The Crusoe chip by Transmeta appears to be exactly what we've all been waiting for, check out those specs. I'll be keeping my eyes peeled for news, in particular non laptop prototype boards.
The most pressing of the problems facing me at the moment. What is the point of getting high quality digital sound out of the PC if there is a constant humming noise from the various fans. My original PC a Dan Technology was far too noisy for working on let alone for Hi-Fi. Below are some of my current thoughts and experiences. If you have any comment please email me.
| The Crusoe chip by Transmeta appears to be exactly what we've all been waiting for, check out those specs. I'll be keeping my eyes peeled for news, in particular non laptop prototype boards. |
| My view is that Hi-Fi power amp must dissipate as much heat as a low spec PC so we ought to be able to use free air cooling with an open case similar to a power amp. |
| Build a large well ventilated case, like a power amp case. |
| You can get an 100W power supply for embedded computers with no fan. This should be enough for a Crusoe boards to run with disks and a DVD card. Also an external laptop brick power supply might be used if extra power is needed. |
| Use LAN boot and have the server in another room i.e have a diskless workstation. |
| Use a solid state drive (expensive!) |
| Put PC in another room and just have DVD Ram drive in living room (SCSI Cabling or Firewire ???) and cable the remote, video and sound output to Amp. I'm not keen on this. |
| Put PC in big soundproofed box. |
| Use a 2GHz sender to play DVD/MP3 through HI-Fi or TV. This is working for me at the moment |
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Please email me with products that you have had success with |
Lasted updated 22nd January 2000