• Registered: 2010-03-21
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Topic: Picking parts for 14 liter matx amd desktop Statler desktop

I am trying to build a debian testing friendly small matx desktop.  I have a phenom II AMD 945 (95 watt tdp) and 1+2 G of ddr2 800 and plan to buy the rest from newegg.com.  I currently have a zotac itx board that runs all fans all the time and it sounds like a helicopter.  I cannot open the bios.

Quiet and small are priorities.

Which mother board and box is a good choice.  A motherboard + processor + bios combo that work with lm-sensors and debian fan control is critical.
Does a given mother board maker play better with linux sensors, fans and bios updates?

For the case:
IN WIN BK644.BN300TBL

For the motherboard:
ASUS M4A785-M AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 785G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Cheers,

Brokenpike

  • From: Norwich, UK
  • Registered: 2010-04-01
  • Posts: 48

Re: Picking parts for 14 liter matx amd desktop Statler desktop

I have a fanless Zotac Ion mini-itx in my HTPC.  It's the B model, the single-core one.  Combined with a fanless PSU and a single 21cm case fan turning at a mere 500rpm, the HTPC is completely noiseless (except for a tiny sound during disk seeks) and doesn't overheat even when playing 1080p video.

Fan control is one thing, but personally I've always found just buying silent parts works better: check out the stuff on quietpc.com

My quad-core phenom with three disks in you can just about hear if the room is quiet and you have your head next to the case. I don't even bother turning the fans down. smile

  • mzsade
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  • Registered: 2009-09-27
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Re: Picking parts for 14 liter matx amd desktop Statler desktop

It is fate i'm sure, that when i assembled my first desktop, i chose an Asus M2N-MX SE motherboard with an Nvidia ge force 4300 graphics card even though i didn't know then that something like Linux existed. I shudder to think what would have happened if i had gone the pentium way with an ATI card. It's been almost 3 years since then and i have never had a hardware issue.

Last edited by mzsade (2010-04-05 01:56:09)

  • Registered: 2010-03-21
  • Posts: 54

Re: Picking parts for 14 liter matx amd desktop Statler desktop

I just ordered some new 80 mm fans from quietpc.com . I do hope that they are quieter than the stock fans.

Cheers

Brokenpike