January 21, 201313 yr Looking for a relatively inexpensive motherboard/cpu combo that could be passively cooled or actively with a very slow fan. I am a few years behind in hardware knowledge; last time I was looking at stuff ATOM boards were the way to go. Does that still stand true? or Would a cheapo AMD system be better?
January 22, 201313 yr I would recommend you maybe have a look at a Intel Gxxx (sandy/ivy bridge based), they are good low power cpu's and still have good performance if/when required. If you look at my sign you can see that I have a G620 myself, you can see some comments and links I did posted at other topic: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=25130.msg218545#msg218545 On my system I have it with stock cooler, and motherboard is set to auto control cooler's fan speed (usually always it at 1000rpm with default fan control settings, even when at full load for some hours), also my case (for now) have just 1 rear 120mm fan running also at 1000rpm (despite even lower rpm's like 600/700 seems fine and make very little difference on temperatures, from some tests, however I do run it at 1000rpm as it is still inaudible for me, only at 1300rpm I can notice a little turbulence but still only on very quiet rom). I can tell you that my whole system is near inaudible at 1m from it (so that you have an idea my case haves only 1 led, intended for power led, however I did connected it as hdd led as I find it more useful, and sometimes I have trouble to find if it is turned on or not, I really need to get very close to it to check that )
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