actually believed me when I told her that running the computer all the time didn't use a lot of electricity. The fool!
Well, at the time, it probably didn't. As I'm getting an honest farm put together, it might start making a difference. I might have to pay for the extra electricity.
Speaking of which, I got BOINC going on my Netfinity server last night, complete with lunatics.at optimized app. It was quite an experience to see four WU's processing simultaneously! The CPU's are pretty slow, and between the optimization and having four of them, it at least counts as some reasonable fraction of a "real" computer.
Actually, I'm going to be using it at the domain controller and whatnot for my home network in any case (which will have all the bells and whistles, like roaming profiles). And it's such a monster that I just get a kick out of it. It's impossibly heavy. It has redundant, hot swappable everything. You can even hot swap boards on the PCI bus. It has six internal drives configured as two RAID arrays, plus another, external RAID array with seven more drives. There's something like 12 RAM slots. I put in a SCSI controller that has a fairly large cache, which actually has a battery back up.
Just plain over the top in every way. A perfectly looney computer, just right for the likes of yours truly 
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