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How to Build a Fast Air-Cooled Quiet PC
msolnik writes "Tweak3D.net has posted an article over how to build yourself a fast box that doesn't sound like an airplane hanger. Its nice to find something like this - most articles are just about speed this article combines performance and usability. If your interested in building a fast pc that you don't have to put in " See my thoughts on this as well.
Why are they doing this article a few days AFTER Christmas when everyone already has their new uber-ninja machines? It's too late to build a nice quiet one!
This is a very bland and non-revolutionary article. I was expecting something new and exciting, but it was not delivered.
The whole area of cooling for home PC's is very lacking in innovation. Most of the heatsinks are horribly flawed in the way in which they function. Very disappointing overall. There are plenty of changes I'd like to see made. I'll have to call up some heatsink companies and get them to give me some money for my ideas.
Soundproofing would most likely involve closing up all possible places where sound (as well as air) could escape... I think you've just defeated the purpose of air cooling.
After reading the article this is what I got out of it ..
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Here is what I want
Here is the system I spoolley all over for
iMa leet kewl doOd
Daddy is going to buy this for me
Film at 11
I mean the the article was written without testing
The heatsink fan on the northbridge of the KR7A-RAID isn?t that loud, but it causes vibration which produces noise. For that, you could just take off the fan. The KT266A should run fine using a passive heatsink,
Should? Should? Gawd
Has this system even been built? All I see are pictures found on the products web pages.
Where is completed project?
Where is test of the decibals of it?
-- Knowing too much can get you killed, but knowing who knows too much can make you rich.
Very likely not very loud, but it also is likely to be silent. If you want to pack this amount of components into a tiny case like this one you will need good cooling. Also you don't have much space for a big fan, because of that you will need a small fan that must spin very fast to move enough air around to cool the thing. My suggestion is to use a cpu that stays cool like a celeron 1200 and use a very big and temperature controlled fan in a big case.
Or don't try to make your PC silent and simply use a KVM extender to get away from the noise. Who cares how loud your pc is if you work 20 m (60ft)and two walls away ?
Jan
Yeah, Apple.
The "timeline of heat" jumps right from early Pentium to Thunderbird with no mention of the K5, K6, Cyrix, IDT, etc. Reading the article, one would think that waste heat has been constantly increasing unchecked. In reality, AMD made serious efforts to reduce waste heat after the K6/233. IDT came out with their WinChip line which runs very cool. So cool that it can stay in-spec with a big heatsink and no fan. It may not be a good foundation for a bleeding-edge game box but it'll run office apps just fine. Intel's mobile CPUs go to great lengths to both reduce heat and extend runtime by using less power.
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And what about PPC chips? G3? G4? Heck, Apple's got their cubes and imacs running fanless. That "article" is just a big old ad for cooling systems.
what a lousy article. they manage to get an average 2 paragraphs in before I have to click onto another page. have to get that advertising dollar, don't you? I quit at page three.
I would have liked to see included an example of a water cooling system or even the author's assembled system with some db emission readings. I was a bit disappointed by the last bit about removing all fans, that's about as recommended as using your laptop in the bathtub and should have been more strongly discouraged.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
move your damn couch then fool
I went to find me some insight to quiteing my computer, and instead it was cleverly written AD.
I highly suggest the use of Crucial PC2100 for there price and quality.
Why do you need to recommend the type of ram I use? It had not insightful ideas on how to quite my system. But was more interested in recommending products to me, and companies i should buy from. If the guy mentions pricewatch one more time... grr.
The article went as far as to recommend the type of case i should use and how much i can get it for, but didn't bother to recommend a specific type of water cooling, or where i could learn more about water cooling.
Like I said it seem very much geared towards selling the products mentioned, rather then teaching anything about quiteing my pc.
If you can't fix it ask the 3 year old down the street.
it eliminates resonation from the front window and adds an airspace to increase the sound deadining abilities. I suggested no having a plexi front door and use a nice plywood with sonex on it but management figures that the employees would get confused and start crying on the floor when they cant see the blinkey lights. (Yes people are that wierd, espically voice over talent.)
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.