Le lundi 17 octobre 2011 à 09:39 +0200, brian a écrit :
Looks good. Any chance of underclocking, and getting it totally silent?
cpufreq minimum frequency is 1.6GHz for this Core i3 2100 (1.6-3.1 GHz). I don't think one can underclock more than that. Maybe the BIOS can lower voltage, thus heat generation, and lower fan speed a bit more. I was afraid I'd have to limit CPU speed to, say, 2.5GHz, and reproduce a real 2100T, but it never needs to go that far up, so it's good. The fansink is behind a variator (Zalman fanmate), set to the lowest speed. Too bad the motherboard cannot drive the fan with it's PWM system, because it's 4 pins only, and the fansink I selected have a 3 pins fan. Anyway, it's very silent. The case is a Silverstone GD06 with 3 slow-speed fans. They are sufficiently silent for me at stock speed. The overall machine is far from silent, but highly bearable (much less noise than the fridge).
BTW. I'm looking for the same sort of thing, no idea yet what software I would use, but it would only be a remote VDR "client" for me. To get away from modulating the signal onto the existing cable I want to add some small clients if possible. The main VDR would stay in the cellar where it is now.
streamdev-server on the server, to streamdev-client + xineliboutput. or xineliboutput on the server, to vdr-sxfe/fbfe on the client.