Hi All! New guy here. I'd just like to say that I'm really glad to be part of the group. I've recently become very interested in the whole silent PC ...
Hi Everybody, I'm interested in building a silent PC (or as near to silent as possible), an audio PC which will be the hub of a home music recording studio....
Philip, IF you do not mind a very specialist machine... try the VIA ARTiGO Builder Kit. The first ever mainstream oriented DIY kit for the VIA Pico-ITX form...
Philip, I think you are beginning to find out some of the factors involved, but in my opinion some of your conclusions are open for question. For example, for...
David, Thanks for the detailed response. When I refer to creating a "home studio", I don't mean turning a large chunk of my home, or even a single room, into a...
Henrik, Thanks for this one. Another interesting item for the bookmarks, but, like John's suggestion (the Via Artigo Pico-ITX), it suffers from a number of...
John, This looks very interesting, but has a number of limitations which I think rule it out for me. The lack of expandibility is a show-stopper - for...
Philip, Looks like you have certain requirements that are important to you for your studio pc. Perhaps some of us can provide more system specific silent/quiet...
Now that you have given me a more detailed requirement Philip, I think I may be able to make some different observations to my first reply, some of which may...
In case you have not already discovered it, www.silentpcreview.com has literally hundreds of extremely detailed articles, reviews and recommended ranked lists...
Albert - You guys are already helping a lot. I'm a long term computer user, but new on the computer audio hardware side of things. I've pretty much figured out...
Hi Philip - I think for you, it boils down to some fairly simple factors. Rule #1 Computers make noise. To deal with this, you can handle this in three ways 1)...
a. The golden rule of silent PC is to make the machine consume less power. I'd pick AMD's 45W version of Athlon 64 X2. Intel Q6600 would not be good choice for...
John -- You've certainly given me a few things to chew on. Most notably the unexpected information that the 64bit version of Windows XP also has major problems...
Mike - I've taken a look at www.silentpcreview.com <http://www.silentpcreview.com> and agree that this is an excellent resource. I have a feeling that I'll be...
Ken - Moving the computer is not an option (not enough space - nowhere to move it to), and neither is accepting high levels of noise. So that leaves as the...
Tai, I didn't realize that the Intel Q6600 runs at 130W (I'll keep the Zalman Reserator in mind if I go with this one), or that AMD has an Athlon 64 X2 that...
Ummm, Philip I think you may be overreacting to what I said, and those "bad XP 64" stories. Despite the need to be careful about the peripherals you use. If...
Phil, First, I still think you are looking at rather severe overkill for an audio production unit. Audio just isn't that much of a stressor for a modern ...
John - I'm basing most of my criticism of WinXP 64 on the comments that you (and others) have made about the poor memory management on systems with lots of...
David, I've never been much interested in the "biggest, baddest" rat-race, and for a general purpose computer, I'd be more than happy with a mid-range machine....
... From: "Philip Friel" <phil.friel@...> ... Most people consider the elastic string suspension a bit fanatical.... until they try it themselves. And...
Phil, your's is a fair comment on the issues of XP 64. The 32-bit mode of an Intel (or compatible) 64-bit processor will never see the memory over 4GB....
Phil, I keep seeing you reply about things you're "keen on" that fly in the face of some of your other statements/requirements. USB connection has considerable...
Hi David - Earlier you made the assertion that a quad-core cpu would be overkill for music production. To my knowledge, many music production packages (Cubase,...
... though. ... . until ... This is why I mentioned SmartDrive. The suspension is a lot cheaper than SmartDrive, but, if you have money to burn for Q6600,...
Perhaps a silly question Mike, but pertinent to my current and future needs and save me a fair bit of experimentation; and ignoring for a moment the noise...
Not silly, John. I have very little patience for the bulk of extruded aluminum encasements for HDDs. Generally, they don't reduce noise or vibration -- they...
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