Building the Quiet PC 171
An anonymous reader sent us a great little article on building a silent PC. Utilizing low noise power supplies, cases with good ventilation, and noise enclosures for hard drives, you can actually here you stereo over your PC again. I've been looking at undertaking such a project myself real soon, so I'm glad this one came along.
Xterminals... (Score:1)
"Here" is not a verb (Score:1)
What's next, wearing panties? (Score:1)
My computer is powered by a big and noisy Harley Davidson motor engine. When I power on my computer, the entire neighbourhood can hear the iron spinning and screaming. You can't help but feel the ethernet to the bone.
combining power supplies and air ducting (Score:1)
http://www.burningissues.net/how_to/power/psu.htm
Make an air plenum (duct) to reduce noise:
http://www.burningissues.net/hardware/Plenum_bi/p
My absolue favorite tip from an OC site about cooling:
use duct tape to seal all the little openings which let air leak out. Duh, that's why fans have to run so hard. A fan in the front of the case can't exhaust air from the back if it's actually pulling air from all over. Hmm...sounds similar to why people round cables.
Re:Quiet Macs (Score:1)
It's that little light.. It's touch sensitive? I just had the laugh of my life.. Thanks!
Re:More Tips (Score:1)
First is to get a temp controlled fan to start with. A lot of big fan companies make them, but they're usually sold OEM style. I picked up some nice Nidec 92mm ones from All Electronics [allelectronics.com]. They only spin at about half speed until the temp gets to 70F, and they ramp up from there. Nice, quiet units, but a touch sensitive to dirty power (IE. for some reason, they refuse to run off 12V (car...) batery chargers. +)
Your other easy option would be to get something like a digidoc, which monitors temps, and can switch fans...
Re:Quiet Macs (Score:1)
Quiet Macs (Score:3)
Carefull... (Score:5)
hereing my stereo. (Score:1)
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Re:If you want a quiet computer... (Score:2)
Re:Xterminals... (Score:1)
Either way the PC can be as powerfull (and consequently noisy) as you would like without affecting you.
I.e. If 5 fans and 4 hard drives spin in another soundproff room where you can't here it do they make a sound?
What I did (Score:2)
Where does all this noise come from? (Score:3)
Air Filters (Score:2)
My noisyest machine (Score:2)
It's got this old, clunky, 5" 400Meg drive that makes you feel it's based on some V8 engine.
Meanwhile, it's fan is big and blows a lor of hair through the machine's thin air intake and exit vents.
When I shut this machine down, it feels like the house's thermopump shuts down.
It's been said before, but I'll reiterate, because you'll never realize how much this is true until it's the only machine running in your house. Those iMacs are REALLY silent.
Karma karma karma karma karmeleon: it comes and goes, it comes and goes.
Aaaahhhh.... Java Hell ! (Score:1)
Have you guys gone to that site - http://www.ocshoot.com/quietpc.htm - ?
I used my old laptop trying to get to the site, it crashed my opera browser, then my old netscape browser came up with bunch of java script.
So... I had to go back to the office and use the office Windoze machine, power up the M$-IE, and the page load successfully.
Sometimes, I hope that Slashdot will STOP advertise sites that comes with TONS AND TONS of JAVA shits.
What's the use of Java when it crashes browsers?
Re:Silent and Quiet? (Score:2)
If I were you I wouldn't expect much from these guys in the way of well-coded English.
Re:he cant here you comment either (Score:2)
Re:he cant here you comment either (Score:3)
that'll fry your PC, dude (Score:1)
Your computer was designed with fans for a reason. You're taking a stupid risk by defeating them.
Silent and Quiet? (Score:1)
Second, how can something not be quiet (little or no noise) but be ultra silent (again, not just the absence of noise, but an ultra absence of noise)?.
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Re:This is not news (Score:1)
Re:Silent and Quiet? (Score:1)
Including the part where he says but is not limited to this?
At least he didn't say "you're PC again." I hate it when people do that. It brings the voices back again.
Re:what a waste (Score:1)
Obviously, because the +1 score is the default, the vast majority of articles should be posted at +1 unless there's a REALLY GOOD REASON.
This is so obvious I am amazed that I actually have to explain the wisdom of this approach to someone.
(can you tell this is some sarchasm? I'd like to see Taco change the default to post at 1 all the time, and only at 2 if you check the button.)
P.S. I'm posting this one at 2, as a protest against something or other.
Re:60 deg C. for the HD... (Score:2)
I also can't believe they bought a case you could see through only to insulate it at the end.
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My Solution (Score:2)
It does have a bit of a heat problem. In warm weather, if the air isn't moving, a few hours of 100% CPU usage will overheat it, but when the days get warm I shut down D.Net and turn on CPUidle.
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Re:Two other approaches (Score:1)
I like the idea of a double-insulated case with liquid cooling, though. :)
Re:12dB-16db that's low noise (Score:2)
Re:12dB-16db that's low noise (Score:3)
You can build some very silent PC's with Cyrix processors
Nothing like a slower, hotter processor to quiet your machine down... I heat my house with Cyrix processors, 'cause they don't waste a lot of power doing actual computing and they put out gobs of heat. At least, that's true of the ones that I've used.
Silent and efficent servers/pc's (Score:1)
I strongly believe there is a real need for a home server, one that costs as little as possible to keep plugged in and running.... and silent. Unless you banish it to the utility room, then it can be as loud as a truck)
Re:Careful... (Score:1)
NLX (Score:1)
Onboard audio and ethernet, a really sweet box.
Re:CD players are bad (Score:2)
www.noisecontrol.de (Score:2)
In addition to the stuff you can get on quietpc.com they sell hard drive "enclosures" which hold the drives in rubber bands rather than actually enclosing them. (Probably doesn't help as much for noise, no cooling problem, some drives don't like being in a non-stiff environment.)
I have one of the tower cases as well. The case kit includes cork board cut to dampen the noise. The best part is the sliding door which lets you keep the CD-ROM behind cork but provides quick access when you need it.
If I had to do it again I would buy a heavier case and cut the cork board myself though.
you don't have it so bad... (Score:2)
Unfortunately the quietness of the 15 machines we have in our office often goes unnappreciated.
I am a British ExPat working in Lagos, Nigeria. (largest population in Africa if you didn't know) and because of where we are we have to have powerful (2hp+) ACs on all day and because of the huge power supply problem here (almost as bad as California) we need to be running huge Backup Generators most of the time, and they sit just outside my window.
And don't forget the 6kVA UPS unit that sits proud and unmovable (damn things heavier than me) next to my desk whirring its fans to keep the batteries cool while keeping our server running almost 24/7.
What I need is real soundproof generator housing, a more regular mains power supply and then maybe get God to turn down the temperature a bit here so we can shut down some AC's. Then I will be happy.
That's my two naira over with.
try a spirit level (Score:3)
What cured it was when I places a small spirit level on it and set the screws so that the drive was as level as possible and it became silent.
It seemed to perform better too.
Re:More Tips (Score:2)
IT IS NOT A KITCHEN APPLIANCE!! (Score:2)
Re:Nothing too interesting there (Score:2)
Now for the article - basically it sucked. The CPU cooler should have been a Noise Control "Silverado" - check out Tom's Hardware for a comparison showing absolutely silent operation using blower-type fans as well as excellent performance. You have to mail-order it from Germany but it is worth it. The Zalman coolers are cheaper, but very expensive for the performance they give!
Using a SilentDrive enclosure with a 7200RPM drive is a little risky, heat-wise. You can get equivalent results by mounting the hard drives using rubber grommets. Remove the metal-to-metal contact between the drive and the case and you'll be amazed at how much noise you don't hear. I had to make a custom drive cage to fit the grommets in. The drive chassis should still be earthed to the case however, using a wire.
Insulation does not give great improvement over a plain metal case. I went through using DynaMat Extreme for very little gain. Still, now I know.
My experience with the unmodified G4 450MHz Cube was that on warm days (it's only San Francisco!) the Cube would sometimes mysteriously freeze. Dismantling and adding a very quiet 80mm fan solved that problem. Apple almost got it right.
The biggest gains are to use larger diameter fans that run slower (Panaflo L1A series), unobstructed air paths (stamped fan grilles should be cut out!) and rubber-mounted drives (in that order).
Those SuperMicro 750 towers rock (Score:3)
Yeap, they got TONS of room. I have 3 fans inside mine.
Two words dude: rounded-cables !
http://www.overclockercafe.com/Reviews/Rounded%20
G450 versus Radeon DDR (Score:2)
I used Papst fans, Enermax FC power supplies, Fujitsu FDB hard drives, rubber gromets to mount the hard drives, and a few bits of sound absorbing foam. Actually, the Celeron had the noisiet parts so we glued half a dozen expired mouse pads to the inside of the case, black foamy side up. Very effective.
It's really worth the trouble. My patience for technical writing has more than doubled since I eliminated the droning noises. I used to play Quake just to drown out the background noise.
What bugged me about the review was the comments on the the G450. I use a G450 in the dual PIII/750 system. I had a Radeon 32MB DDR in the 1G Athlon (KT7A-RAID).
We used to play network Quake at home. I played on the G450, my brother on the Radeon DDR. I set my system to 16 bit color, lowered the texture detail slightly (which I didn't give a damn about), and stuck to a lower screen resolution (either 800x600 or 640x480 depending on how I was feeling).
My brother set the Radeon DDR to 32 bit color. 16 bit color on that card is very ugly and not much faster. He was probably one screen resolution up from me. His frame rate averaged about 30% faster. Did it make any difference?
Well, we finally decided that the G450 was more playable. (I didn't have SMP enabled, so it wasn't due to CPU power.) The 16 color on the Matrox was at least as saturated as the Radeon in 32 bit color. It was hard to get a gamma curve on the Radeon which didn't cause the image to have a slightly washed color tone. You could almost get it perfect, but the dark parts would be just a bit too dark.
On the G450 it was trivial to get excellent color and gamma.
With tons of bots on the map, the Radeon was definitely a bit more brisk. However, the Radeon was *much* more sensitive to the complexity of the map. You'd be cruising along at 60fps or better then hit a bad part of the map and plunge down to 20 fps momentarily. The Matrox hummed along at 45 fps all day long, unless you had ten bots in the same room, then it would taper off maybe down to 30 fps.
The G450 is far more playable than the numbers suggest. I could see the map just as well at my curtailed settings as my brother could with more colors and more pixels.
My playing style is somewhat Gretzky-like. I can run into a crowded room and just know where everyone else is almost all of the time. You can tell where the guy behind you is going by how the guy in front of you moves. I'm a lousy player against people who never miss. For everyone else, I'm mayhem in motion. If I want to shoot someone 90 degrees to my left I usually do a dead spin 270 degrees to my right (so I can see enough of the room to pick up my next three targets). I don't shoot at people, I shoot at places I don't want people to go. I had no trouble at all playing this style with a G450 and I even preferred it in many ways to a Radeon DDR on a faster processor, with faster memory.
It takes a lot of gall to call the G450 a crappy card. It's kind of like an amateur golfer who decides his scores are bad because his equipment sucks.
One way to make your system quiet... (Score:2)
I was losing sleep, and I was losing my mind.
Then, I discovered the secret to a quieter, less annoying system.
Not only did I manage to silence my system, I also managed to get rid of all of the annoyance generally associated with being in front of it. My whole quality of living has changed because of one thing.
I turned it off.
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
DIY quiet fans (Score:3)
Re:Two other approaches (Score:2)
I remember quite a few years ago, slashdot having this almost exact same discussion of ways of making your PC quieter.
One lad suggested running some kind of hose (think of the hose on household canister vacuums) from the power supply fan to somewhere else like under the bed or into a closet. I can't remember if anyone said whether it works or would work or not, but it seemed like a cool "thinking outside of the box" type of solution.
Alternatively, you could drop the temperature of the ambient intake air so that less would be needed to cool the CPU and drives.
I do this, though mainly just for keeping my CPU cooler. My room is a constant 70 degrees fahrenheit. With 9 fans total, my box is loud and I like it that way.
Perhaps a chilled-water heat exchanger construction would suit.
I would almost bet that something like this would actually be louder, since you have to have a pump motor of some sort. Also a fan on the "radiator" if you ever want full advantage of a water cooled system.
Re:Quiet Macs (Score:3)
While I like the idea of the Cube very much (except the fact that it's actually shaped like a cube), it had numerous flaws resulting from that design. If I were ever to have one given to me (or bought at an insanely low price), the most important modification for me would be to hack a fan into the top hole.
Why? Well I was checking one out at CompUSA and remembered several tales about people waving their hand across the hole and watching the machine crash instantly. So I swiped my hand across the hole, watched nothing happen, and started to walk away. When I looked over my shoulder, sure enough, the thing was rebooting...
Three more tips (Score:3)
1) Many Maxtor drives have "SilentStor". My DiamondMax 2160 (30G/5400 RPM) is amazing... I can't even tell the thing's on, even when its accessing.
2) The ThermalTake Volcano II (DU0462-7) from the CoolerGuys.com is really quiet. Not gimmicky like the "Orb".
3) (Experimental) Why doesn't someone use a larger, slower spinning fan air ducted to the CPU? The main reason CPU fans are so noisy is that they have to spin faster to get the same airflow for their size.
Box in the other room... (Score:3)
Re:Nothing too interesting there (Score:5)
Don't do this! All modern microprocessors are designed with dynamic circuits which are very timing dependent. In general, processors cannot be underclocked reliably. The Pentium 4, for example, will not run reliably under about 1.2 GHz or will have problems with the L2 cache. It is safe if you run a particular processor at a lower speed bin, but definitely don't run it at a speed where it's not sold at. Additionally, typically not all bus ratios are validated. There might be bugs a different clock ratios, even lower ones than what is sold (changing the bus ratio radically changes timing conditions possible in the processor, and some bugs are only visible at certain ratios). Also, underclocking the bus is problematic also. High speed RAM is also timing sensitive and could cause corruption if underclocked.
Noise? (Score:2)
-Legion
Re:he cant here you comment either (Score:2)
Re:Quiet Macs (Score:3)
Re:CD players are bad (Score:2)
/sbin/hdparm -E will set the read speed of an ATAPI (IDE interface) CD-ROM.
Sotto la panca, la capra crepa
More Tips (Score:5)
Next, go to your local Radioshack.com (Fry's electronics sucked) and pick up some potentiometers. Get 5W, 50ohm. Splice these into your case fan/cput fan, only using the positive wire only. (use the middle and left OR right connection only on the pots).
This will deaden any PC quite well.. without special equipment. I have an MC462 W/ Delta cpu fan. 80mm, and 120mm case fans. the pots let me quiet it down even more... while sacrificing a little cooling ability. (at least I can sleep at night now. .
CD players are bad (Score:4)
The only thing that irritates me is CD/DVD players. I have this 40x speed AOpen DVD player and when it's reading a disc it's really noisy. I've tried a couple of others and they're practically all the same. Anyone know of an internal DVD player that's silent?
Silent cabinets (Score:4)
Now even if your not as lucky as we were, you needn't dispair. The construction is fairly simple, and should be easy enough to replicate on your own, to a much lower price than a low-noise PC. Next time you get a chance, give one of these cabinets a closer look and take a few notes.
LVD SCSI... put that 10000 rpm drive 50 feet away! (Score:2)
The SCSI LVD (80 Mbyte/sec) signals can be run for at least 25 meters (approx 75 feet), and you can go much farther if it's just a point-to-point (only the PC and one drive). 25 feet was plenty to get the drive into a closet. Together with a bit of foam in the walls and door in the closet, that nasty 10000 rpm noise is almost completely gone.
Re:remember the noise? (Score:2)
Turns out, people thought that meant it wasn't as powerful, so the company put a case fan in anyway to loudly blow air around the case for no real purpose other than to make noise so people would buy it.
Anyone know what I'm talking about enough to correct the inaccuracies?
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remember the macs? (Score:3)
Of course, like many people, now I run my PC with 6 fans, 3 loud hard drives, and with the case cover off, so I'm more than used to a little noise.
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Taco you idiot !! (Score:5)
Why don't you try reading Slashdot [slashdot.org]?
Re:DIY quiet fans (Score:3)
Ian
But, but... (Score:4)
Oh, wait, that's cars, isn't it. No wonder I can't get any dates.
Re:CD players are bad (Score:2)
Re:More software selection for the C64 too! (Score:2)
Truth is, Apple, for whatever reason, threw a lot of resources into the problem and the Kihei iMacs (and the cube as well) were what came out. If you want to know how to make a fanless computer system, you could do a lot worse than to study the construction details on an iMac.
(Incidentally, I think having a lot of unrestricted empty space inside the case was a big part of what made it work, though I don't think that applies to the cubes...)
/Brian
Re:If you want a quiet computer... (Score:2)
The fact is that the Sara project (Apple
The whole issue of silent PCs is IMHO a hack value thing, mostly of interest to those who live in studio apartments that have been reincarnated as network closets with beds (which I suspect is rather a large percentage of the
the moral of the story: Make sure you have a minitower case that can stand up to being dropped on its side
/Brian
Re:CD players are bad (Score:2)
My current systems are an interesting mix -- 24x CDRW and 12x CD-ROM on my Mac, and a high-speed CD-ROM of unknown speed on my PC. It does get a little noisy. The curious thing is this: a PC I replaced recently had a 40x added aftermarket, but I could never find the correct mounting hardware for it so it was pretty much just plugged in and unanchored. Curiously, I never noticed a single case of Maytag Mode on it, though a poorly pressed MacAddict CD (readable, but visible moire patterns on the recording surface) once did a number on an older Mac CD-ROM of mine...
/Brian
Re:CD players are bad (Score:2)
Reminds me of the 40x drive I used to have (I don't remember which brand it was). At low speeds, it was okay, but at full speed, it sounded like a jet taking off.
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Clock me up, clock me down (Score:2)
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Re:Silent and Quiet? (Score:2)
Utilizing low noise power supplies, cases with good ventilation, and noise enclosures for hard drives, you can actually here you stereo over your PC again.
HEAR. Rob, it's spelled h e a r.
That is all.
Re: (Score:2)
Re:remember the Amiga? (Score:2)
Re:No PC is a quiet PC.... (Score:2)
Too bad Sun isnt famous for their low prices :-/
What about the DIYers? (Score:5)
Why this article is linked to via Slashdot, I'll never know, as I get the impression that the majority of the Slashdot crowd would rather have an extensive DIY article with links afterwords to the commercial products (for those who want to pay for the convenience of not DIY).
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I do have the Antec 1080 and it is very quiet. The case is large, though, so sound will echo if you don't add some insulation or what not. I did find the included Antec power supply was very quiet, so quiet I was surprised when I first turned the machine on. With some 80mm (the article erroneously says they fan mounts are 60mm) Panaflos you can get very good airflow with low noise. My current acoustical problems come from my old Seagate Barracuda SCSI drives, which are unavoidably loud.
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I got my case from Directron [directron.com] and the Panaflos from Teamawe [teamawe.com].
Re:If you want a quiet computer... (Score:2)
Kinda funny - sounds like something you'd hear from the BOFH, not Apple Helpdesk :)
And this should help too (Score:3)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/29/113120 8 [slashdot.org]
No PC is a quiet PC.... (Score:2)
Just a thought...
-Jeff
Re:If you want a quiet computer... (Score:3)
60 deg C. for the HD... (Score:5)
The moral of the story - the cooler you keep your hard drive the longer it will last. That's why server cases put fans over the hard drives. The Apple G3/G4 pro cases also circulate air around the hard drives. Putting your hard drive in a "quiet" case and then removing it's one source of cooling is just plain stupid. They'll learn in time..
Willy
Powersupply (Score:3)
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Re:Carefull... (Score:5)
There are two kinds of hearing damages: physical and psychological. The second one may occur at low sound levels, but for a physical damage to occur, the sound has to cross a threshold that is situated at about 85 dB SPL. Furthermore, it takes time to damage those receptors, the time needed being inversely proportional to the SPL level.
While it is true that the hearing habits of new generations are probably causing a partially deaf population in twenty years from now, if you have a computer emitting more than 85 dB SPL at short distance, you have other problems in addition to those hearing-related.
the way i have it in my house (Score:4)
with the volume set to maximum, i can't hear the computer at all.
granted, i can't hear the phone or the doorbell either, but, hey i've gotta make sacrifices...
on the other hand, i quietpc would be really useful to make an all-in-one audio/video component.
for between 500-1000 you can easily make a machine that can replace a 100-disc changer (using high quality mp3s, ogg, or whatever), a video player (not only DVDs, but any movie format, as long as you have the codec), a tv recorder (using a tv-in card), a DSS satellite system (*nix hack released a few weeks ago), all without any development at all. With software development, you can make nearly anything, especially since the hardware interfaces to various other mediums have already been developed (optical audio, tv-out, infrared remotes, etc...)
Watercooling really works.... (Score:5)
I was lucky enough to build an audio workstation for a friend of mine. The box needed to be very quiet - but due to SCSI length limits, I could not just run a KVM switch through the wall. I'd done a little watercooling of my own for the CPU, but koolance [koolance.com] gave me some great ideas for cooling off things like HDDs & power supplies. Last I checked, koolance won't sell you a PS or HHD cooler alone, but they are not too hard to build if you have access to some simple milling equipment.
Anyhow, I got waterblocks for anything running hot and ran waterlines to another room for cooling. As long as the water is near room temp, you really don't have cond. issues...
Water cooling is just like building a PC for the first time. Use care... once you've done it once or twice, you wonder why everyone does not do it. Happy hacking.
Carillon PCs (UK) (Score:2)
Popular topic (Score:3)
Building the Quiet PC [slashdot.org]
Building Quieter Computers [slashdot.org]
Computers And The Noise They Make [slashdot.org]
Quieting those Fans [slashdot.org]
Silent Computing? [slashdot.org]
Quieter Computers [slashdot.org]
Re:If you want a quiet computer... (Score:5)
Lot's of info on this website (Score:2)
This is an interesting trend. (Score:2)
It used to be that speed was everything in a computer. If that meant stuffing your case full of noisy fans, so be it. Now that computers are way faster than we really need them to be, people's priorities for their boxen are changing.
I was able to buy a G4 Cube recently because I don't really NEED more than 450 mhz right now. It was more important to me that my box was small, sleek, and silent (no fans! w00t!). I think in the future we can expect a lot more computers being easier to live with rather than being performance beasts.
All about the cooler (Score:4)
I've never even heard my PC (Score:2)
Also, I'm not a geek enough yet to keep my computer in my bedroom. Sheesh.
This is not news (Score:4)
Does anyone have a URL for the NetBSD port?
Nothing too interesting there (Score:5)
Just to name a few. And of course you typically want a low-RPM hard disk (though the new quiet Seagate drive sounds promising), low-rotation CD-ROM drive (use a drive with Zen's TrueX multibeam technology and you'll still have fast reads), etc.
Apple's iMac Cube is proof that it's possible to build a computer with no fans whatsoever. Hopefully it's a harbinger of things to come.
Re:Where does all this noise come from? (Score:3)
http://www.storagereview.com (Score:2)
Actually, Maxtor has been selling the excess inventory of Quantum drives as store brand drives for places like CompUSA, where I bought mine as a CompUSA branded on the outside, but Quantum 1ct on the inside, drive. Of course, you can't quite guarantee a Quantum drive will be in the box unless you can talk the store clerk into letting you take a peek, but right now it might be worth it if you want one of these near-silent drives: CompUSA has a sale on the 30GB store brand model for 50-something dollars after rebate. Always needing more backups of my mp3s and pr0n as I do, I'm heading there soon myself.
Pioneer 10x DVD-ROM (Score:3)
A distinct bonus is that you can easily find upgraded firmware on the big DVD hacking sites that will disable the drive's region coding. That's true of several drives, but make sure whatever drive you get isn't region-locked unless a good hacked firmware is available; that is, if you like to import DVDs, which I personally do. Fuck, they still haven't released an anamorphic version of *True Romance* in the U.S., and they refuse to make an "uncut" version of Kubrick's love-it-or-hate-it masterpiece *Eyes Wide Shut* in America. But I digress...
Re:More Tips (Score:2)
Junk the Fan (Score:2)
Tesla-turbine fan: smooth disks rather than bladed rotors, more efficient and virtually silent. http://www.execpc.com/~teba/
Pezo-thermal heat sink: no more fan on the CPU, just put a thin layer of thermal pezo-film between the CPU and the heat sink. active cooling.
ok, the disk-drive noise is something that only shielding will take care of, but getting rid of the fan noise will do wonders.
Bob-
Two other approaches (Score:2)
Interesting, but nothing terrribly unexpected in the article.
If one wanted to be a little more adventurous, I think it should be possible to drop the noise level with mufflers, the same way they do it with vehicles?.First cut the vibration down by double-casing the unit with shocks in between the inner and outer enclosure, then deaden the sound from the fans by putting baffles in there.
Alternatively, you could drop the temperature of the ambient intake air so that less would be needed to cool the CPU and drives. Perhaps a chilled-water heat exchanger construction would suit.
Silent PC? How am I supposed to sleep? (Score:4)
If you want a quiet computer... (Score:5)
Re:More Tips (Score:2)