>Two questions:

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>1) On the VIA, was it noise in the audio path of an external soundcard, or the built-in one? I am planning to use a Delta66 breakout box >in my project, hopefully to get around this problem.

Unfortunately I did have noise in the external soundcard. Seemed to be PCI Bus related.

(BTW the internal card we had lots of clicks but none of the computer noise problems)

>2) For the fanless Intel, what kind of extra cooling did you use?

We are using a case fan that is blowing onto the cooler with fresh air from outside. Without it the system was overheating and stopped working after a certain amount of time. However, this might depend on the design of the box you are using.

Ingo