Isn't that the difference between the workstation and the server model lines: the attention to lower soundlevels for the first? Hans PS A VAX may be more quiet but when they're all up and running in my attic an I64 is probably quiet in comparison :-) Not that I own one however. Verzonden vanaf mijn draadloze BlackBerry -toestel -----Original Message----- From: Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> Sender: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:23:10 To: <hecnet at Update.UU.SE> Reply-To: hecnet at Update.UU.SESubject: Re: [HECnet] So who's looking forward to all the cheap second-hand Itanium gear that will soon be flooding the market? Is your zx6000 crazy noisy as well? My rx2600 (RHESUS, btw, on HECnet) sounds like a freaking jet engine.. Sampsa On 5 Jul 2011, at 15:15, Mark Benson wrote: I strongly suspect that's one reason I got my zx6000 so cheap. Itanium is about to become an ex-technology I suspect! Incidentally, if anyone comes across front, top and side covers and the steel pedestal stand for a zx6000 I need them. -- Mark Benson http://markbenson.org/blog http://twitter.com/MDBenson