Re: 1U PC for Kyma (was Re: Llive llooping, Cardiff, Wales)

["Michael LaMeyer" <mlameyer@rcn.com>]

Oh, just get a box with 8GB of memory, no hard drives, and a
non-fan cpu cooling system.

;-)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan El-Bizri" <jonathan@full-moon.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 8:00 PM
Subject: Re: 1U PC for Kyma (was Re: Llive llooping, Cardiff,
Wales)


>
>
> >
> > hadn't thought of that.
> > fan noise is directly related to air velocity
> > smaller aperture = faster velocity.
> > there may be little to fix that.
> > of course, clubs tend to be pretty noisy,
> > but for ambient stuff in coffee house/gallery it could
> > be pretty annoying...
> >
>
> Not to mention that you're going to be using this in your
living
> room/rehearsal space too. The rackmount machine sitting at the
other end of
> my cubicle is too loud for anything but a club - it's more
than annoying;
> you couldn't perform. I'd listen to the machine before you buy
it, or,
> prepare to replace the power supply. Make sure that it takes
ATX style power
> supplies, so you can easily find a non-server style
replacement.
>
> The biggest source of noise in my desktop-style pc are the cpu
fans, and the
> disk drives. It never ends!!
>
> bIz
>
>