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I want a quiet PC. What should I look for?

  "Extracts from the kernel-panic general list"

  Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr. suggests:

  What you are describing is a Via EPIA motherboard.  Choose the ME (EM?) -600 (6000?) and a wall-wart AC-DC converter.  I have 3 of them.  They work fine and the MPEG decoder accelerator driver has been reverse
 engineered.

  Available at Fry's for $129 for motherboard with lots of integrated peripherals and the processor.

  A good resource is www.idot.com.  I would *avoid* the ITX-PC Aluminum 200W Silent Cube case.  The case is a bit flimsy, the mounts are cheap plastic, and peripherals don't fit it very well (I had to use a mototool on the
 hard drive bracket to quit shorting out my small form factor PCI video card).  The PW-70A 100W 12V DC Converter for M EPIA works a treat, though.

  Tracy Reed suggests:

 I have a box from SolarPC which is small, quiet, relatively cheap (~$250 iirc) and has no fans so it is quiet and runs Linux perfectly. 
http://www.solarpc.com

  Bob LeQuey suggests googling for 
"mini-itx":http://www.google.com/search?hlen&ieISO-8859-1&qmini-itx
 which gives you links to such places as http://www.mini-itx.com/ .