My son is going to use a Do-It-Yourself Windows system computer. He is interested in obtaining quiet operation of the computer, though probably not actually...
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Personally, I think bringing in air from the center of the bottom is a mistake. For one thing, how do the drives get their cooling? For another, it is...
I can really second David's comments on dirty filters today. I just returned from working on my brother's PC. It really only gets cleaned when I look at it,...
Will and Martin, I have to ask a question of you both... hopefully before you buy your TFT screens. What do you use the computer for? I have both a TFT and a...
If your CRT is actually making more noise than when it's receiving signal from another system, have you tried checking the resolution and refresh rates are the...
The noise the monitor makes isn't really an issue, I was just trying to illustrate how quiet the machine is! As I do a lot of photo work, I will probably be...
For those wishing for a good stock solution to noise and blazing video performance... http://www.hardwarezone.com/news/view.php?id=1047&cid=6&src=rss Its...
For those wishing for a good stock solution to noise and blazing video performance... http://www.hardwarezone.com/news/view.php?id=1047&cid=6&src=rss Its...
Hello Silent PC group, I was wondering if anyone else has come across examples of the Super Flower Power Suply. The examle I have uses a 120mm cooling fan to...
Hello group I am about to buy a silent system. The computer will be used for business applications and educative games (not 3d games). The sound subsystem...
Frederic, I cannot advise you on specific hardware in this class, as I do not know the prices there. That said, why would you want a system in which you "had...
... It's probably about the cheapest small quiet setup you could put together with a fast CPU. I strongly recommend getting a Northwood core if you can, and a...
... This is something I recommend for *EVERY* hard drive in *ANY* system that you want to run truly quietly. HDD vibrations get into any PC chassis and ...
Mike, My mistake about the HDD...in my haste, I was thinking "suspend" as in "stop" rather than physically suspending it. Too many things going on at once,...
I plan to include a dvd writer in a system I am building. An old trick with noisy cd drives was to use a drive speed limiting software. The problem was that...
Thanks for all your answers. David, I did find via systems here, but your discussion with Mike showed me there were performance issues. Mike, thank you for...
Frederic, Please note that 2.5 inch hard drives are *slow*. It matters little how fast your CPU is if you cannot retrieve hard disk data quickly enough. I...
... Have you used them recently? The 5400rpm models with 8 or 16mb cache are quite speedy. The 4200mb drives are definitely slower, but it's still not that bad...
Mike, The engineering parameters of the two drives are quite different. Shock ratings have mostly to do with the methods the head assembly is designed, since...
If I may add my little experience, I have had three laptops which account for 4 hard disks. The two first laptops (and the three first hds) did become noisy...
anyone here know of a good peltier system I can use for my system? planning on using them for cpu, gpu, and case cooling I want to somehow use heatpipes to...
Most peltier coolers I've seen have a relatively short life, and when they go you suddenly have no cooling at all and the system may quickly burn up...which is...
I tried a peltier once, The you need much more cooling than just the normal cooling plus the peltier overhead. They are strange things peltiers, not just a...
Hello, Joseph, Sorry - I've been away for a while, but my experience is that a standard computer will raise the temperature of entire insulated 15' x 20' room...
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