preferred fan speed control methods?

[Ben Scott]

On 11/30/06, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
> A lot of the systems I work on have a seperate fan and duct for the
> cpu.  Of course, it blows out.
>
> It's not just PCs.  The Sun systems I work on do that too.

  Well, once you get out of the PC world, you'll find a lot more
manufactures thinking instead of mindlessly chanting "we've always
done it that way".  That does tend to be one of the advantages of
proprietary and semi-proprietary hardware.

  The "server" PCs I see tend to either be (1) same exact design as a
minitower/desktop, or (2) built like a wind tunnel, with multiple fans
blowing through front-to-back, with no place to install filters or
anything like that.

-- Ben