[Info-vax] Office Friendly Kit for rx2620

[Dennis Grevenstein]

MG <marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> wrote:other
> 
> I already did that, but it's still quite loud (lesser with the winter
> temperatures at the moment, though) and it still dissipates a lot of
> heat.  Especially in the summer (for my VMS cluster and remote access),
> of course, it'll be all the more problematic.

If you really plan to run this 24/7 than the 150 USD will be
a fine price. The power bill will be high enough that you
shouldn't care about that. I used to run a zx6000 as a
server. I finally replaced it with a PC and paid for the PC
just with the savings on the next electricity bill. (just one
year). To me, Itanium isn't sinking like the Titanic. It's mostly
burning like the Hindenburg.

> I know nothing about the "Office Friendly" kit, even what people told
> me is still very vague to me.  I think it would be safe to say that
> with less noise and with only one power supply installed, the system
> would also dissipate less heat, right?

Not really. The rest of the machine still produces a whole lot
of heat. In the classic rackmount configuration the system is
louder because the fans spin so fast that the machine survives
a full rack of other machines. With the silent fans you can't
rackmount the system as you would expect it from a server.
If you want to save electricity, you could take out a CPU,
but then again, this would also reduce the fun.

One possibilty to deal with the noise, really is wearing
ear protection. I got myself some ear muffs. I have an
rx1600 here which is rated at about 70dB.  It's so loud
the dog leaves the room when I turn it on. With the
ear muffs on, I can still hear it, but it's aceptable.

Dennis

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