Mini-ITX system (sort of a review)

[Yu Meng Chong]

----- "Bruce Marshall" <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, May 19, 2011, Yu Meng Chong wrote:
> > Not sure how useful these observations are to list members, but I
> > thought I'd just put in my 2 cents.
> > 
> 
> Very interesting reading.  
> 
> However, you said the case you bought had a fan on the front, but that
> the 
> system is running cool....  Might the fan be the reason?
> 
> I was trying for a fanless system but still have the fan for the CPU.

Well, I'm not too sure whether the fan is doing its job or not -- it is
a "golf-bladed fan", which is a fan with little dimples on the blades 
that is supposed to reduce noise as it spins. The thing about the SG05 
is that it is so quiet, even with the fan spinning at 1000+rpm, that you
aren't quite sure if this is an elaborate con or outstanding 
engineering. My home server, a Dell, sounds quite noisy in comparison, 
but at least you know the fans are working.

pascal chong