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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.

293 comments

  1. FP :) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP lol ;)

  2. you know by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i have a huge tub of FROTHY PISS here for anyone who wants it

  3. cappucino by Sebastopol · · Score: 2

    Anyone know if thing is very loud?

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    1. Re:cappucino by qurob · · Score: 0


      This is one hot little PC!

      Also, does it run cool?

    2. Re:cappucino by pinkpineapple · · Score: 2, Informative

      This thing is awefully loud my friend.

      I've bought one, and sold it just after a couple of weeks for 2 reasons:
      - video card sucks big time (not enough memory for 1280x1024 res.)
      - Noise is barely standable.

      I suppose you could fit it in a drawer, but cables and vent would be a problem. So, I say:
      Bummer!

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    3. Re:cappucino by tempmpi · · Score: 2, Insightful

      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 ?

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    4. Re:cappucino by Skweetis · · Score: 1
      I have two of them at work - they are great if you need to install a quick server in a cramped network closet. I am not sure how they are cooled, but they aren't loud at all, just a low hum (and hard disk noise, of course).

      Oh, and all the hardware is very well supported under Linux.

  4. I like to suck it hard by The+WIPO+Troll · · Score: -1
    I LIKE TO FUCK MY LITTLE SISTER! (AND OTHER SHIT) By The WIPO Troll, $Revision: 1.3 $

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    1. Re:I like to suck it hard by Fecal+Troll+Matter · · Score: -1

      Fark?

    2. Re:I like to suck it hard by The+WIPO+Troll · · Score: -1

      Oh, you better believe it. Fark DOTCOM.

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    3. Re:I like to suck it hard by Fecal+Troll+Matter · · Score: -1

      Ah, I love Fark DOTCOM! ;-0

  5. for the money by NotAnotherReboot · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It seems to me like it'd be a better idea to build a system that isn't quite the highest end, and don't buy expensive overclocking equipment. Then, when it seems to be getting a little slow, buy a new processor that will likely be faster than anything you could have overclocked for the same or less money. Sure it sounds cool to say you have an ultra high clocked system, but in 6 months when there's faster non-overclocked, who's laughing?

    1. Re:for the money by ArsonSmith · · Score: 5, Funny

      Depends on the productivity all that over clocked processor did for me. If I was able to run vi at 2Gigahertz while everyone else was coding at 1.5Gigahertz then I would have produced 25% more code than them. Over the course of 6 months or more that could be a lot of code.

      Its all about economics of scale and if I am going to get 25% more code write because of over clocking than I am far more profitable that the next guy period.

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    2. Re:for the money by choklut · · Score: 1, Troll

      I don't know about you, but my typing speed doesn't depend upon my processor speed, particularly in an editor like vi. Perhaps you are more talking about the time taken to compile that code? In which case only a proportion of your time is spent in compiling, so your time saving would be much less than 25%.

    3. Re:for the money by speculums · · Score: 1

      Or one could overclock in order to conquer 25% more imaginary landscape. Or kill 25% more imaginary enemies. I work in pubishing. In some cases, the computer-driven speedup of workflow has actually enabled people to become less efficient. These machines don't give time for one to catch one's mistakes before passing them on. Of course, this is not the computer's fault. Sometimes slow is better, and a little time between for a massage or coffee is nice too.
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    4. Re:for the money by ArsonSmith · · Score: 1

      Im sorry I ment it to be funny. I guess I should have specified that rather than assume someone might pick up on the humor on their own. My mistake.

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    5. Re:for the money by choklut · · Score: 1

      Oh I'm sorry. In that case it should be 33% more code.

    6. Re:for the money by bmoyles · · Score: 1

      Don't forget that overclocking mkaes your weiner 25% bigger too...

    7. Re:for the money by Howie · · Score: 2

      But system have been pretty damn noisy for the last couple of years - just how far back do you want to go?

      What would work better is being able to buy lower clock-speed processors using the newer (cooler-running) manufacturing processes. At the time, a Cyrix 6x86/166 need special heatsinks and whatnot. I bet you can make the same thing with only passive cooling by updating the fab processes. A K6-2/500 with no fan would be reasonably fast for an X server, and pretty quiet too. All you'd need is a decent video card from just before they all started to have fans.

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    8. Re:for the money by jred · · Score: 1

      That was probably modded up "funny" for a reason...

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    9. Re:for the money by choklut · · Score: 1

      Probably. Let me know if you find out the reason. No I'm sure it was very funny indeed, however it hadn't been modded up when I replied to it, so you can't expect me to work out that something is humorous without being explicitly told.

    10. Re:for the money by speculums · · Score: 1

      Were you trying to be funny there?
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    11. Re:for the money by choklut · · Score: 1

      Definitely not! I know my place! But now we are getting off-topic and if I could I would mod myself down so everyone knew this thread was off-topic. Otherwise I run the risk of someone replying, thinking I'm still talking about quiet PCs.

    12. Re:for the money by ArsonSmith · · Score: 1

      hehehe now that is funny

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    13. Re:for the money by AnonymousDot · · Score: 1

      Aren't you?

    14. Re:for the money by knight_23 · · Score: 1

      In vi? Sorry pal, I might have beleived you if you said MS Word.

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    15. Re:for the money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Please don't post to Slashdot again. Ever.

    16. Re:for the money by homer_ca · · Score: 1

      OK I know it was a joke, but seriously, a faster processor will save time with the compiles which is one of the few places where people really need the speed.

    17. Re:for the money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If I could I would also mod you down.

    18. Re:for the money by Billly+Gates · · Score: 2

      I can't think of anything that I could write that would take forever to compile. I know QT and kde are exceptions but I hardly ever compile them. My PentiumIII700 can compile all my homework assignments in literally seconds. Even code that is over 10k in size. As fas as I am concerned, the machine is faster then my needs.

  6. I like FROTHY PISS, Mr. Troll man! by The+WIPO+Troll · · Score: -1
    THE OFFICIAL TACO-SNOTTING FAQ By The WIPO Troll, $Revision: 1.15 $

    Why do I keep receiving emails from someone calling himself CmdrTaco?

    You have been receiving email from a certain Robert CmdrTaco Malda, owner of the popular technology website Slashdot. Actually, its not a very popular site in the common sense of the word; the site is rife with pimply, antisocial geeks, zit-faced nerds, communists, dirty GNU hippies, and other societal rejects and outcasts. Its also home to one of the worlds largest pædophile ring, the infamous Slashdot crew.
    Whenever Mr. Malda gets bored (and who wouldnt, running a site like Slashdot all day), he roams through the user database, penis in hand, looking for people who might enjoy engaging in homosexual activities with him. How he determines this is anyones guess; but if you have a homosexual-sounding nickname, or a nick with a letter of the English alphabet in it, youre in trouble.
    This time, he found you. Lucky you.

    Malda seems to be speaking in some sort of code. Do you know what it means?

    CmdrTacos code language is relatively easy to decipher. He prefers to speak in thinly-veiled sexual innuendo (yes, thats right: he wants your cum) to evade the watchful but relatively stupid eye of Slashdots parent corporation, VA Software. Mr. Maldas Commander is, of course, his penis: a small, withered little thing that lives in his pants and only comes out in the presence of other male geeks or at the beck and call of CmdrTacos own lubed-up right hand. His Taco bells are the shriveled testicles that droop beneath his Commander, and his Taco sauce is his thick, gooey semen. It should be more than obvious to you now what he means if he asked you to ring his Taco bells or taste his gourmet Taco sauce.
    I would guess he also asked you to engage in a practice known as Taco-snotting and, if he was in a particularly depraved mood at the time, a circle-snot.

    Good Lord. What is Taco-snotting?

    Taco-snotting is the term used by CmdrTaco to refer to the act of fellating a homosexual man (or unwilling heterosexual; CmdrTaco is rumoured to prefer rape), then blowing the semen out his nose onto the face and body of his partner or victim. Naturally, a long, bubbly stream of milky-white semen is left on CmdrTacos face, dribbling out of his nose and down his cheek: hence the term, Taco-snotting.
    A circle-snot is a Taco-snotting circle-jerk, another practice common among the Slashdot crew. CmdrTaco, CowboiKneel, and Homos get together and snot each other with their gooey, sticky cum spooging their jizz-snot all over each others faces and pasty, white bodies, until theyre covered head to toe with their own and each others man juice. This vile ritual can go on for hours. For the homosexual penetration that follows this lengthy foreplay, Roblowme is usually there to provide plenty of anal lubricant; he owns a limo service and has ample supplies of motor oil and axle grease ready to go.
    To complete this perverted orgy, fellow geeks Michael, Timothy, and Jamie will usually join in, dressed in tight leather mock-S.S. uniforms, jack boots, and leather gloves. The whole group then proceeds to snot each others spunk and whip each others pudgy asses with riding crops and chains until their pale, white geek bodies are exhausted and soaked in stinking sweat from the hours of passionate, homosexual revelry.

    Ewwwwww. So, can I stop receiving these emails?

    Hopefully.
    You most likely forgot to uncheck the Willing to Taco-snot checkbox in your account preferences. CmdrTaco has probably already got the hots for your wad, and hes probably already been lurking outside your bathroom window for weeks with a camera, some tissues and lube. Theres no escaping a geek in heat, so its probably too late for you, but you can possibly rectify this situation. To remove yourself from CmdrTacos sights, log into your Slashdot account, go to your user page, click on Messages, and uncheck the box next to Willing to Taco-snot. Maybe hell ignore you. Probably not.

    I cant stop receiving these emails from CmdrTaco!?

    If you indulge him in a Taco-snot or two, he might leave you alone. You might also want to look into mail filtering, restraining orders, or purchasing a heavy, blunt object capable of warding off rampaging homosexual geeks in heat. Trust me, when they charge... oh, the humanity. If he gets you, and you let him Taco-snot you, you will most likely end up tied up in his basement to be used as his sex slave for the rest of your life (or until he accidentally drowns you in spunk in a circle-snot).

    Have you ever been Taco-snotted?

    Unfortunately, yes. I first met CmdrTaco at an Open Source Convention. He invited me back to his room for a game of Quake and some gourmet Tacos, but when I got there, he jumped me and tied me to his bed, stripping me. After taking his Commander out of his pants, Mr. Taco made me suck the withered thing six times. He then performed his vile Taco-snotting ritual on me three times over the next two hours, bringing me to orgasm after sweaty, mind-numbing orgasm... then he snotted my own milky-white jizz back onto my face, into my mouth, then again on my exposed belly.
    CmdrTaco invited several of his Open Source (or rather, Open Sauce man sauce) buddies over to continue the twisted snotfest. Linux Torvalds raped my ass with his monolithic kernel, and Anal Cox used his network stack in a multitude of unspeakable ways on and in every orifice in my defenseless body. Michael was there in his leather Nazi uniform, caning my ass with a bamboo pole and ranting about all those Censorware freaks out to get him.
    How did you finally escape, you ask? After about 16 hours of countless homosexual atrocities perpetrated against my restrained body, they all finally went to sleep on top of me, sweat-soaked and exhausted. I was left there, covered in bubbly, translucent jizz-snot, chained to the bed, with half a dozen fat, pasty-white fags lying around and on top of me. Fortunately the spooge coating my flesh worked wonderfully as a lubricant; I was able to squirm my way out of the handcuffs and slip out the back door. Im just glad I survived the ordeal. These geeks had a lot of built-up spunk in their wads I couldve easily been drowned!

    Thats horrible. Does Taco-snotting have anything to do with CmdrTacos special taco?

    No, thats a different disgusting perversion CmdrTaco indulges himself in. CmdrTaco is usually not satisfied with merely snotting your own jizz back onto your face, he most often enjoys involving his own bodily fluids in his twisted games. WeatherTroll has spent some time trying to educate the Slashdot readership about this vile practice (emphasis added):
    You may be wondering what CmdrTacos special taco is. You will be wishing that you hadnt been wondering after you finish reading this post. To make his special taco, CmdrTaco takes a taco shell and shits on it. He then adds lettuce, takes out his tiny withered dick (otherwise known as his Commander), puts his special taco sauce on it which means he jacks off on the taco, and adds a compound to make the person who eats the taco unconscious. Of course, the compound does not make the person unconscious until the taco is fully eaten. Thus CmdrTaco force-feeds the taco to the unsuspecting victim. After all, who would knowingly eat shit and CmdrTacos jizz?
    After the victim is unconscious, he is held against his will and used for CmdrTacos nefarious homosexual purposes. This includes shoving taco shells up the victims ass, Taco-snotting, and getting Jon Katz involved. Trust me, you do not want Jon Katz anywhere near your unconscious body. Also, rumor has it CmdrTaco is looking for a new goatse.cx guy. Dont let it be you!
    Completely different, yet no less revolting. It should be clear to you now that CmdrTaco is a very, very sick individual, as are most of the Slashdot editors.

    Does Jon Katz get involved in any of this? I thought he was a pædophile, not a homosexual.

    Actually, Jon Katz is a homosexual pædophile. Hes also a coprophiliac, and, many suspect, a zoophile. Jon Katz is somewhat of a loner and doesnt involve himself in circle-snots. Mr. Katz usually engages in a game called Katz juicy-douching with his harem of little-boy slaves: a vile practice which involves administering an enema to himself of the little boys urine (forced out of them with a pair of pliers), spooging the vile muck from his ass back into the enema bag, then squirting and slathering the goo all over himself, and the little boys chained-up and naked bodies. If hes in the mood, he will sometimes skip refilling the enema bag from his distended anus and just squirt it from his ass onto his boys. Unwilling boys are further tortured with the pliers until they comply and allow Mr. Katz to juicy-douche them at will usually for the rest of their lives.
    As I already said, Mr. Katz is also a zoophile. As if the sexual escapades with the helpless little boys arent enough, Jon usually enjoys his juicy-douches best when his penis is firmly planted in a female goats anus. He is also rumoured to get off on watching his little boys eat the goats small, bean-like turds.

    Are you getting hard writing this?

    Why, yes. :) Join me in a WIPO-snot?

    No, thanks. Im already CmdrTacos boi toi.

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  7. Useful article by RagManX · · Score: 1

    Could have used this info months ago. Asked on several forums if there was a quiet way to keep my system cool while allowing me to run at a good enough speed to run modern games. The answer was always something along the lines of "Go with watercooling, or suffer with the noise from a delta."

    I ended up settling for a system with decent, but not cutting edge speed (1 Gig TBird when 1.2 was the standard), moderate noise levels (audible in the room, but not annoying from outside the room), and decent but warm temps (around 48 C at full load).

    RagManX

  8. Noise Schmoize by Rayonic · · Score: 1

    Any way to just soundproof my PC case?

    1. Re:Noise Schmoize by SID*C64 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      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.

    2. Re:Noise Schmoize by ackthpt · · Score: 1

      Worst noise I ever experienced was mini fan bearings going. I've seen somewhere a fan that actually flaps, rather than spins, wish I could remember where. Anyone seen the like?

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    3. Re:Noise Schmoize by Lumpy · · Score: 5, Informative

      Yes, and it's dirt cheap and easy.

      1 - build a wooden case that allows you to slide the computer into it with about 2 inches of space all around. insulate the box with sonex. or hospital bed padding (same stuff, and loads cheaper.) make the door out of plexiglass, 2 layers spaced about 1/4 inch apart and not parallel to each other (I.E. a slant on the inside pane.

      on the back you add 2 ducts, one high, and one low. duct these with dryer vent outside the room and place a blower on the out vent, a small filter on the in vent ( the in must be in the building, the out can be vented outside.)

      Voila, 100% silent PC god enought for a recording both (well that's what we use in our sound booth. the equipment registers no sound change at the microphones with the computers in the box on or off. or with the blower on or off. and a human cant tell either.)

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    4. Re:Noise Schmoize by ThatComputerGuy · · Score: 2

      Go grab some DynaMat. Check out their site, I was surprised to see they actually have a "computers" section.

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    5. Re:Noise Schmoize by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I once worked on a system once where the user had applied musicians sound proofing foam to the major panels in the case. He said it helped quite a bit. Its about 1/4" thick.

    6. Re:Noise Schmoize by Barbarian · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Yes, you just need to add noise-dampening panels to the sides of the case.

      A lot of the noise you hear when the case is closed is the case resonating at the 1/2, 1 and 2 * wavelengths of the sound coming off of the cooling equipment (the fans tend to put off white noise of many wavelengths).

      You just gotta make sure you aren't obstructing the airflow. I'm going to do this myself, and on my case, you can put panels on the left and right, top and bottom without obstructing airflow. Front and back have to remain unblocked, although the front is possible to do too if room is left where the built-in vent areas are. Worse designed cases may make this impossible.

      The stuff I'm going to use goes for about $4 per square foot, and is about 1/4 inch thick.

      If you can't get this type of noise-reducing panel from your local computer retailer, go to a hardware store and get drop ceiling tile, as thin as possible (preferably 1/4 inch if they make it), cut it to size, and glue it into your panels.

    7. Re:Noise Schmoize by Barbarian · · Score: 2

      A little note, the stuff I'm using is the "V-block VB-2" paneling.

      Just search for that on Yahoo for more information.

    8. Re:Noise Schmoize by xtp · · Score: 2, Informative

      Adding stiffening material of one kind or another
      to the case components which can act as acoustic
      membranes (i.e. loudspeakers) can reduce or kill
      a good portion of high-frequency vibration noise.
      That's the most irritating noise for most folks.

      I have more rotating disk spindles than box fans
      or cpu coolers. The disks contribute hugely
      to the background buzz. Mounting the disks
      on rubber grommets and vibration-damping the
      supporting structure does help. Now that we're
      slowly converting to disk trays (each with a fan),
      it seems easier to apply damping to the disks
      as part of the tray assembly via foam/rubber
      standoffs.

      A technically better cooling solution that's less of a
      challenge than water cooling involves pumping
      cold air through the box. The cool air source and air pump are in a noisy equipment
      room or outside the building. The pressurized
      air is pushed into the computer box and pulled
      out. Using cold air means less air total flow is
      needed.

      I saw this technique implemented years ago
      - it was astonishingly effective: you couldn't
      tell the equipment was powered up.

    9. Re:Noise Schmoize by thogard · · Score: 1

      I added some car sound insulation liners on the sides of my case. They are some sort of tar with foil on one side and come precut at 1sq ft. It dropped the noise quite a bit.

      What I want is a decent sleep system. I've got 1/2 gig of ram and IDE drives that know how to sleep. Can't someone figure out how to get the kernal sync code to figure out if the drive is sleeping and postpone needless writes?

    10. Re:Noise Schmoize by RollingThunder · · Score: 2

      I hope their product works better than their web designer.

      I just love when half the links are to "file:C:\My Computer".

    11. Re:Noise Schmoize by Freija+Crescent · · Score: 0

      Noise gives my system a sense of authority. And that has many advantages...

      At lan parties :
      Dude 1 : I need another power outlet...
      Dude 2 : No! Don't unplug that loud fscker.. unplug that cappucino over there...

      At home :
      Me : Nevermind the mess.. typical coding room, i try to keep it clean bu...
      Co-worker : WHOA!! How fast is that thing? It's huge....

      On the phone :
      Me : Hold on just a moment, i'm going to call home and see if my workstation is still on..
      Friend : How??
      Me : Oh, i can hear it across the house...*click*. Oh hi dear.. just seeing if you were OK.. =)

      --
      . echo -e \\04 > /dev/hand1
    12. Re:Noise Schmoize by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      haha, NICE! l'd mao

  9. Not quiet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Front242 is NOT quiet.

    Today he has no means, he's alone and anonymous
    But written in his cells he has got the marks og the genius
    I'm looking for this man to sell him to other men
    To sell him to other men at ten times the price at least
    I'm looking for this man who knows the rules of the game
    Who's able to forget them to realize my aim
    I'm looking for this man to make us rich and famous

    One - You lock the target
    Two - You bait the line
    Three- You slowly spread the net

    I love it!

    1. Re:Not quiet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      I'm the guide of the lost
      I'm the friend of the weak
      From underneath the cowl
      I'm staring at your soul
      I see it black, I see it small

      I feel the weight of the sins you haul
      I'm the trusting friend you need
      You're the open book I read

      chorus: I'm here to save you

      I see you sail night and day
      On a sea where the waves
      Always force you back
      It won't take me more than one strike
      To release your soul from the cares of life
      I'm your guide through the night
      Through the night to the light

      I see you sink deeper down
      In an ocean of pain
      Always force them down
      You shouldn't be afraid
      I'm your everlasting mate
      Always force you down

      A voice pierces your ears
      My words enter your brain

    2. Re:Not quiet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      and Four - You catch the man.

    3. Re:Not quiet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Thank you.

      Looks like I missed that.

  10. My sister likes 'em big and veiny! by The+WIPO+Troll · · Score: -1
    I LIKE TO FUCK MY LITTLE SISTER! (AND OTHER SHIT) By The WIPO Troll, $Revision: 1.3 $

    Whats black, blue and green and doesnt like sex? The Girl Scout locked in my basement. Whats the worst part about having sex with a six year-old? Getting the blood out of your clown suit. Whats the best thing about getting a hand job from a five year-old? That little hand makes your thing look really huge. Guy comes home from work to find his girlfriend sitting on the porch, crying. Whats wrong, honey? Im leaving you! I just found out youre a pædophile! Pædophile? Why, thats a pretty big word for a ten year-old. How can you tell when your sisters on her period? When your dads dick tastes like blood! Two pedophiles are lying on a beach tanning, one turns to the other and says, Excuse me, youre in my son. Whats 18 inches long, blue, veiny, and makes a woman cry? Crib death. How could the mans seven year-old son tell that his dad had fucked his eight year-old sister? His dads weiner tasted like blood! Watson returns home to find Holmes in bed with a child. He shouts, Is this some sort of a schoolgirl? Holmes replies, Elementary, my dear Watson. So I was having sex with my girlfriend, and I decided I wanted to get kinky and try and do her in the ass. So I slipped around back; she looked over her shoulder at me and said, My, how presumptuous of you. I said, Presumptuous? Thats a big word for a ten year-old. Two guys are walking down the street when a beautiful woman passes. The first guy says, Damn! Id love to tear her clothes off, do her in the rear, smear my fæces all over her, slice off her breasts, chop her into little pieces, put her in a garbage bag and toss her into the river! Second guy says, Yuck! Youre a sick bastard! First guy says, Whatre you? A fag? A kindergarten teacher is asking the kids what their father does for a living. All the kids answer except for Little Johnny. The teacher asks Little Johnny what his Dad does and Johnny replies, My dad is dead. The teacher says, Thats terribile, but what did he do before he died? Little Johnny replies, He turned blue and shit all over himself! A guy calls in sick to work. Whats wrong? asks the boss. Im sick, the guy replies. You sound all right. No, Im really sick. Believe me. Listen, you were fine yesterday, and we have a lot of work today. I want you in here. You cant be that sick! Dude, I just banged my sister. Dont tell me Im not sick. A little girl accompanied her father to the barbershop. While her dad received a haircut, the little girl stood next to the barber chair, enjoying a snack cake. The barber smiled at her and said, Sweetheart, youre going to get hair on your Twinkie. I know, the little girl replied. Im gonna get tits, too. An older man and a small boy walk hand in hand through the woods. Boy: These woods sure are spooky! Man: You think youre scared, Ive gotta walk out of here alone. Whats the difference between Neil Armstrong and Michael Jackson? One walked on the moon, and the other rapes little boys. Has anyone read Michael Jacksons new book, The Ins and Outs of Child Rearing? Q: Whats the difference between a dead baby and a golden delicious apple? A: I dont cum all over the golden delicious apple before I take a bite out of it. Q: Whats the difference between a dead baby and my girlfriend? A: I dont kiss my girlfriend after sex. Q: What is special about a dead baby over all other forms of life? A: You can achieve deep throat from whichever way you enter. Q: What do you have when you have four dead babies, take away two, and add five more? A: An orgy! Q: Whats the difference between a dead baby and a table? A: You cant fuck a table. Q: Whats white and bobs up and down in a babys crib? A: A pædophiles ass. Q: Whats the safest way to play with a baby? A: With a condom. Q: Whats more fun than feeling up a dead baby? A: Feeling up a dead baby with three nipples. Q: What does a baby and a Pinto have in common? A: Theyre fun to ride until they die. Q: What do you get whan you dislocate a dead babys jaw? A: Deep throat. Q: Whats the difference between a baby and a grandmother? A: Grandmothers dont die when you fuck them in the ass. Q: Whats the best sound in the world? A: Hearing dead babys hips crack under pressure! Q: Whats worse than a having sex with a dead baby? A: Having sex with a dead baby filled with razor blades. Q: How do you stop a baby from choking? A: Take your dick out of its mouth. Q: Whats worse than finding a dead baby on your pillow in the morning? A: Realizing you were drunk and made love to it the night before. Q: How do you make a baby cry twice? A: Wipe your bloody cock on his teddy bear. Whats better than sex with a twelve year-old boy? Absolutely nothing. ________________________________________

    Thanks to Fark.com for all of these wonderfully sick jokes! I couldnt have done it without you! And thanks to all the Anonymous Cowards who have flamed me, I have three words for you! YHBT! YHL! HAND!

    Apparently this post is extremely good at getting biters. According to an anonymous coward, Attorney General Ashcroft is also after little old WIPO Troll now, in addition to the Canadian cops-on-a-horse that another A.C. sent after me a couple days earlier. Well, this should be fun. Keep up the biting, Slashdotters!

    ________________________________________
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    Copyright © 2001 The WIPO Troll. Verbatim crapflooding of this document is permitted in any medium, provided this copyright notice is preserved, and next time you take a dump, you think of the WIPO Troll and all hes done to make Slashdot a better place.
    --

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    Crapflooder Associates
    Slashdot.org

  11. Man... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i wish i had some dank, sticky nugs right about now.

    The bong just looks so lonely, sitting there with nothing in its bowl.

    Ah well, back to the bottle.

    1. Re:Man... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Worse than that I have NUGS and a drug test comming up so... What's worse? My bong is lonely too.

  12. Too late by Jucius+Maximus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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!

  13. again? by Sebastopol · · Score: 5, Informative

    What a terrible article. With the exception of the power supply, there is absolutely nothing new! There are three really good articles on this in /. already. And he doesn't even mention the 5-1/4" sleeves for HDDs! Why is this article even posted?!

    Other articles on /.:

    Shhh! Constructing A Truly Quiet Gaming PC by Hemos with 397 comments on Wednesday October 31, @08:30AM

    Building the Quiet PC by CmdrTaco with 171 comments on Sunday July 01, @02:08PM

    Building Quieter Computers by Hemos with 398 comments on Monday June 04, @06:51AM

    --
    https://www.accountkiller.com/removal-requested
    1. Re:again? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I personally like the repeats. All of us do not read slashdot everyday! The repeats give people like me the chance to catch something we've missed before. Plus, if you've already read the article or a similar one just skip it! You don't have to read every article posted to slashdot, and you should have better things to do with your time than complaing about repeat articles on slashdot

    2. Re:again? by skt · · Score: 1

      The only problem that I have with the hard disc sleeves is that I can only find ones rated for ATA 5400 RPM drives :( My 7200 RPM SCSI drive is not that noisy and it blows away the low performance value drives... Granted that 7200 RPM and 10K RPM drives do generate a lot of heat, but just buy a big case and mount them away from the other components and it will be just fine. Most desktop machines only need one hard disc anyway.

    3. Re:again? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I agree. "Another quiet pc article?" was exactly my mental response when I saw this.

      Why can't we just acknowledge that there are certain topics on slashdot that we will have a continued interest in (apartments with ethernet is another topic that comes to mind) and create a "topics of interest" resource of information. Then the slashdot editors can notify us when theres an update and everyone can easily access the repository of information.

      Anyone with some power at slashdot listening? I'm giving you ideas for keeping your site "fresh" because its getting a little stale. We've had the same slashdot look for years now.

    4. Re:again? by nil_null · · Score: 1

      The quiet PC articles been done many times, but none of them seem to really do the trick. Good air cooling is always going to be a little noisy. Even with watercooling you need fans to cool the radiator.

    5. Re:again? by the_2nd_coming · · Score: 1

      well, I am going to start using electrolitic Gel. :-p

      --



      I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
    6. Re:again? by GigsVT · · Score: 1

      Two 5400 ATA drives in a RAID0 both cost less than your 7200 RPM SCSI, but are also much faster.

      --
      I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
    7. Re:again? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Not if you run software RAID and hardware RAID IDE card costs about as much as a SCSI equivalent -- why settle for inferior IDE tech when you can get SCSI for the same price?

    8. Re:again? by BRTB · · Score: 1
      My cheap homemade answer to mirrored-HD cooling:
      1. Mount 2 7200-RPM drives next to each other in 5.25"-bay adapters
      2. Take a couple face plates and glue them together
      3. Cut a circular hole across both, about 80MM diameter
      4. Drill screw holes to hold fan
      5. Mount fan to blow air over drives (chrome grille on the outside is optional, but looks nice)

      It's not exactly professional, but it keeps the drives cool. =]
    9. Re:again? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Two 5400 ATA drives in a RAID0 both cost less and together are faster than your 7200 RPM SCSI, but one SCSI is safer for important data.

    10. Re:again? by Toraz+Chryx · · Score: 1

      Anyone who knows what access time is would disagree with that statement.

      me included.

      the reason 7200rpm and 10k, and even 15k rpm disks are faster is because the rotational latency is lower, so the heads can be over the correct bit of data sooner.

      raid-0 using a pair of 5400rpm disks might give nice sustained read speeds, but I'd be willing to bet it wouldn't be significantly faster than a single top of the line ATA100 disk or an u160 10k or 15k scsi disk. (fyi, 10k disks are edging towards 60MB/s sustained, and ATA100 disks aren't far behind, although their access times are slower)

    11. Re:again? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      what the smeg? this was a 5, and has a legitimate point and now its dropping in mod points and is flamebait... thats total bullshit.

    12. Re:again? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You better take a shower and wipe the smeg of your little thingie. It has been growing far too long.

  14. Make it fast, sure, but also use a real OS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Linux is, at best, a toy operating system. At worst it is the kind of subversive force in America that Stalin only dreamed of creating.

    There are "cells" reporting to unknown leaders that only go by names like "L33t_Kernal_Hax0r" that cannot be located - after all, "living in my momma's basement cause I have no real world skills to speak of" is not a true street address.

    There is the Marxist concept of "give what you can, take what you need." Only, none of these people can give anything, excepting the few heroes of the revolution that have their own roach filled apartments and must give blow jobs in parks monthly to meet their rent. Yet, they all feel the need to take, take, take. MP3s? "We must have them! It is about freedom for the artists!!" Software? "We must have it for free! It will be good then!!" Movies? "Yes, we must have them for free!!!" Of course, the dirty secret all of these "give it to me free!!!" people are trying to hide is that they have no resources to actually acquire anything legitimate, due to their pathetic skill set and the fact that society has no use for them.

    Society, in fact, had no use for them even during their formative years. That's why their lunch money was stolen. Darwin's law was trying to assert itself, but overprotectively indulgent parenting prevented such a thing from happening

    1. Re:Make it fast, sure, but also use a real OS by lowtekneq · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      And what real world skills do you have, other then acting like a billy badass. I run linux, im not a huge fan but i like it plenty. But linux is not a toy operating system. Its free so it costs less for a biz. Its stable (say for servers) its good for development.. err programmers. Must i say more?

      --
      Carpe meam simiam!
    2. Re:Make it fast, sure, but also use a real OS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      I took your lunch money on a regular basis.

    3. Re:Make it fast, sure, but also use a real OS by fro_less · · Score: 1

      Too much thought went into that, hmm looks bait, smells like bait ...

    4. Re:Make it fast, sure, but also use a real OS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      no, we really just wish you would shut up, let the moderators mark you parent post -1 flamebait, and move on with the discussion. You, and now I tring to correct you, have waisted space that people will have to scroll over to read the rest of the posts. Don't envolve your self with a flame war, and never reply to a AC... it just doesn't make sense.

    5. Re:Make it fast, sure, but also use a real OS by Not+The+Real+Me · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Well, M$ Troll, I hate to tell you this but *REAL* companies do use Linux. As a consultant, I've installed Linux as a file/print server, and as a e-mail/web server/router in several dozen businesses. Granted, the workstations at those businesses were Win9X, but the databases, documents and spreadsheets are stored on the Linux server. E-Mail is served and delivered via Linux. And their web sites are hosted on Linux. The only things stored on the Win9X workstations are M$ apps, or fat clients that cannot be installed on the Linux server. Businesses are astounded when I've upgraded their NT systems to Linux and they are no longer required to babysit their file/print servers. Grow up M$ Troll. This world is big enough for everyone, although you and M$ seem to have trouble understanding that.

    6. Re:Make it fast, sure, but also use a real OS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Where on earth do you get off calling me an MS troll? Did I ever mention MS? Absolutely not. I just derided Linux. There are many, many OS types out there besides just Linux and MS' products. As a consultant, I would certainly hope you are aware of that. Jeez, if I hired you to do some consulting work for me, and realized that everything was either Linux or MS to you, I would have to demand my money back from your parent company.

    7. Re:Make it fast, sure, but also use a real OS by negacao · · Score: 0

      Hahahahaha! The thought of a loser like you hiring someone? Non become non-AC stat and show your true self, so we may laugh at your blatant stupidity. ___AS___

    8. Re:Make it fast, sure, but also use a real OS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Jeez, are you still angry about losing your lunch money so often? Such blatantly insulting language from someone with only half a command of the English language would be disconcerting if it wasn't so funny.

    9. Re:Make it fast, sure, but also use a real OS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      Yes, gaining a user account on Slashdot is quite the symbol of financial success, after all. I mean, hey, look at CmdrTaco!

      --sdem

    10. Re:Make it fast, sure, but also use a real OS by Burgundy+Advocate · · Score: 1

      HAHAHAHAHA!

      You called it "M$"

      OMG dood that is so funny!

      Yuo really showed that trool!

      *sniff* It's the hilarious comments that always keep me coming back for more hits!!!

      --
      Dragging people kicking and screaming into reality since 1996.
  15. try this stuff by lowtekneq · · Score: 1

    Try using Dynamic Dynamat [www.dynamat.com]. The company says it can cut the noise by 9dB.

    --
    Carpe meam simiam!
    1. Re:try this stuff by nmos · · Score: 1

      A better choice is this:
      Noise Killer

      They list several products but the only one you are likely to get in small quantities is the brush on variety. It's a bit more time consuming to apply this stuff but it's far more effective.

  16. quiet? by The+Dark+P · · Score: 1

    wasnt the G4 cube super quiet, and wasnt the iMac also super quiet, these both have no fan, but this might be because they use PPC which have a lower heat output than pentium? isnt it sad that i know all this

    1. Re:quiet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      yes, i have a G4 Cube, and yes, its silent, except for the sound of the hard drive spinning (and DVD drive if theres a disc in there). But since i have many hundreds of MG of ram, I turned off virtual memory, so there are many fewer disk accesses

    2. Re:quiet? by Retarded_One · · Score: -1

      The sad part is, you think that you are correct.

    3. Re:quiet? by anfloga · · Score: 1

      I've got an iMac (500Mhz) and I'm generally happy with it. I would also like to build my own PC, I've had both PC's and Mac's in the past. But one thing that's been holding me off is that issue of noise. I like my little apartment and I like it quiet. I live in an apartment which has (apparently) absolutely sound proof walls and windows (downtown Honolulu apartments are built like this typically) and I love it. I REFUSE to put something that sounds like a vacuum cleaner in my living space. On most days I can just open all my windows and listen to birds, I'm far enough up where even cars and bus noises are fairly minimal.

      My current machine makes no noise except for the harddrive, which shuts off after 5 minutes of non-use. I bought 1GB of memory (maxxed out my iMac) when prices were low enough so that it would rely more heavily on cache, and I pre-launch all my favorite applications to keep it from hitting the harddrive after boot up too often. All I really want now is a solid state mass storage device, like perhaps a flash harddrive so that I can get rid of the noise that's left.

      Of course, the attitude towards noise is different in the PC world. Generally, people seem to care a lot more about Mhz than noise, looks, elegance, getting things done, or even the actual performance of the machine. This has created dual purpose machines that could be used for computation, or for heating a small house in southern Argentina. And enough noise to WAKE THE GODDAMN DEAD to keep it cool!

      On the other hand I can't get my iMac to run QNX, so some kind of sacrifice must be made. What's holding me back now is the lack of a full and deep understanding on how to build the PC I want. Rule one, no noise.

      Erik

    4. Re:quiet? by Lawbeefaroni · · Score: 1

      On most days I can just open all my windows and listen to birds, I'm far enough up where even cars and bus noises are fairly minimal.

      If you took out all references of "Mac" and "PC," I never would have guessed which kind of computer you used. Shine on, crazy diamond.

      --
      "When it rains, it pours." --Morton's Salt
  17. The official Taco-Snotting FAQ, rev1.15 by The+WIPO+Troll · · Score: -1
    THE OFFICIAL TACO-SNOTTING FAQ By The WIPO Troll, $Revision: 1.15 $

    Why do I keep receiving emails from someone calling himself CmdrTaco?

    You have been receiving email from a certain Robert CmdrTaco Malda, owner of the popular technology website Slashdot. Actually, its not a very popular site in the common sense of the word; the site is rife with pimply, antisocial geeks, zit-faced nerds, communists, dirty GNU hippies, and other societal rejects and outcasts. Its also home to one of the worlds largest pædophile ring, the infamous Slashdot crew.
    Whenever Mr. Malda gets bored (and who wouldnt, running a site like Slashdot all day), he roams through the user database, penis in hand, looking for people who might enjoy engaging in homosexual activities with him. How he determines this is anyones guess; but if you have a homosexual-sounding nickname, or a nick with a letter of the English alphabet in it, youre in trouble.
    This time, he found you. Lucky you.

    Malda seems to be speaking in some sort of code. Do you know what it means?

    CmdrTacos code language is relatively easy to decipher. He prefers to speak in thinly-veiled sexual innuendo (yes, thats right: he wants your cum) to evade the watchful but relatively stupid eye of Slashdots parent corporation, VA Software. Mr. Maldas Commander is, of course, his penis: a small, withered little thing that lives in his pants and only comes out in the presence of other male geeks or at the beck and call of CmdrTacos own lubed-up right hand. His Taco bells are the shriveled testicles that droop beneath his Commander, and his Taco sauce is his thick, gooey semen. It should be more than obvious to you now what he means if he asked you to ring his Taco bells or taste his gourmet Taco sauce.
    I would guess he also asked you to engage in a practice known as Taco-snotting and, if he was in a particularly depraved mood at the time, a circle-snot.

    Good Lord. What is Taco-snotting?

    Taco-snotting is the term used by CmdrTaco to refer to the act of fellating a homosexual man (or unwilling heterosexual; CmdrTaco is rumoured to prefer rape), then blowing the semen out his nose onto the face and body of his partner or victim. Naturally, a long, bubbly stream of milky-white semen is left on CmdrTacos face, dribbling out of his nose and down his cheek: hence the term, Taco-snotting.
    A circle-snot is a Taco-snotting circle-jerk, another practice common among the Slashdot crew. CmdrTaco, CowboiKneel, and Homos get together and snot each other with their gooey, sticky cum spooging their jizz-snot all over each others faces and pasty, white bodies, until theyre covered head to toe with their own and each others man juice. This vile ritual can go on for hours. For the homosexual penetration that follows this lengthy foreplay, Roblowme is usually there to provide plenty of anal lubricant; he owns a limo service and has ample supplies of motor oil and axle grease ready to go.
    To complete this perverted orgy, fellow geeks Michael, Timothy, and Jamie will usually join in, dressed in tight leather mock-S.S. uniforms, jack boots, and leather gloves. The whole group then proceeds to snot each others spunk and whip each others pudgy asses with riding crops and chains until their pale, white geek bodies are exhausted and soaked in stinking sweat from the hours of passionate, homosexual revelry.

    Ewwwwww. So, can I stop receiving these emails?

    Hopefully.
    You most likely forgot to uncheck the Willing to Taco-snot checkbox in your account preferences. CmdrTaco has probably already got the hots for your wad, and hes probably already been lurking outside your bathroom window for weeks with a camera, some tissues and lube. Theres no escaping a geek in heat, so its probably too late for you, but you can possibly rectify this situation. To remove yourself from CmdrTacos sights, log into your Slashdot account, go to your user page, click on Messages, and uncheck the box next to Willing to Taco-snot. Maybe hell ignore you. Probably not.

    I cant stop receiving these emails from CmdrTaco!?

    If you indulge him in a Taco-snot or two, he might leave you alone. You might also want to look into mail filtering, restraining orders, or purchasing a heavy, blunt object capable of warding off rampaging homosexual geeks in heat. Trust me, when they charge... oh, the humanity. If he gets you, and you let him Taco-snot you, you will most likely end up tied up in his basement to be used as his sex slave for the rest of your life (or until he accidentally drowns you in spunk in a circle-snot).

    Have you ever been Taco-snotted?

    Unfortunately, yes. I first met CmdrTaco at an Open Source Convention. He invited me back to his room for a game of Quake and some gourmet Tacos, but when I got there, he jumped me and tied me to his bed, stripping me. After taking his Commander out of his pants, Mr. Taco made me suck the withered thing six times. He then performed his vile Taco-snotting ritual on me three times over the next two hours, bringing me to orgasm after sweaty, mind-numbing orgasm... then he snotted my own milky-white jizz back onto my face, into my mouth, then again on my exposed belly.
    CmdrTaco invited several of his Open Source (or rather, Open Sauce man sauce) buddies over to continue the twisted snotfest. Linux Torvalds raped my ass with his monolithic kernel, and Anal Cox used his network stack in a multitude of unspeakable ways on and in every orifice in my defenseless body. Michael was there in his leather Nazi uniform, caning my ass with a bamboo pole and ranting about all those Censorware freaks out to get him.
    How did you finally escape, you ask? After about 16 hours of countless homosexual atrocities perpetrated against my restrained body, they all finally went to sleep on top of me, sweat-soaked and exhausted. I was left there, covered in bubbly, translucent jizz-snot, chained to the bed, with half a dozen fat, pasty-white fags lying around and on top of me. Fortunately the spooge coating my flesh worked wonderfully as a lubricant; I was able to squirm my way out of the handcuffs and slip out the back door. Im just glad I survived the ordeal. These geeks had a lot of built-up spunk in their wads I couldve easily been drowned!

    Thats horrible. Does Taco-snotting have anything to do with CmdrTacos special taco?

    No, thats a different disgusting perversion CmdrTaco indulges himself in. CmdrTaco is usually not satisfied with merely snotting your own jizz back onto your face, he most often enjoys involving his own bodily fluids in his twisted games. WeatherTroll has spent some time trying to educate the Slashdot readership about this vile practice (emphasis added):
    You may be wondering what CmdrTacos special taco is. You will be wishing that you hadnt been wondering after you finish reading this post. To make his special taco, CmdrTaco takes a taco shell and shits on it. He then adds lettuce, takes out his tiny withered dick (otherwise known as his Commander), puts his special taco sauce on it which means he jacks off on the taco, and adds a compound to make the person who eats the taco unconscious. Of course, the compound does not make the person unconscious until the taco is fully eaten. Thus CmdrTaco force-feeds the taco to the unsuspecting victim. After all, who would knowingly eat shit and CmdrTacos jizz?
    After the victim is unconscious, he is held against his will and used for CmdrTacos nefarious homosexual purposes. This includes shoving taco shells up the victims ass, Taco-snotting, and getting Jon Katz involved. Trust me, you do not want Jon Katz anywhere near your unconscious body. Also, rumor has it CmdrTaco is looking for a new goatse.cx guy. Dont let it be you!
    Completely different, yet no less revolting. It should be clear to you now that CmdrTaco is a very, very sick individual, as are most of the Slashdot editors.

    Does Jon Katz get involved in any of this? I thought he was a pædophile, not a homosexual.

    Actually, Jon Katz is a homosexual pædophile. Hes also a coprophiliac, and, many suspect, a zoophile. Jon Katz is somewhat of a loner and doesnt involve himself in circle-snots. Mr. Katz usually engages in a game called Katz juicy-douching with his harem of little-boy slaves: a vile practice which involves administering an enema to himself of the little boys urine (forced out of them with a pair of pliers), spooging the vile muck from his ass back into the enema bag, then squirting and slathering the goo all over himself, and the little boys chained-up and naked bodies. If hes in the mood, he will sometimes skip refilling the enema bag from his distended anus and just squirt it from his ass onto his boys. Unwilling boys are further tortured with the pliers until they comply and allow Mr. Katz to juicy-douche them at will usually for the rest of their lives.
    As I already said, Mr. Katz is also a zoophile. As if the sexual escapades with the helpless little boys arent enough, Jon usually enjoys his juicy-douches best when his penis is firmly planted in a female goats anus. He is also rumoured to get off on watching his little boys eat the goats small, bean-like turds.

    Are you getting hard writing this?

    Why, yes. :) Join me in a WIPO-snot?

    No, thanks. Im already CmdrTacos boi toi.

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  18. Other way to cool your CPU by ackthpt · · Score: 3, Funny

    Though I've seen this on Slashdot before, I think this is still one of the neatest ways to cool beer and maybe adapt to your overclocked CPU.

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    1. Re:Other way to cool your CPU by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      yeah that is really cool, but i don't think it meet the quiet requirement. :)

  19. Not very revolutionary here... by Cesaro · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Not very revolutionary here... by scott1853 · · Score: 2

      Money for your ideas?

      Can ideas be licensed under the GPL?

  20. Quiet PC by Y+B+MCSE · · Score: 2, Interesting


    I am torn as to wether or not to put stock in this. Every page lists the parts to buy then offers links to buy them. It looks a little slanted on the choices there. Additionally, I would think that tweakniks (or speedfreeaks, whatever you call them) would not put so much FLASH on their page. My poor Windows box (I am at work) kept wanting to get this flash 5.0, I convinced it that we could live without.

    Other than the last complaint this seems a very noteworthy resource at least and I thank you for pointing it out.

    Cheers

    1. Re:Quiet PC by exodus2 · · Score: 1

      how did you get it to stop trying to download flash please do tell.

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    2. Re:Quiet PC by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      what's wrong with flash?

    3. Re:Quiet PC by big_hairy_mama · · Score: 1

      Maybe that's what caused the page to HARD LOCK all the browsers I tried -- Konqueror, Mozilla, AND Netscape 4.7. I can't even view the page!

  21. Will it cool my computer down? by ringbarer · · Score: 0

    Because it's making my cock HOT just thinking about it!

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  22. SLASHDOT AND CENSORSHIP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    BEWARE : Many of /. readers believe in "free speech" but slashdot "censors"!

    • Moderators
    • Lameness filters
    • SUBNET BANNING
    • BITCHSLAP!

    All of this is CENSORSHIP! PLEASE help fight it! You can start by not moderating posts (even trolls, they only troll because of the censors, Trolls are very rare out side the /. world!)

    1. Re:SLASHDOT AND CENSORSHIP! by nil_null · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      If there was censorship here I wouldn't have read your post!

    2. Re:SLASHDOT AND CENSORSHIP! by nil_null · · Score: 0

      Oh the irony.. I defend Slashdot then lose karma.. ah well.

  23. Awww... by alfredw · · Score: 4, Funny

    But I LIKE my jet engine start-up...

    I even give it a countdown as I power up...

    "All systems, report status. Cooling 1"
    "Go!"
    "Ventral Fan"
    "Go!"
    "Fluid Pumps"
    "Go!"
    .
    .
    .

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    1. Re:Awww... by the_2nd_coming · · Score: 2

      nice!

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    2. Re:Awww... by geekoid · · Score: 2

      haha thats funny.
      What you need to do is get a cone that goes from the fan, to the cpu. Make it about 25' long.

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    3. Re:Awww... by satanami69 · · Score: 1

      I'd use Jet engines for much better purposes.

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  24. The Turd Report 12/28/2001 by The+Turd+Report · · Score: -1

    I had two grilled ham and cheese sandwiches yesterday for lunch. They were edible, but not much else. I had a very small turd this morning; this is not suprising due to the fact that I did not eat much during the day. The turd did not want to come out easily, so it took a good amount of pushing to get it out. Some cow-orker waddling in and talking to me during my dump did not help the situation. I kept trying to brush him off with short, terse answers, but he kept babbling on. It was about 'Lord of the Rings'. I tell him I haven't seen it. He can't comprehend that I haven't seen the movie. He walks away, stunned. It (the turd, not the cow-orker) was about 6 inches long and very thin. It was a generic turd brown and smelled just like you think a turd would smell. It flushed with ease. I rate this turd as a 5.

    1. Re:The Turd Report 12/28/2001 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Last night we had some kind of mincemeat pie and corn for dinner. I went out for some beers with friends and ended up going to the clubs and drinking our faces off. Once we got back home, we ordered pizzas.

      This morning, hung over, I mounted the throne. I took a shit about as thick as my wrist and about 9 inches long. It actually supported its own weight when I flushed after the water had drained from the bowl, I thought I was going to have to reach in there and mash it down the drainhole. After 6 flushes it became waterlogged and eventually broke up.

      I would rate this a 9 easy.

      (I saw Lord of the Rings, it was long and slow in some parts with good special effects)

    2. Re:The Turd Report 12/28/2001 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Hello Turd,
      Props to you dude, your turd-related posts are absolutely hilarious. You and that beowulf guy are, without question, the best posters on slashdot and I wish you would both post more often. That beowulf guy, I tell you, you never know when or where he'll strike, and thanks to him/her I'm imagining beowulf clusters of the most unlikeliest things. For example, even a beowulf cluster of anus-cleaning corncobs were imagined, by me.

      Anyway, Turd, maybe if you took one of those colon-cleansing powders, then you would have more turds to report about.

    3. Re:The Turd Report 12/28/2001 by The+Turd+Report · · Score: -1

      Hmmm... imagine: A Beowulf cluster of my turds....

  25. Beware of bad advice! by uncle+isaac · · Score: 4, Informative
    Thermal compound is optional and isn?t required. If you?re going to use thermal compound, I suggest you scrape off the thermal pad on the bottom of the Volcano 7. We suggest the use of Artic Silver II which is one of the best thermal compound solutions available. This can be found for $8.50 from our friends at Heatsink Factory as well.

    A few weeks ago, I finished putting together a shiny new Athlon XP 1900+ for my son, and was very disappointed to see that heatsink grease is indeed necessary on the newer processors. The CPU and power supply fan worked just fine, the heatsink was in very close contact with the CPU, but there was no grease. What happened when I turned it on nearly made me cry: the CPU overheated within minutes of seeing the KDE desktop on this new system, and I was out $200 for a new CPU.

    I learned my lesson the hard way: don't try to skimp on thermal grease, especially on the new Athlons. They run hotter than ever now and you're risking your system's life if you don't take the proper precautions.

    -Isaac

    1. Re:Beware of bad advice! by Retarded_One · · Score: -1

      A) Thermal PASTE is optional, thermal CONDUCTORS are not. You could just as well use a patch of thermal tape, which is far less messy. And too much thermal paste is just as bad as not enough. And air pockets in the paste...yadayada.

      B)You are a bad father if you get your son a 1900, then give him frigging linux. While all of his buddies are online playing games, he will crying through freeciv and Xtris. You are a horrible man, and I wish the worst for you.

    2. Re:Beware of bad advice! by CtrlPhreak · · Score: 5, Informative

      What is meant by this is that replacing the thermal pad with thermal compund is optional. You definatly need a thermal conductor between the heatsink and the proc. That's just common sense.

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    3. Re:Beware of bad advice! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The author of the article probably wanted to say that thermal grease isn't necessary, that you can just use the usually preapplied thermal coumpound instead. But I don't agree with the author. It's true that thermal paste isn't that much better, but since you want a quiet system, you don't want to hinder heat transfer in a place where you can have it for free (that is, without additional noise). Even if this only gets the cpu temperature 2-3 degrees down, you can use a slightly slower (and thus less noisy) fan!

      Roland

    4. Re:Beware of bad advice! by pinkpineapple · · Score: 3, Interesting

      You are basically saying that the thermal threshold went undetected by the cpu and the chip fried instead of the system trapping to the shutdown code. Wow! Was it running Linux or Winblows?

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    5. Re:Beware of bad advice! by markmoss · · Score: 2

      What is meant by this is that replacing the thermal pad with thermal compund is optional. That must be what he meant, but it isn't what Tuan said. That's just common sense. It's common sense if you're an experienced technician. Kids and software geeks wouldn't necessarily know it. And that article really wasn't aimed at people that would know things like why you need a thermal compound or pad -- just give me a parts list on one page, rather than forcing me to fetch many pages from a very slow server just so Tuan could chatter on and on, and put in pictures of everything including the freakin power supply!

      By the way, properly applied paste is better than a pad -- but it takes some rather messy work, so if a pad is available and good enough...

    6. Re:Beware of bad advice! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Are you new to computers? That's a pretty dumb-assed thing to do.

    7. Re:Beware of bad advice! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well, you're an idiot for not using some sort of heat compound, but I'm sure you know that by now. However, as long as you haven't let on to your point of purchase that you've abused the chip in such a way it should be no problem at all to get a replacement. Just tell 'em it didn't work. Smear a bit of thermal grease around on the top as well so it looks good. Wipe a bit of it away with a paper towel or something. Unless your retailer is some kind of nazi they'll likely exchange it for you.

    8. Re:Beware of bad advice! by Lumpy · · Score: 2

      if you use too much heat sink grease you are causing more harm than good. you need a thin layer and that is it. it is to fill in the voids from processor and heatsink imperfections and that is it. otherwise in large quantities it has horrible thermal characteristics.

      DONT PUT ALOT ON. just coat the top completely in one thin coating.

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    9. Re:Beware of bad advice! by markmoss · · Score: 3, Informative

      It was Linux (KDE), but this is probably hardware, not OS related. AFAIK, shutdowns due to thermal thresholds being exceeded are done by the hardware alone, with no input to the OS. (This does give you a shutdown without proper preparation by the OS, requiring a file system check when started up again, but if your box waited for Windoze shutdown the CPU would fry for sure...) Or does anyone know different?

      The newest Intel CPU's will detect overheating and either shut themselves down (P3) or throttle back the clock rate (P4); it's not an OS function. Athlons have a built-in temperature sensor, but depend on motherboard circuitry to act when the temperature rises. And until quite recently (when a hobbyist magazine demonstrated Athlons melting down when the heatsink fell off), the circuitry recommended by AMD didn't react quickly enough to save a chip that wasn't thermally connected to a heatsink. (At least not where 800MHz+ systems are concerned; older, slower CPU's just didn't heat up that fast.)

    10. Re:Beware of bad advice! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      until socketA tbirds / maybe flip-chip p3's, thermal interface materials weren't "necessary"... they may be very very good to have, but you wouldn't fry the chip without. slotA systems can live without a pad/paste since the contact are is so big.

    11. Re:Beware of bad advice! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's "a lot", you fucking retard.

      Hey, you just won! Congratulations! :)

    12. Re:Beware of bad advice! by pinkpineapple · · Score: 1

      My bad. I know very little about IA. The PowerPC has an interrupt vector to execute code when overheating. The new G4 revs have a bug disabling this feature though. I would have thought (wrongly apparently) that it was a feature common to most cpus. BTW, I once forgot to put by the heatsink on my dual g4 and it was working fine for a few hours until I realized that the heat sink was sitting on my desk. Was I lucky or is the PowerPC a little less hungry for power?

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    13. Re:Beware of bad advice! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      why is it that people like you are so stupid that when you open your mouth it's obvious that your IQ is below 80 yet the sales person at the store was dunber than you and sold you a fricking computer?

      people like you shouldn't be allowed to own a computer. so smash it and let the rest of us enjoy a little less stupidity from you.

      thanks.... oh and copulation with the mentally ill isnt really a nice thing to do... although I doubt you understand what copulation is.

    14. Re:Beware of bad advice! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And 15 years from now when all his kid's friends are working at Micky D's, the Linux kid will be pulling in big bucks with a good IT job.

    15. Re:Beware of bad advice! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      Ha ha ha ha ha! Wait, you're serious.

      Nice try, fanboy.

    16. Re:Beware of bad advice! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This is an area Intel has a definite advantage on. The Pentium 4 has an on-die temperature sensor that can step down the speed if there is a failure with the cooling. One site tested this by completely removing the fan and the Pentium 4 survived and continued running. The AMD chip starting smoking immediately.

    17. Re:Beware of bad advice! by markmoss · · Score: 1

      I don't know much about the PowerPC, but IIRC it is indeed supposed to be "a little less hungry for power". Pentiums are RISC CPU's with a front-end instruction translator so they can _simulate_ a 486, 386, 286, and 8088. Naturally that takes a few more transistors and generates more heat than a pure RISC CPU...

      Anyhow, an interrupt vector for overheating isn't a lot of good unless a reasonably fast response is guaranteed by the OS. Maybe Mac and *nix OS's can handle this, but Windows isn't good at fast shutdowns. It tells the various applications to shut themselves down, then waits. Sometimes forever. If your word processor wants to ask you about saving the document before shutting down, in normal times that's a good thing, but (1) Windows may neglect to bring that dialogue box to the top where you can see and respond to it, and (2) Windows has no mechanism to force it to time-out and do a default action if you never respond, or if the CPU is going to fry in one more second and there isn't time to wait for you. And if you are running MS Outlook, it probably has to write all the e-mail you ever sent and received to disk in one gigantic file, and that certainly is going to take too long... (There are probably other reasons shutdown hangs also, like it shut down some service while other applications still need it to complete their shut down.)

      Another issue is how fast the thing is overheating. If the fan died or airflow is obstructed, but a great big metal heatsink is properly attached, it's going to take several minutes for the chip and heatsink to overheat to damaging temperatures. So there's enough time for an orderly shutdown, if the OS is capable of ensuring that it proceeds. But if the thermal grease isn't there, the CPU may be heating up all by itself, and it takes only a few seconds to fry it. Non-realtime OS's (just about all desktop and server OS's) probably aren't going to react fast enough. Realtime OS's can guarantee a response in a few milliseconds, but the best they could do would be a sudden shutdown without saving data; when you have 64MB of RAM, there's bound to be too much to save... So you might as well make the overtemp shutdown a hardware function.

      In the 1970's, there were mainframe OS's that could shut down in case of power failures within 1/120th of a second, and come back up with everything running just fine when power came on. They had core memory, which (if you were careful about the circuit design and shielding) would hold data with power out. So all the OS had to do was to reserve a block of memory to save registers, and then reload from there when turned back on and off they went.

  26. For quoting the lyrics to headhunter... by Retarded_One · · Score: -1

    One of the greatest songs ever, I will give you some BOLD TEXT.

  27. Does anyone sell complete quiet systems? by lowy · · Score: 0, Redundant
    This has been discussed on slashdot many times before. How to Build a Fast Air-Cooled Quiet PC Shhh! Constructing A Truly Quiet Gaming PC Building the Quiet PC Building Quieter Computers Commercial Water Cooling, And Quiet

    What I would like to know is where can I *buy* a complete system. I have built dozens of PCs in my life, and quite frankly have neither the time nor the inclination to build another.

    Is there a vendor who builds quiet PCs?

    1. Re:Does anyone sell complete quiet systems? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Yeah, Apple.

    2. Re:Does anyone sell complete quiet systems? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Not apple. check Gateway, I got a P4 1.6 and it's more quite than my celeron 433 was that I made myself.
      peace

    3. Re:Does anyone sell complete quiet systems? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      how much would you pay?

  28. Other applications? by rmadmin · · Score: 1

    What if your using this technology in other applications? For instance building information centers to sit in rest areas along the highway? I've got a project somewhat like this, but, alot of the things I'm trying to work out no one discusses. For instance, Monitors give off ALOT of heat, try putting that in a sealed enclosure! =P Anyways, I think all this over-clocking, water cooled, 15 fans and a monkey blowing in the case is cool and what not, but why don't we see very many hardware hackers out there playing with more than just CPU speed? Either way, I'd like to see people hacking monitors into cooler cases, or building star trek like keyboards. Then I'd be impressed.

    1. Re:Other applications? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why even use a monitor - use one of those flat pannel LCD monitor, no radiation, low power usage (40 watts max), virtually no heat generated. Plug straight into your VGA port, and best of all - you dont a big bulky case to house a large display

      The day of the CRT is numbered

  29. MS Help? by supertedusa · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Can't Microsoft solve the noise problem?

    1. Re:MS Help? by hurst · · Score: 1

      Can't Microsoft solve the noise problem?

      No, but the government can! Write your senator/congressperson and tell them of this crime against humanity.

    2. Re:MS Help? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      A noisy computer is screaming out terrorism!!!

  30. No censorship ever happens here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No censorship ever happens here. You are confusing censorship with free speech, which IS what happens here. Slashdot.org is the the private forum of the owners of Slashdot: the content here is an expression of their wishes.

    If you don't like Slashdot, you are free to start your own forum. However, you are merely a guest/visitor here, and have no "rights" at all at Slashdot since all the rights belong to Slashdot's owners. This is as it should be.

    Free speech and freedom of the press means that you are free to publish what you want. It does not mean that you are free to infringe the freedom of others by demanding that you control the content of their publications.

    Do you scream censorship when your local newspaper declines to print your crank letters? Probably not. But this is the exact same situation as when Slashdot moderates or removes your posts or filters subnets.

    Censorship is when the government gets involved. It is not censorship when someone exercises their free speech to control the content of the forums or publications they create.

  31. WTF ... by TheViffer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    After reading the article this is what I got out of it ..

    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 ... like this ...

    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?

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    1. Re:WTF ... by Brento · · Score: 4, Informative

      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?

      Read the last sentence of the article. It's very clear that they didn't build it - rather, they just culled through product listings of items that had decibel quotes. When a "review" tells me that the finished product "should" produce less than 30 decibels, they've completely wasted my time. This was nothing more than the journalistic equivalent of a high school book report.

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    2. Re:WTF ... by ThatComputerGuy · · Score: 2

      I know this wasn't the topic of the post, but in case anyone's curious..

      A KT266A does not need a cooling fan.. I've got a Gigabyte GA7VTHX + XP 1600+ (1.4ghz), overclocked to 138 bus speed (1.45ghz). Everything still runs great, and fast as hell.

      And, of course, there is no fan on the chipset.

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  32. Re:try this stuff (doesn't help) by I+am+Liquidity · · Score: 1

    I tried this in one of my machines, as well as the car audio application it is intended for. Not only does it STINK (I mean *really* bad), it doesn't do much to reduce noise. The reason it works in cars and not in computers is that it reduces noise caused by vibrations, which in some cars can be quite loud. Vibrations aren't typically the problem in computers, usually it's fan noise caused by air on the rapidly-spinning blades.

  33. Never reply to an AC by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Aw. That hurts my feelings. Why on earth wouldn't you respond to my posts?

  34. Airplane? Mine is a jet... by RageMachine · · Score: 1

    I just recently ordered parts for a AthlonXP 1900+ running @ 1.6ghz. (yep, its fast). And I ordered some really nice cooling on it. The heatsink is much larger than I thought, and the fan is enormous. Talk about noise... The brand name is 'Volcano', attached to the top of the Heatsink of the Athlon.. And it makes a sound like a jet taking off the runway. It runs at 7031rpm according to the sensors built into the Epox motherboard. I actually like the sound of the hum. I have 3 machines in my room alone, several others throughout the house. But the 2 workstations, and the house server in my room generate a loud noise that puts me to sleep at night. The 2nd workstation has only one fan, and sounds like a small commercial plane. The server has 2 large, and one for the PII processor, and it sounds like an air conditioner when I shut down the Athlon.

    The hard drivers generate very little noise, if none at all.

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    1. Re:Airplane? Mine is a jet... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I hope you don't have that fan hooked up directly to the motherboard fan header. You can run the risk of blowing the header out, unless newer boards have changed, they aren't built to pull the juice required to power a 7000rpm fan. I would suggest a molex adapter with a tach so you could still monitor the fan rpm's.
      Just my $0.02

    2. Re:Airplane? Mine is a jet... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I have the exact setup (Epox 266A / XP1900+ / Volcano 7000 RPM fan). That fan is so damned loud I couldn't stand it. I hooked a variable resistor in line with the fan power (as has been mentioned many a time on slashdot and amdmb.com and others). I tuned the rpms down to 4500 or so and the chip still stays around 39-40 C under load. The fan is much quieter at 4500 than at 7000 (no shrieking).

      Just a suggestion.

  35. AGAIN?!? by pinkpineapple · · Score: 2, Interesting

    One more article about this subject and I fall asleep. BORING!

    On the good side, it matches what I just did yesterday: I ordered parts from QuietPC.com to replace power supply and fan in my Sun Blade 100.
    What I found sucks is the shipping from UK to the US that cost about $30 or 25%. No warehouse over here makes these things more expensive than they should be. Hope they realize that the biggest market for computer stuff is in the US not in the UK.

    Second thing I did was to order a Seagate 80GB ultra quiet drive. These drives rock. A friend of mine got one to replace the HD in his Apple G4 Cube. Absolutely quiet!

    Now I need to a neighborhood where they ban leafblowers and I will be able to concentrate on my screen.

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    1. Re:AGAIN?!? by Howie · · Score: 2

      So what is the seagate part number, so we can all enjoy it? (seriously, drive manufacturers tend to make several drives of the same capacity at any given time)

      Also, I like the fact that I can order from quietpc.com without having to pay through the nose like I do from US companies (assuming they are even broadminded enough to believe the rest of the world exists). The grass is always greener...

      [the silentdrive is US-made, and has been reviewed on /. before, and most of their other parts are actually resold, not made by them - you probably can source them locallly]

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    2. Re:AGAIN?!? by pinkpineapple · · Score: 2

      Sorry, I didn't forget about the drive ref. but being at work, it was a little bit hard to find it again. I was talking about the Seagate Barracuda ATA IV, ST380021A. I've bought two since it came out. I can't tell when they seek during defragmentation!!!

      Here is a link to the review on TH's Web site:
      http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/01q3/010905 /p erformance-01.html

      Enjoy!

      PPA -- the girl next door

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    3. Re:AGAIN?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hmmm.

      I wanted to order a US$9.80 light reflector for an underwater torch. They wanted US$27 for shipment.

      thats about 300% for shipping one 90 gram item from the US to Denmark. So you think ordering *to* the US sucks?

      /Martin

  36. Does it really matter? by PepsiProgrammer · · Score: 1

    If your like me you dont care how loud your system is, as long as you have ample speakers to drown out the noise.

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    1. Re:Does it really matter? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You *could* think that way but the reality is, the lower the noisefloor in your room, the better those "ample speakers" are going to sound. If the noisefloor is unimportant, why arent you still listening to cassette tapes? The extra hiss from the tape will cut down the percieved sound from your noisy computers ;)

  37. popcorn by Troll+Guardian · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    From The Kentucky Fried Movie :

    "The popcorn you are eating has been pissed in, film at 11.

    1. Re:popcorn by Retarded_One · · Score: -1

      From The Kentucky Fried Movie

      "Nigger Nigger Nigger!"
      Daredevil Dave

  38. Why the iMac is Quiet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The iMac uses convection cooling. The processor heat heats up a surface, the air near that surface expands and rises, pulling cooler air over the processor. It just shows why computer engineers are supposed to study physics. A simple change in case design (and materials), and viola! You have a silent computer.

    There are numerous articles on how this design works floating around the net.

  39. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 2

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  40. Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    Very likely not very loud, but it also is likely to be silent.

    That's about as safe a statement as:

    if (x=0){
    } else {
    }

    (which I've actually found in code, no statements, just a compare and else.)

    1. Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      That's not a compare, that's a declaration, dickweed.

    2. Re:Huh? by tempmpi · · Score: 1

      Yeah, you are right, I made a mistake in my writting. I must have been:
      Very likely not very loud, but it also is not likely to be silent.

      --
      Jan
  41. What a crappy article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

    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. :P

    1. Re:What a crappy article by GigsVT · · Score: 1

      And an extension to that, Winchip/Cyrix C3's up to 933 Mhz now, still only like like 15 watts I think.

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  42. I like the noise. by dbCooper0 · · Score: 4, Funny
    That way - I can tell when a fan is failing well before the situation is critical - there's nothing like the noise from 3 or four boxen in close proximity, and to hear the HDs (two to four per box) as they recalibrate, seemingly from old age. Surround-Sound in a natural occurrence...

    And the fans - (one to two per processor) complement this ambience with a critical indicator to health - ie: they usually start making a hell of a racket when starting to fail - along with the power supplies' fans. Time to start checking things out before your sense of smell takes over!

    Of course, your mileage may vary.

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    /`
    1. Re:I like the noise. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Preach on brotha'

      I say ditch the who MHz/GHz speed rating and go with a dB rating. The lowder the fans the faster the cpu. :)

      --AC

    2. Re:I like the noise. by 2Bits · · Score: 2

      And without the noise, how am I supposed to notice that my NT box just went totally blue?
      As soon as I stop hearing disk trashing, I know it.

    3. Re:I like the noise. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You sure you're not using a 75GXP?

    4. Re:I like the noise. by ThatComputerGuy · · Score: 2

      Eh, my gateway's PS fan starts making a racket occasionally.. just give it a good whack on the side, it'll be ok.

      Maybe this means I should replace the fan... it is a P90 after all..

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  43. Isn't silent absolute? by DodgyGeezer · · Score: 0

    "The drives use Fluid drive bearings which make the drive run very silent."

    How can one improve on silence? Isn't silence the complete lack of sound that a quiet PC strives for? If one machine is silent, another machine can't be very silent and be better (i.e. quieter).

    1. Re:Isn't silent absolute? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      more importantly, isn't silent an adjective? things can run silently, but never can they run silent.

    2. Re:Isn't silent absolute? by DodgyGeezer · · Score: 0

      I deliberately didn't pick on that point: I assumed it was written by an American, and they don't seem to like adding "ly" when they create adverbs from adjectives. It makes them sound "real" stupid... but we'll laugh amongst ourselves about that. Side-note: my British dictionary notes that "real" is used in as an informal adverb in Scotland (!) and America.

    3. Re:Isn't silent absolute? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      eat a dick, landlubber. im american and i bet i use better grammar than you. u is real gay fag0t

  44. Re:Quiet?!? Are my ears hallucinating? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The towers are loud. Mine has a loud CPU fan, a loud (added) hard drive, a noisy video card fan, and a very noisy DVD-RAM drive - it sounds worse than one of thonse ancient floptical drives.

    The Cubes and iMacs are almost silent - by design. Steve Jobs walked into a mac lab at a school and complained about the noise from the fans. The next design of the low end macs (iMac and Cube) did not have fans.

  45. lousy article by malus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:lousy article by thefuNkpuNk · · Score: 1
      Oh, but you missed the last 2 pages! Let me re-cap:
      • any HDD over 5400RPM is loud
      • DVD drives are not quiet
      • aluminum cases dissipate more heat than standard metal cases
      • low output fans are quieter than high output

      and of cource, this wonderful chunk of wisdom:
      "Alternative: Remove all fans
      Though this is not suggested, you could remove all the fans for quietness. This can lead to overheating and is not suggested"

      I agree, yet another worthless piece of self-promotion.
  46. Slowing fans for great quietness! by Boatman · · Score: 1


    This page on QuietComputers describes a cheap way to reduce noise by slowing down PS/CPU/case fans using resistors. Works nice in addition to other sorts of quieting solutions, although I've found it sufficient by itself. It works well enough for me that my roommate came in after a power outage and cycled the power 3 times before realizing that the machine was on the whole time...

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  47. How about all the Hot Air around here? by supertedusa · · Score: 0

    I guess that wasn't PC.

  48. Interesting but light weight by ackthpt · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

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    1. Re:Interesting but light weight by ergo98 · · Score: 1

      Tis very lightweight. Even the way it glosses over things like power consumption of internal peripherals and add-in cards (i.e. some hard drives, soundcards and video boards consume lots of electricity and therefore emnate lots of heat, limiting the air cooling potential in a closed case).

    2. Re:Interesting but light weight by ackthpt · · Score: 2
      One of the problems I had with a card in case design was with a Quantum hard drive, mounted on a card in an Amiga 2000. This was my education on airflow and build up of heat in isolated areas. The drive ran so hot that it burned it's bearings. I tried moving the 3.5" Quantum to a better air path but it was too late. Sigh.

      I still use it and actually have it sitting on top of the open chassis and have to give it a quick rotation on the y-axis to free the bearings so it will spin up. (I have an old 424 meg drive from my Sun IPX which I'll put in there some day, once I figure out how to get two drives going on the interface.)

      In building my dual cpu system I'm planning to hang bits of ribbon in the cabinet to check airflow and make sure there's sufficient and not excessive in key areas. Too much airflow can be a bad thing as it'll increase dust buildup.

      --

      A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
  49. linux you retard by ArchieBunker · · Score: -1

    I don't think they ported the KDE desktop to win32 yet so its probably linux you ignorant retard.

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    1. Re:linux you retard by Retarded_One · · Score: -1

      Go easy on him, I think he is 'a person of color'. They don't know any better!

    2. Re:linux you retard by -=OmegaMan=- · · Score: 1

      Actually, "they" did. Those who live in ignorant houses shouldn't... well, shouldn't do much of anything. :D

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  50. Does my CPU run too hot? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I have an Athlon 1600XP and a Thermaltake Volcano 6.. the system runs generally at 55 C.

    I also have a case fan installed (which seemed to help 2-3 degrees)

    It's rare for my PC to be under 50 C..

    thoughts anyone?

    1. Re:Does my CPU run too hot? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      fine... overclockers would aim for 45C max but even 60C should be within the rated 95C (the diode is not at the core itself, so the core is usually hotter than reported)

  51. Mac Cubes are Very Quiet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    The Mac G4 cubes are extremely quiet. That is, until ...

    You satisfy your curiosity and finally decide to fry bacon on the top surface. The sizzling is pretty loud, louder than the crackle on that really old abused Iron Butterfly LP album you still own. Since cooking this way doesn't knock out the fat, you eventually end up replacing the G4 cube with one of those iMac-colored George Foreman grills, which is only a little less useful for running software.

    The heat from the CPU finally melts the case, and your quiet reverie is interrupted by the sound of liquid gray plastic dripping and splattering on the floor.

    "Melt different"

  52. Via C3 + Fanless power supply by hojo · · Score: 2, Informative

    I am going to replace an aged Pentium 200 MMX Linux box with a much faster Linux box in the next few months. Via's C3, running at 933 MHz, doesn't even require a fan; heatsink alone is sufficient.

    I have a silent drive sleeve for my 20 GB 5400 RPM drive, and with a fanless power supply (see the links from http://home.swipnet.se/tr/silence.html), this thing will only have moving parts in the drive and should register less noise than my breathing.

    Surprisingly, it will also perform fairly well--those C3 processors are not dogs, as you can see from the reviews linked to on Via's page (cached at http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:PMSJrxoMUV4:w ww.via.com.tw/jsp/en/products/C3/c3reviews.jsp+c3+ reviews+and+awards&hl=en).

    For Quake 3, Wolfenstein, and others, I have a GeForce3 card and an Athlon 1600+ (which also runs fairly quietly, with a Silencer fan replacing the original noisy one on my Volcano cooler), but for thoughtful tasks you can't get better than blissful silence.

    1. Re:Via C3 + Fanless power supply by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You're going to a run a VIA processor?

      WTF?!

      Most people have had enough of their fucking chipsets.

    2. Re:Via C3 + Fanless power supply by tap · · Score: 2
      But where can you buy a C3 933Mhz chip?

      I found tigerdirect has the 800Mhz chip, but nothing faster. These are from the previous version of the C3 that run at 1.6V and don't support SSE. The newest C3, called Ezra, runs at something like 1.2V and uses less power. I think they also have SSE support but I'm not sure about that. I can't find anyone selling these chips. Pricewatch doesn't list newer via chips, google searches just turn up reviews, etc.

  53. Never Too late by ackthpt · · Score: 1

    What? You've never heard of clearance or inventory reduction sales? That's where the smart start spending after Christmas!

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    1. Re:Never Too late by Jucius+Maximus · · Score: 1

      My family is in the computer reselling industry anyway so the prices we pay are still below those at the after-christmas sales. We don't bother with the retail stuff.

    2. Re:Never Too late by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      totally rad.

  54. Better Heatsink by nmos · · Score: 1

    A better choice for a heatsink would be the Alpha 8045:

    Here

    These mount VERY securely using the 4 holes that surround the cpu socket on socket A motherboards and you can pick whatever 80mm fan you think is best for your situation.

  55. Quiet fan for heater behind sofa? by Gorimek · · Score: 2

    This is a little of topic, but bear with me...

    I had to put a sofa in front of my electric heater, and now my electric bills have skyrocketed. I'd love to have a quiet fan back there that starts when the heater gets hot and blows the trapped heat heat out.

    A CPU cooler fan already has the heat triggered activation, it's small enough, and according to the article, at least this Thermaltake Volcano 7 model is designed to be quiet. But how hard is it to take a component designed to be inside a PC and plug it into a regular out let?

    1. Re:Quiet fan for heater behind sofa? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      pull the sofa away from the wall by 3 inches and you get free convection. oh and if the wife/woman/manwife complains? ignore them as their complaint is pretty stupid.

    2. Re:Quiet fan for heater behind sofa? by Thatman311 · · Score: 0

      Computer equipment is designed for 12v DC power and the outlet in your wall is likely 120v AC (in NorthAmerica). Get a convertor. They are sold at places like Radio Shack.

      Or you could do the right thing and move the sofa. What you have done is a major fire hazard.

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    3. Re:Quiet fan for heater behind sofa? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      move your damn couch then fool

    4. Re:Quiet fan for heater behind sofa? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Have you noticed that if the author admits that their comment is a little OT, then the moderators ALWAYS let it past?

    5. Re:Quiet fan for heater behind sofa? by geekoid · · Score: 2

      By a small osolating fan, heep it on its lowest setting.
      But really, it needs to not be behind a couch.

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    6. Re:Quiet fan for heater behind sofa? by eander315 · · Score: 1
      You can buy AC (as opposed to DC, which is what your computer components use) powered fans from most fan manufacturers that will plug directly into a wall outlet. I would use 2-3 large, low RPM fans (120mm or larger) to avoid noise. You also may be able to get by with a small desk fan from Target or K-Mart that would produce the same or less noise. A cheap rheostat (just put it inline on the power cord) could be used to turn the fan down to an acceptable RPM/noise level if it's too loud. The problem is going to be getting the fan(s) to turn on when the heater does. I think the easiest solution would probably entail purchasing the cheapest home thermostat you can find (either on Ebay or try Lowes, Home Depot, etc) to regulate the fan operation. There really aren't very many small temperature sensor/fan regulators out there that would be good for AC operation. You could just find a quiet enough fan solution and leave it turned on continuously as well, as it should be almost silent anyway (it won't use enough power to really matter as far as your power bill is concerned).

      The only other option I can think of would be to use a small and quiet computer power supply to drive a fan or two along with a fan regulator. It would be easiest to find an older power supply with a manual switch on it, as modern power supplies would require a hack to switch it on through the ATX connector. If you go this route, replace the old, loud power supply fan with a newer, smaller one. You may want to remove the actual power supply from its case and put it in a larger box (shoe box, wooden box, etc) that can accomidate a larger, lower RPM fan that will cool while producing little noise. The wattage rating is moot, as you'll only be using around 10 watts at the most if you're running 2-3 fans from it.

      The only AC fan I have experience with is Sunon (the AC fans are on the right-hand column).

      Hope some of this helps...

      e

  56. My two cents... by (H)elix1 · · Score: 2

    I can't speak for the KT266 chips, but the KT133A "can" run with just a heat sink on the Abit KT133A board. My chipset fan was squealing, and I ran a few weeks without while waiting for a replacement. I'm all SCSI and not overclocked on that box, however, so your mileage may vary. The chipset got hot to the touch using only a passive heat sink - probably a stability thing.

    I added a 1.4 gHz AMD CPU and had to get a better heatsink / fan combo than the chrome orb I had used on the previous duron processor. I bought a copper heatsink kit that cooled well and fit my budget. What I did not know is how load the 47dB Ytech fan really is in practice. ARGH! I started shopping for a new fan based on amps, airflow, noise, and air pressure.

    There are some good fans out there that fit the normal 60mm CPU mounts, but I'm also seeing some 60-80mm adapters used to match a larger, lower RPM fan to a cpu. Mind you, air pressure makes a difference. I'm building my own adapter now since I have a couple nice quiet 92mm fans that push/pull enough air (with ducting) to keep my CPU around 40c under load. Still tweaking the heat resistant foam ducting before I put on a coat of fiberglass. And to think we would never use our fluid mechanics outside the classroom!

    As for the thermal paste... you don't need any if you use the thermal pad they leave on the CPU. You are a dead man if you take off (or re-use) the thermal pad and run the CPU bare back. Artic Silver is nice stuff, not only because of heat transfer, but it is non-conductive. Some do conduct electricity, which is generally a bad thing if it drips or leaks.

    1. Re:My two cents... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ..or just use a real chipset, like an i845.

      That way, the thing might actually work.

    2. Re:My two cents... by (H)elix1 · · Score: 1

      ..or just use a real chipset, like an i845.

      Dude, you got a Dell.... (snicker)

    3. Re:My two cents... by geekoid · · Score: 2

      who sells those 60-80 adapters?

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    4. Re:My two cents... by (H)elix1 · · Score: 1

      Poke around... I was looking for 92-60 adapters.
      http://www.cpufx.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Scree n= CTGY&Store_Code=o&Category_Code=FA1

      http://www.hardcorecooling.com/index.htm has some too. Never ordered from them, however... Poke around on polycon? and a few others too.

      I found most folks asking ~11USD for a 60-80mm adapter, most were pretty flimsy looking. The 92mm adapters were a bit more rare and pricy - and I have the stuff to build my own.

    5. Re:My two cents... by Jesse+Shrieve · · Score: 1

      Better yet, just get an Alpha PAL8035 (i believe that's the model number). It's an 80mm by 80mm heatsink which natively takes an 80mm fan. Bigger fan, better airflow with less noise.

      Only catch is that it doesn't work on all motherboards. Your motherboard must have the proper four holes to mount it, and there needs to be enough room around the CPU.

      Works great though. I have a nice 19dba 80mm case fan as my CPU fan. Overclocked and it's still all good.

  57. Re:Quiet?!? Are my ears hallucinating? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The earlier tower G4s aren't quite as loud. I have a 450 in here and it's absolutely silent, even the hard disk doesn't make a sound. The only time I get noise from it is when I pop in a CD.

    If only my P-III 600 were as quiet, it only seems to be getting louder. Much of its noise comes from the HD, guess I need to replace it with a new one.

  58. It's no mystery by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Squirrel cage fan. And the sweaty mouse thing? Sand the surface with 60 grit sandpaper.

    I want to see more elegant solutions to these things from now on, folks.

  59. Stevie237 is a fucking bastard! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    If you agree then click here! If you don't then click here

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  60. Who the heck wants a QUIET PC? by DarklordJonnyDigital · · Score: 2, Funny
    Ah, you kids and your 'quiet' PCs. Here's a picture of my 'box', currently running at 25GHz:

    http://crazy.codetroop.com/randimg/?overclock.jpg

    I get an average framerate of a couple of thousand running Quake III.

  61. Outdated Idea. by spack · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Better yet, go with the case sold from Koolance.com It's a liquid cooled setup. This will be my next case/cooling solution. My friend got one a couple months back. I couldn't believe how quiet it was. And for about $200, this is a nice setup. He raves about the low (and stable) temperatures in his system. He also moves his system around a lot, so it's a pretty sturdy setup.

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    1. Re:Outdated Idea. by Howie · · Score: 2

      Is it quiet compared to normal jet-engined overclock systems, or compared to a room with no PC in it? I see what seems to be a bank of 6 fans on the top of that thing...

      I'm looking for silent or near to it.

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    2. Re:Outdated Idea. by Seenhere · · Score: 1

      Read the specs, http://koolance.com/specs/.

      To quote:


      A Koolance system produces discernibly less noise than a regular heat sink & case fan setup, even with its three dual ball-bearing 80mm cooling fans. Normally operating at 45% power (and even cranked to 100%), the system should certainly put to shame that dusty old 6-fan server tower


      In other words, it's quieter than a 6-fan server tower, about 58dB in "cooling mode 3".

      --Seen

      --
      "I used to be a dilettante. Then I thought I'd try something else for a while."
    3. Re:Outdated Idea. by Howie · · Score: 2

      I found that after asking :)

      58db is not really that quiet, except when compared to a 6-fan server... a real quiet PC runs around 35db or even less (one manufacturer claims as low as 16.5dBA). Sources I have found (see below) compare 55db to "standing next to a busy road". That said, there is a fair bit of variation in how measurements are taken.

      This page has much more info.

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  62. To quote the article... by SumDeusExMachina · · Score: 1
    Following those steps, you should end up with a PC that will give you high fps

    Hot damn! Imma gonna build me the first ever first post machine! Lookout cyborg_monkey, make way for sdem!

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  63. Starboard Ailertuder by ackthpt · · Score: 1
    Sounds like you're ready to fly..

    "Starboard ailertuder...

    Ailertuder?

    Where's the starboard ailertuder?"

    --P. Opus, A Wish For Wings That Work.

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  64. SnotFAQ: New version! by The+WIPO+Troll · · Score: -1
    THE OFFICIAL TACO-SNOTTING FAQ By J. Wipo Troll, Esq., $Revision: 1.16 $
    [This article attempts to document a vile, ungodly practice that runs rampant through the homosexual geek and hacker community, a practice known as Taco-snotting, or simply snotting. Taco-snotting is something that few geeks dare talk about in free or open conversation, but it is nonetheless a widely-practiced and dangerous form of homosexuality. If you or anyone you know has ever engaged in Taco-snotting, please get professional help before it is too late. ed.]

    Why do I keep receiving emails from an individual calling himself CmdrTaco?

    You have been receiving unsolicited mailings from a certain Robert CmdrTaco Malda, owner of the popular technology website slashdot.org. Actually, its not a very popular site in the common sense of the word; the site is rife with pimply, antisocial geeks and hackers, zit-faced nerds, communists, dirty GNU hippies, and other societal rejects and outcasts. Its also home to one of the worlds largest suspected pædophile rings, the infamous Slashdot crew.
    Whenever Mr. Malda gets bored (and who wouldnt, running a site like Slashdot all day), he roams through the user database, penis in hand, looking for people who might enjoy engaging in homosexual activities with him. How he determines this is anyones guess; but if you have a homosexual-sounding nickname, or a nick with a letter of the English alphabet in it, youre a potential candidate.
    This time, he found you. Lucky you.

    Mr. Malda seems to be speaking in some sort of code. Do you know what it means?

    CmdrTacos code language is relatively easy to decipher. This pervert prefers to speak in thinly-veiled sexual innuendo (yes, thats right: he wants you) to evade the watchful eye of Slashdots parent corporation, VA Software. Mr. Maldas Commander is, of course, his penis: a small, withered little thing that lives in his pants and only comes out in the presence of other male geeks or at the beck and call of Maldas own lubed-up right hand. His Taco bells are the shriveled testicles that droop beneath his Commander, and his Taco sauce is his thin, runny semen. It should be more than obvious to you now what he means if he asked you to ring his Taco bells or taste his gourmet Taco sauce.
    I would also guess CmdrTaco asked you to engage in a practice known as Taco-snotting and, if he was in a particularly depraved mood at the time, a circle-snot.

    Good Lord. And, yes, he did. What is Taco-snotting?

    Taco-snotting is the term used by Robert Malda to refer to the depraved act of fellating another man (homo- or heterosexual; CmdrTaco is rumoured to prefer raping unwilling victims), then blowing the semen out his nose and back onto the face and body of his victim. Naturally, a long, bubbly stream of milky-white semen is left on CmdrTacos face, dribbling out of his nose and down his cheek: hence the term, Taco-snotting.
    And if thats not bad enough
    A circle-snot is a Taco-snotting circle-jerk, another practice common among the Slashdot crew. CmdrTaco, CowboiKneel, and Homos get together and snot each other with their gooey, sticky cum spooging their jizz-snot all over each others faces and pasty, white bodies, until theyre covered head to toe with their own and each others man juice. This vile, ungodly ritual can go on for hours. For the homosexual penetration that follows this lengthy foreplay, Roblowme is usually there to provide plenty of anal lubricant; he owns a limousine service and has ample supplies of motor oil and axle grease ready to go.
    To complete this perverted orgy, fellow faggots Michael, Timothy, and Jamie will usually join in, dressed in tight leather mock-S.S. uniforms, jack boots, and leather gloves. The homosexual shenanigans that follow are nearly beyond description. The whole group begins to snot each others spunk and whip each others pudgy asses with riding crops and chains until their pale, white geek bodies are exhausted and soaked in stinking sweat from the hours of passionate, homosexual revelry.

    Ewwwwww. So, can I stop receiving these emails?

    Hopefully, but I wouldnt count on it.
    To begin with, you most likely forgot to uncheck the Willing to Snot checkbox in your account preferences. CmdrTaco has probably already got the hots for your wad (do you have a homosexual-sounding nick?), and hes probably already been lurking outside your bathroom window for weeks with a camera, some tissues and lube, just waiting to pounce and declare you his new bitch. Theres no escaping a geek in heat (trust me), so its probably too late for you, but you can possibly rectify this situation. To remove yourself from CmdrTacos sights, log into your Slashdot account, go to your user page, click on Messages, and uncheck the box next to Willing to Snot. Maybe hell ignore you. Probably not.

    I cant stop receiving these emails from CmdrTaco!?

    If you indulge him in a Taco-snot or two, he might leave you alone. You might also want to look into mail filtering, restraining orders, or purchasing a heavy, blunt object capable of warding off rampaging homosexual geeks in heat. Trust me, when they charge oh, the humanity. If he gets you, and you let him Taco-snot all over you, you will most likely end up tied up in his basement to be used as his sex slave for the rest of your life (or until he accidentally drowns you in spunk in a circle-snot).

    Have you ever been Taco-snotted?

    Unfortunately, yes. I first met Mr. Malda at an Open Source Convention. He invited me back to his room for a game of Quake and some gourmet Tacos, but when I got there, the perverted geek jumped me and handcuffed me to his bed, stripping me. After taking his Commander out of his pants, Mr. Taco made me suck the withered thing six times, virtually nonstop. He then performed his vile Taco-snotting ritual on me three times over the next two hours, bringing me to orgasm after orgasm after sweaty, mind-numbing orgasm then he snotted my own thick, gooey jizz back onto my face out of his nostrils! He snotted me two more times, first into my mouth, then again on my exposed belly.
    CmdrTaco invited several of his Open Source (or rather, Open Sauce man sauce) buddies over to continue their ungodly snotfest. European hacker and known überfaggot Linux Torvalds raped my ass with his monolithic kernel; his partner-in-crime Anal Cox used their network stack in a multitude of unspeakable ways on and in every orifice of my defenseless, tender, young body. Michael Sims was there in his leather Nazi uniform, caning my previously-virginal ass with a bamboo pole and ranting about all those Censorware freaks out to get him.

    That is so disgusting! How did you finally escape?

    After about 16 hours of countless unholy, homosexual atrocities perpetrated against my restrained body, they all finally went to sleep on top of me, sweat-soaked and exhausted. I was left there, completely covered in bubbly, translucent jizz-snot, chained to the bed, with half a dozen fat, pasty-white fags lying around and on top of me. Fortunately the spooge coating my flesh worked wonderfully as a lubricant I was able to squirm my way out of the handcuffs and slip out the back door (of the apartment, not their back doors). Im just glad I survived the awful ordeal. These sexually-repressed hackers had a lot of built-up spunk in their wads I couldve easily been drowned!

    Thats horrible. Does Taco-snotting have anything to do with CmdrTacos special taco?

    No, thats a different disgusting perversion CmdrTaco indulges himself in. Mr. Malda is usually not satisfied with merely snotting your own jizz back onto your face, he most often enjoys involving his own bodily fluids in his twisted games. WeatherTroll has spent some time trying to educate the Slashdot readership about this vile practice (emphasis added):
    You may be wondering what CmdrTacos special taco is. You will be wishing that you hadnt been wondering after you finish reading this post. To make his special taco, CmdrTaco takes a taco shell and shits on it. He then adds lettuce, takes out his tiny withered dick (otherwise known as his Commander), puts his special taco sauce on it which means he jacks off on the taco, and adds a compound to make the person who eats the taco unconscious. Of course, the compound does not make the person unconscious until the taco is fully eaten. Thus CmdrTaco force-feeds the taco to the unsuspecting victim. After all, who would knowingly eat shit and CmdrTacos jizz?
    After the victim is unconscious, he is held against his will and used for CmdrTacos nefarious homosexual purposes. This includes shoving taco shells up the victims ass, Taco-snotting, and getting Jon Katz involved. Trust me, you do not want Jon Katz anywhere near your unconscious body. Also, rumor has it CmdrTaco is looking for a new goatse.cx guy. Dont let it be you!
    Different ungodly perversion, yet no less revolting. It should be clear to you now that Robert CmdrTaco Malda is a very, very sick individual, as are most of the Slashdot editors.

    Does Jon Katz get involved in any of this? I thought he was a pædophile, not a homosexual.

    Actually, Jon Katz is a homosexual pædophile. Hes also a coprophiliac, and, many suspect, a zoophile.
    Mr. Katz is somewhat of a loner and doesnt involve himself in the circle-snots, but that doest mean hes any less of a freak than the rest of the Slashdot crew. Katz often engages in a game called juicy-douching with a harem of little-boy slaves that he has collected over the years: yet another vile practice which involves administering an enema to himself of the little boys urine (forced out of them with a pair of pincers), spooging the vile muck from his ass back into the enema bag, then dribbling and slathering the goo all over himself and the boys chained, naked bodies. If hes in the mood, he will sometimes skip refilling the enema bag from his distended anus and just squirt it from his ass onto the crying, terrified boys. Unwilling boys are further tortured with the pincers until they comply and allow Mr. Katz to juicy-douche them at will. A boy will usually last about two years before Mr. Katz either accidentally drowns them in diarrhea or kills them once they get too old, usually around 13 or 14.
    Not content with being a pædophilic coprophile, Mr. Katz is also quite the zoophile. As if the sexual escapades with the helpless little boys arent enough, Jon usually enjoys his juicy-douches best when his penis is firmly planted in a female goats anus. He is also rumoured to get off on watching his little boys eat the goats small, bean-like turds, and he often kills his older boys by letting his goats trample them.

    Are you getting hard writing this?

    Why, yes. :) Join me in a WIPO-snot?

    No, thanks. Im already CmdrTacos boi toi.

    ________________________________________
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    Copyright © 2001 J. Wipo Troll, Esq. Verbatim crapflooding of this document is permitted in any medium, provided this copyright notice is preserved, and next time you take a dump, you think of the WIPO Troll and all hes done to make Slashdot a better place.
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    J. Wipo Troll, Esq.
    Crapflooder Associates
    Slashdot.org

  65. Why was this modded as a troll?! by psxndc · · Score: 1
    Moderators, this isn't a troll. Put down the crack pipe and think... jeez, even the picture is worth a laugh, and it's relevant to the article. Alf, I laughed. Wish I had a mod point.

    psxndc

    --

    The emacs religion: to be saved, control excess.

  66. Cooling Recommendation for Athlon MP? by ackthpt · · Score: 2
    I'm planning to build up a dual CPU system and would like some idea on best cooling method for 2 Athlon MP CPUs. What's worked, what hasn't, motherboard or cabinet problems to watch out for.

    Thanks in advance.

    --

    A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
    1. Re:Cooling Recommendation for Athlon MP? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I am using two Volcano 6cu fans on Athlon MP 1800+ cpus, sitting on a Tyan Thunder K7. Noisy, but runs relatively cool.

      I recommend the Volcano's

    2. Re:Cooling Recommendation for Athlon MP? by M1m3R · · Score: 1

      I'm typing this from...
      Tyan Tiger MP (S2460)
      2x AMD MP 1600+ (1.4/266)
      Cooled by Zalman CNPS3100-GP "flowers"
      Infineon 512meg Registered ECC DDR (CAS2)
      2x IBM 20gig ATA 100 IDE
      LG CD-RW w/DVD read (GCC-4120B)
      ASUS V8200 (GF3 64meg)
      SB Audigy X-Gamer
      Intel eePro NIC
      random floppy
      in an In Win IW-S508 case
      ...no problems.

      Originally built the box with Volcano II's...they were kinda loud.

      Currently, the PSU and hard drives are the loudest things in the box. Will prolly replace the PSU with one of the quiet ones from QuietPC or Zalman.

      --
      m1m3r - n. - a leet speak performance artist that sometimes gets trapped in an imaginary glass box
    3. Re:Cooling Recommendation for Athlon MP? by Sivar · · Score: 1

      I find it surprising that your system is stable with those Zalman coolers. They look neat, but that model is not efficient at cooling hot CPUs--look at any heatsink guide, such as Anandtech's.

      The best heatsink for your motherboard would probably be the Thermalright SK-6. The S2460 doesn't have the 80mm mounting holes, so the very best coolers such as the overpriced Swiftech 80mm models and the Alpha PAL8035 are not compatible.
      You can get SK'6s from 1coolpc.com for $30 and from Heatsinkfactory.com for a little more (I prefer 1coolpc, check their resellerratings.com rating)
      You need to get fans separately. I use 80mm SunOn fans with an 80mm->60mm adapter, but the SK6 doesn't allow for enough airflow that my setup is any better than just using 60mm fans.

      By the way, as a general rule of thumb right now, most coolers from Zalman and Thermalright are crap. The non-circular Thermalright heatsinks are good, but there are better.

      --
      Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. --E. W. Dijkstra
    4. Re:Cooling Recommendation for Athlon MP? by M1m3R · · Score: 1

      The newer AMD chips (the ones with the retarded rating system) run a bit cooler than previous t-birds. My 1600+ 's currently read 51c and 49c (~124f is well within spec) ...so I figure I am getting enough cooling.

      As far as those heatsync reviews...many I have read mention the fact that Zalman coolers are fine for a non-OC'd system (which mine is). If I were overclocking my stuff, I'd look into a different cooling solution...but I'd also be running a different motherboard (one with the mounting holes).

      My previous system (ASUS A7M266 1.33/266) had a Globalwin CAK38 heatsync...with a (slower/quieter) replacement fan.

      My Housemate has a Zalman on his 1.33/266 now...runs well within spec too. I kinda like the lack of noise now that the 7200RPM fan is not behind my head all day.

      I'll take quiet and warm(er) over ultra cool and loud any day.

      --
      m1m3r - n. - a leet speak performance artist that sometimes gets trapped in an imaginary glass box
  67. Other ways to cool your CPU by Lunastorm · · Score: 0

    You could always move to the Fortress of Solitude or Mr. Freeze's Lair. They seem like places that will keep computers cool. As for the sound, all you need are huge speakers turned up full blast while you're playing Quake 2. Imagine, with that kind of set up, you could have a beowulf cluster of them and they would all stay cool, which would be kewl!
    Of course, the snow would eventually melt with all that heat...

    --
    You die too easily.
  68. WARNING : GOATSE.CX LINK ABOVE! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The 'Disagree' link points to that ripped out @$$!

  69. Bootlickers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Ya know what I really hate? I hate the feebs who read flames on usenet or web boards and who instantly feel like he, she, or, more likely, IT, must defend the original poster and flame the flamer back. The pathetic little loser instantly gets to feel like he, she, or, more likely, IT is part of a group, something which is sorely lacking in his, her, or morelikely ITS life. This guy, girl, or, more likely, THING, was probably beaten up a lot on the schoolyard and finally stopped getting beaten up by attaching himself, herself, or more likely, ITself, to one of the the big kids and thoroughly kissing the big kid's ass every waking moment. Kind of like those old Warner Bros. cartoons in which the yappy little dog is constantly bouncing up and down around the tough guy big dog, saying, "kin I get ya a bone, huh, Spike, huh, can I, can I can I?"

    1. Re:Bootlickers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      doo be doo be doo be dooooooo

      two words

      Paxil!

    2. Re:Bootlickers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Will you finally squish those pimples out and get back in your room? Thank you.

  70. Another sunblade user??? by Casca · · Score: 1

    Holy crap, someone else out there uses a sunblade? Aside from the abysmal video card, I love mine, how happy are you with yours?

    --
    Casca
  71. Building a silent computer is not difficult by Bostik · · Score: 1

    The site was down, owing thanks to /. effect. I could only read the leading page so bare with me.

    I had my focus on building a silent computer when I did my hardware upgrade plans. It still amazes me, that some people don't bother to check the noise levels of their gear prior to purchase. I spent some two to three weeks browsing through stuff, reviews and user reports.

    In the end, I got myself a Q-Technology (sold to new owner now, unfortunately) silent power, NoiseControl processor cooler, and a tube of Arctic Silver thermal compound. The cpu cooler did not have the best of contact surfaces, so additional help was required there.

    My case didn't have enough space to fit a Silverado MkII, so I settled for even quieter model. After putting the components together, I was happy to find out that the absolutely noisiest part of all this was the fan on the motherboard chipset. Which I promptly unplugged. Now the loudest sound I get from my computer is the sound of the hard drive spinning.

    All this required only some thought and a little effort to try to find out things in advance. Why more users never bother to do this, I can't even imagine. So much post-purchase whining could be averted, if they only did at least some research... Yes, this was far from the cheapest of solutions, but I was prepared to pay some extra for silent quality parts.

    As my mom used to say, 'poor people can't afford to buy products that are cheap and lousy in quality.'

    --
    There is no such thing as good luck. There is only misfortune and its occasional absence.
  72. to build a quiet and fast pc is easy: by dunkelfalke · · Score: 1

    * get an athlon xp 1600+ or so
    * ecs k7s5a motherboard (w. lan)
    * 256 mb ddr ram (apacer/nanya cl2 will do)
    * a GOOD psu (i suggest a CWT420A)
    * a quiet and fast hdd - Seagate Barracuda ATA IV, * ST380021A says tom's hardware
    * and say 4 of Papst 8412 NGML fans
    * an alpha pal8045 heatsink
    * arctic silver 2 or even better CoolerMaster Premium thermal grease by ShinEtsu
    * that babies: http://www.blacknoise.de/d270.jpg
    * copper spacer
    * vga card and soundcard of your choise
    * maybe a hot glue pistol (you know what i mean)
    * and at last but not least a good case

    here goes the fun: open the psu and replace the fan inside with one of papst 8412 ngml's (i know you void your warranty. for folks here living in germany or austria you can get the CWT420A with that silent cooler at blacknoise.)
    put the thermal grease on both sides of the spacer and onto the die (just a small amount)
    carefully attach pal8045 heatsink then attach another of those papst fans on it. build the whole system just as you would build a vanilla pc. then glue the other 2 fans into the case so air can circulate from the front through the cpu heatsink to the back. attach the insulator material all over inside the case and under your hdd. close all other holes of the case, leave only those for the two fans and the psu fan open. have fun

    --
    "It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
    1. Re:to build a quiet and fast pc is easy: by dunkelfalke · · Score: 1

      just in case. my own one is alike. not exactly (some "legacy hardware" - 2 extrem noisy ibm hdds) and a cheap case. if you wish i can do some photos of it

      --
      "It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
  73. There are silent laptops on the market by Sara+Chan · · Score: 2
    Twinhead makes laptops that normally run without a fan. Their computers use a proprietary heat pipe for cooling. (There is a fan, but it only goes on under extreme circumstances.) Why go to the trouble of building one?

    I got a Twinhead for that reason, and have been glad that I did.


    Buy Windows XP: give Bill Gates even more of your money.

  74. Woah by The+WIPO+Troll · · Score: -1

    Just pulled a monstrously-long hair from my nose while I was picking it. Thought you'd all like to know that, is all.

    --

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    Crapflooder Associates
    Slashdot.org

  75. THIS IS FOR ECHELON, NOT FOR YOU!!!! by Retarded_One · · Score: -1

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  76. Re:MS Help? Why MS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's not really Microsofts problem.
    they didn't make the fans that are loud.
    They can't do everything. Heck. they can't even make a stable OS.

  77. Yes by CTho9305 · · Score: 1

    What if your room mate is trying to sleep? or you get to a quiet scene in a movie? or song, for that matter?

    But I do agree with you that as long as your music is up (as it should be ;-)) noise isn't that big of an issue.

  78. What a great idea... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...if you live alone or with deaf relatives

  79. Larger fans? by Malc · · Score: 2

    Wouldn't large diameter fans be able to run at lower speeds? The chassis fans in my computer don't even use half the depth... if they were 150mm across, presumably they would shift a lot more air and could run at a fraction of the speed.

    Does anybody know of cases and PSUs that take really big fans?

    1. Re:Larger fans? by MikeBabcock · · Score: 2

      Compaq servers do ... 8" fans to be precise ... and they blow a lot of air too.

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  80. Even Better, And More Quiet! by Freneticus · · Score: 0, Troll

    Step 1- Open tower case.

    Step 2- Convince blonde that humming sound on interior of tower is an ice cream dispenser (or any similar delivery mechanism).

    Step 3- Attach blonde's face to open case through nefarious or non-nefarious means.

    Step 4- Inform blonde that ice cream dispenser (or whatever delivery mechanism you have selected for your fiendish trickery) only operates when you "give it a blow."

    Step 5- Overclock and marvel at the volumes of air motivated by your new cooling unit.

    1. Re:Even Better, And More Quiet! by geekoid · · Score: 2

      If I'm going to trick a blonde into putting her lips on something, it ain't going to be my computer!

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  81. I'm so fucking drunk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    And my liver hurts.

    That's what I get for not being able to score with chicks.

  82. Was that an article of an Advertisement? by hillbilly1980 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    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.

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    1. Re:Was that an article of an Advertisement? by Foyle+Protagonist · · Score: 1

      Actually the use of crucial ram can be very important. With an Asus A7V for example using other memory only works about 20% of the time. Crucial uses the same chips as micron, but the have a much better PCB. Also crucial has a very good refund policy. If you look at many forums (e.g. amdmb.com) there are many stories of instability/no boot problems being resolved by using crucial RAM.

    2. Re:Was that an article of an Advertisement? by hillbilly1980 · · Score: 1

      But very unimportant when writing an article on how to build a quiet system. If he spent half as much time recommending brand names, and more time givening idea's like.

      1. Take a ball of yarn, cut the peices the height of your case, string hundreds of them on the interior of the case. The Yarn will then dampen noise from the fans.

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    3. Re:Was that an article of an Advertisement? by Foyle+Protagonist · · Score: 1

      Okay, not to defend the article, I too agree that it didn't really say anything new, but... The point of most article like this is to be some sort of a buying guide for someone build a quiet system. While the memory doesn't make any noise one still needs to buy some, and I for one always recommend crucial, I have had problems with every companies RAM at some point (micron, corsair, etc.) except for crucial. In any event that's just my opinion, your results my vary

  83. Ya know... by pcgamez · · Score: 1

    How long will it be before website owners get really pissed that whenever a website gets slashdotted, it goes DOWN real quick....

  84. plexiglass door by Danny+Rathjens · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What is the reasoning behind the dual-layer-skewed plexiglass door?
    I just got a new desk which has a perfectly sized cabinet for my tower with some very noisy fans on the dual athlons.
    I planned on making vents similar to what you describe in the back but was just going to leave the wooden front door.

    1. Re:plexiglass door by J4 · · Score: 2, Informative

      In this application it serves no purpose unless the case is situated at a height where microphones might be. If it were a studio window, the angle would break up sound reflections and minimize standing waves in the room. In "proper" studio design, parallel surfaces
      are a no no.

    2. Re:plexiglass door by Lumpy · · Score: 2, Insightful

      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.)

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  85. 30db is still too loud. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Some time ago i got sick of the noise my pc was making, the loudest part now are the hard drives. That article doesnt even come close to coming up with something imaginative, dealing with the vibration, the noisy 20mm fans, the northbridge, gfx processor, replacing the cpu fan, adding passive heatsinks, ducting. My PC now runs at 38C on a 30C day, at very close to inaudiable levels.

  86. mainframes please by 8bit · · Score: 1

    Yet another reason to bring back the mainframes and ditch the PC. If every house had a server and nice graphical terminals running to your room, all the noise would be in the basement with your loud furnace and air conditioner.

    Of course, then cabling becomes a problem. Shielded cables a necesity for those rooms far from the mainframe...or go optical.

    Untill people realize the joys of mainframes, an alternate solution is to house the computer in a closet, or even in the wall (cooling vent?) Before my closet began overflowing with old and probably now-useless computer parts, I could stuff my box in there and close the door. It was a heck of a lot quieter.

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  87. Quiet CPUs by kcbrown · · Score: 4, Interesting
    While the Athlon is far and away a better deal than the P4, there's one thing the P4 has in spades over the Athlon: it does exactly the right thing when it overheats -- it steps down its speed.

    Now, most people aren't going to care about this but those who are trying to build a quiet PC are -- if you put a P4 in your system you could conceivably cool it passively and take the performance hit. I don't know how much of a performance hit you'd get by cooling passively versus actively but the video on Tom's Hardware about what happens when you remove the heatsink from various processors shows the framerate of Quake III returning to something close to the original just by reattaching the heatsink to the P4...and the fan isn't running on it at the time. Of course, that's probably because the heatsink itself is cool and will warm up significantly after being attached to the CPU for a while.

    My question is this: what heatsinks exist out there that are designed for passive cooling purposes? I'm sure the design of such heatsinks differs significantly from those designed to accomodate a fan.

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    1. Re:Quiet CPUs by Some+Dumbass... · · Score: 1

      Now, most people aren't going to care about this but those who are trying to build a quiet PC are -- if you put a P4 in your system you could conceivably cool it passively and take the performance hit.

      The problem with this idea is that, clock-for-clock, the P4 is about the slowest CPU out there. That's why all the reviews say that AMD's "model number" (read: P-rating) system is accurate in measuring relative performance (see this review for example). Clock-for-clock, a P4 is very weak compared to an Athlon. For performance, clock speed is the main thing that the P4 has going for it.

      I'm willing to bet that a slowed-down P4 would be in the same performance category as Via and Transmeta's new CPUs, which can also be run without a fan and which are doubtless cheaper than the P4! Or, perhaps you could get a P3, Duron or Celeron and run with a slow, quiet fan... or no fan at all? (I seem to recall that some of the slower Durons can run without fans, though it's not recommended.) Anyway, my point is that there are lots of CPUs out there which could run with noiseless cooling (no fan or a very quiet fan). They're not very powerful by today's standards, but they may well be faster (and cheaper!) than a slowed-down P4.

    2. Re:Quiet CPUs by slashdot_commentator · · Score: 2

      there's one thing the P4 has in spades over the Athlon: it does exactly the right thing when it overheats -- it steps down its speed.

      Its a matter of opinion. If you are properly configuring your cooling hardware, you do not need an auto shutdown/slowdown CPU. Also, AMD has a thermistor in its CPU. It beleives that stepdown/halts should be executed by the motherboard manufacturer. If you think CPU heat cutoff is an important feature, spend the extra money for a MB that supports it.

      The drawback of the P4 thermal management? It never tells you when its stepping down the CPU. Congratulations. Not just are you paying hundreds more dollars for a less efficient CPU, but now you're paying a 2Ghz P4 price for a 500Mhz P3 (which is what its equivalent processing power may be when its starts doing CPU stepdowns). I think AMD's philosophy is the correct one.

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  88. Hang up that airplane by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "Tweak3D.net has posted an article over how to build yourself a fast box that doesn't sound like an airplane hanger."

    Yes, I am sure an airplane hanger would have to be quite loud--can you imagine the size of the motors needed for an airplane hanging device?

    I suppose it would be quite loud inside an airplane hangar as well, come to think of it...

    1. Re:Hang up that airplane by andyapple · · Score: 1

      why are people always quick to point out grammar errors? is it just my 15yr old naivety, or isnt the point of the net that u dont have to have perfect spelling and grammar? as long as u kno wot he means, who cares?

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    2. Re:Hang up that airplane by geekoid · · Score: 2

      Because there are many times where a simple misspelling can change an entire meaning. especially on the net where there is no visual cues.

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    3. Re:Hang up that airplane by geekoid · · Score: 2

      I have yet to hear an airplane hangar make any noise. Now, the aircraft IN the hanger can get quite loud.

      If you can nitpic, I can nitpic.

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    4. Re:Hang up that airplane by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Um, no- "the point of the net" is not so you can spew illiterate garbage. Where did you get that idea?

      Brains (and good grammar) are *always* in fashion, by the way.

      Andy

    5. Re:Hang up that airplane by Mandoric · · Score: 1

      The question being whether one can also nitpick... ;P

  89. Re:Shipping from UK by Christopher+Whitt · · Score: 2

    Next time you could check out Quiet PC Canada instead of the buying from the UK website? That might save you a bit on the shipping...

    Their order page says that they gladly process US orders by telephone even though the online ordering system is not set up for US customers.

    I don't know if it would actually be cheaper in the end, but it's probably worth checking out.

    Christopher

  90. This is all fine and dandy... but what about by jutus · · Score: 2

    cheap pc's?

    Let's say you want a cheap, SMALL, silent pc. No need for an athlon.

    Any web articles on that?

    1. Re:This is all fine and dandy... but what about by M1m3R · · Score: 1

      I just built (mom's christmas toy) a box with one of these ASUS barebone systems. It's pretty small, very quiet and expandable (provided you are ok with no AGP slot). The CD-ROM drive (when spinning) is the loudest thing in the box.

      Not sure about how well Linux supports the SIS 630ET chipset tho.

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  91. Just built one. by Eric+Seppanen · · Score: 2
    I just finished building a quiet machine. I definitely recommend Directron as a nice place to buy all of the parts needed to build a machine that won't sound like a 747.

    Some parts that went into my machine:

    1. Seagate Barracuda IV hard drive. Noise level below what people can hear. 20, 40, 60, 80 GB models available.
    2. Fong Kai FK-603 case. Includes duct to help hot CPU air out the rear case fan. This case got a nice review from Ars Technica. Good quality, good looking case.
    3. Antec Jet-cool CPU cooler. Good cooling capability but still low noise.
    4. Enermax power supply. Extremely low noise, with one intake and one exhaust fan to help remove CPU heat, and available in any power level you could want.
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  92. Passive cooling in a small area by Toraz+Chryx · · Score: 1

    I've been looking at building a box to sit with the AV hardware, the basic aim is to stuff the fastest gear possible (that runs cool) into a case and then cool it either passively, or with fan(s) that aren't audible over the harddisk..

    rough spec:

    Tualatin P3 (they run cool enough to not NEED a fan, and a 1.2Ghz Tualatin is many things.. slow isn't on of them)
    Seagate BarracudaIV ATA, right on the heels of the fastest IDE disks available, and almost completely silent..

    suggestions on quiet/fast video hardware?, I thought about a Geforce 3 or Radeon 8500 with a BIG passive heatsink on it.. but I'm wary of that since my GF2MX with passive cooling gets very toasty...

    hmm, perhaps I'm gonna have to suffer some low-flow 80mm fans or something, just to give some semblance of cooling......

    1. Re:Passive cooling in a small area by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The Radeon would be the better bet as they are virtually silent anyway. When the first Radeons came out many of the hardware sites claimed that (in their opinion) the fan was only there for cosmetic purposes as the chip doesn't get warm at all even under load, I dont know if this is still the case with the 8500s.

  93. "Airplane hanger"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What is an "airplane hanger"? How loud is it?

    Oh, wait a minute... you meant "airplane hangar".

    My hangar is pretty quiet right now. As a matter of fact, *nobody* runs an airplane in a hangar. We all push them out first, then we start them up.

    So, I'd say a hangar is usually quiet.

    Dumb simile.

    Andy

  94. My box... by pointwood · · Score: 2

    First - I think that was a lousy article :(
    The more fans there are, the more noise are you going to get - they could have choosen the MSI board which doesn't have any fan and they could have choosen a different video card that doesn't require a fan either, but they didn't.

    My current system is an old celeron 300@450 (yes I'm overclocking currently, but it runs without problems) which I intend to upgrade to an Athlon XP soon.

    My current case (which I'll be keeping, but upgrading with new and better noise dampening material - more about that later) is this one:
    http://www.noisecontrol.de/info/big/inf.htm
    (in German)

    If you look at the "innen_vorne.jpg" picture, you can see it has 2 "air holes" (what do you call them? - English isn't my primary language) on the back, besides the one for the PSU.
    I'm thinking about putting a 80mm Papst fan (I'll use a similar one for the Alpha PAL 8045, those fans are *really* low noise) at the lowest hole, to suck air into the case. Together with that I'll add a "NoiseControl Magic WhisperBox" to the back of my case:
    http://asp.webconsult.dk/vareinfo.asp?VareID=112
    (in Danish)

    Bigger pictures can be found in this (also in Danish, but the illustrations should mostly be pretty easy to understand) pdf manual:
    http://asp.webconsult.dk/Box-Manual.pdf

    That box should eliminate the noise (which is currently not much) from the fans on the back, which is also why I would rather not put a fan on the front of the case.

    AFAIK, the best heatsink right now, is the Alpha PAL 8045, which I mentioned earlier too.

    As said earlier, I'll upgrade my case with some new noise dampening material - you can read a bit about it here:
    http://www.chillblast.co.uk/
    (look under "Accessories/Magic Fleece noise killer")

    The last thing I should mention is that the harddisk is usually also an noise issue which is why I use a "NoiseControl Hard Drive cage" - it effectively removes vibrations. I have also tried the Silentdrive , but in my experience, it doesn't make the harddisk become les noisy and since it encloses the harddrive completely, it's not good for high performance harddisks (they are simply getting to hot).

    Actually, the only thing I can practically hear from my current box, is the harddisk (an older IBM Deskstar, 7200RPM). That will be changed with a new Seagate Barracuda IV, which should be much more quiet.

    The main issue I have here is how little cooling is enough to cool an Athlon XP.

    Another issue is the video card - that is actually a big problem, but I think I'll buy a Gainward Geforce3 Ti200 card which should be able to run only with passive cooling (if you buy a good heatsink). It should have pretty good 2D image quality also.

  95. Tweak3d.net by ziggles · · Score: 1

    Wow..another tweak3d article that explains the painfully obvious and manages to drag it out to 3 or 4 pages, which of course have banner ads on them.

    i dunno.. maybe it's not that obvious to someone.

  96. Just buy one.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I have build numerous computers over the years, and I never got them as quiet as some of the manufacturers out there.

    Apple is whisper quiet. If you want a PC, consider (gasp) Compaq. I don't know about the consumer stuff, but the business PCs aere relatively quiet. They don't employ CPU fans, just big ass heat sinks, and the case is properly designed to route the air over the heat sinks. I think that is something hard to find when you build your own.

    I have owned two. An older PII and a newer PIII 1G dual Xeon workstation. In both cases the hard drives were the main noise makers. The Xeon wks is a little louder than the PII, probably because of the big ass power supply.

    In both cases however it has to be absolutely quiet to be able to tell the PCs are on when the hard drives are not spinning.

    I also love the sideway hard drive bays on the workstation, but that is a different story. No more nicked knuckles trying to remove and install drives.

  97. fanless by hummer357 · · Score: 1

    The only way to build a really "silent" pc is to get or make one without any fans in it.

    How come Apple can make computers that run completely fanless? G4 cube? iMac? I mean, PC builders should get their heads together and make a completely silent pc!

    You could make an almost silent one by using the Via C3 processor(the ones running at 933Mhz of course ;-), or maybe even one of the more recent Celeron babies, but then you still have the noise generated by the PSU.

    Someone: Please make me a fanless Pwer Supply!!! (or if they already exist: where can I find one??)

    1. Re:fanless by Toraz+Chryx · · Score: 1

      ah, but you forget, the PowerPC chips Apple hardware uses generates significantly less heat than any decently performing x86 part..

      the only chip to get close to the G4e on a heat/performance basis is the 0.13 micron Tualatin core (IMHO, that's basically conjecture on my part)

  98. iMac has a fan. by decaying · · Score: 1

    Why is myth continuing to circulate?

    The iMacs has a fan in them.... between the monitor and the actual 'cage' that holds the computer?

    Has Apple's marketing got everyone brainwashed? Or is it that no one here has used/owned an iMac, let alone taken it apart?

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    1. Re:iMac has a fan. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm on an iMac right now and if you can see a fan in there you're smoking something better than I am.

      T

    2. Re:iMac has a fan. by colatek · · Score: 1

      I am sitting in front 600mhz iMac and there is no fan. zilch, nada.

    3. Re:iMac has a fan. by SlamMan · · Score: 1

      Current iMacs, and most of the revisions before this one are fanless. First, and I think second rev had fans, but I think that went away when they changed from the powerbook style ram to pc100 stuff.

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  99. It works if used right by msobkow · · Score: 2
    It doesn't cut by 9dB, but it does help quite a bit. The key is to stick it on areas subject to vibration. I have the large side panels on the case damped, the hard drive cages, the power supply brackets, the fan brackets, etc. Anything that vibrates.

    An article online had suggested using a blower fan on the case, which I also followed up with. Works great. I have 3 machines kitted with the Dayton 2C647 AC blowers and standard bathroom fan speed controls. The three machines are quieter in total than one used to be.

    The info on the blowers is at Overclockers Forum. You can also search for info on the "Hoot Chute".

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  100. Re:iMac hasn't a fan. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Original (bondi blue) iMac had a fan, but after FireWire came along, iMac was re-engineered to enable convection cooling
    and is now one of the quietest computers on the market.

  101. You need to read between the lines by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 2

    You need to read between the lines.

    What Hemos & Taco are really saying is that they did not get a quiet computer for Christmas, again.

    ./ fans, you missed your chance!

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    "Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
  102. Try the Pentium III Tualatin by wpmegee · · Score: 1
    Intel's new .13 micron P3, the Tualatin core, doesn't need active cooling, only a heatsink. PC Power & Cooling sells the Sleekline 1260, a mine 1U sized pc, and it merely has a heatsink with two tiny case fans drawing air through it (inside view).

    Unfortunately, you need a mobo with the i815 b step chipset, which has a very limited life span. Of course, your cooling mileage may vary.

    1. Re:Try the Pentium III Tualatin by Toraz+Chryx · · Score: 1

      The Tualatin will also work with Serverworks chipsets (Supermicro do a few boards based on them) AND Powerleap sell a convertor that allows Tualatins to run on slot 1 mainboards

  103. Re:Not very revolutionary here..Noise_cancellation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Here's one.
    Why not use noise-cancellation means to keep noise level down? Like those headphones that use out of phase sound to diminish the outside sound.

  104. Good one! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Moderate this up!

  105. Showcase theaters rule! by Graymalkin · · Score: 2

    Strangely people talk about passive cooling in tower cases. Passive cooling would work much much better in a desktop chassis than in a tower. Reason being you could take a nice sized heat sink and stick it on your processor with plenty of headroom over it. With enough intake slits near the processor convetion would work pretty well for the most part. Heat sinks are perpendicular to the plane of the processor but making the plane of the processor perpendicular to the direction air is going to naturally flow ends up fucking up your cooling. More than a dozen models of Macs were designed this way and coupled with the fact the 603 disappated about 5 watts at the most made for a pretty quiet design overall, my PowerBook uses the same concept but instead of a heat sink it conducts heat into my lap. If you took a decent desktop chassis with a Tualatin P3, Celeron, or Via C3 you could probably get away with entirely passive cooling on the processor itself. As for the other noisy parts thats somebody else's problem.

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  106. Passive CPU heat sinks, yes yes! (Re:Quiet CPUs) by claud9999 · · Score: 1

    The auto-stepdown capability of the P4 is the first thing I've heard about Intel's latest CPUs to interest me away from AMD's, anyone have anecdotal experience of using a P4 for extended periods with passive heat dissipation? I'd *love* to set the CPU fan up on a switch (better yet, controlled via h/w so when I want to game, I run an app to turn the CPU fan on.)

    I would not be suprised if computers came with variable-speed fans for CPU heat dissipation based on demand for lower power consumption.

  107. Re:iMac hasn't a fan. by PythonOrRuby · · Score: 1

    The change wasn't associated with the introduction of FireWire to the iMac, if memory serves, but rather to the revision(codenamed "Kihei") that brought the slot-loading drive to the iMac.

    I have both a Lime(266MHz) iMac, and an Indigo(500MHz) iMac in front of me, and the cases are noticeably different.

  108. Re:Quiet?!? Are my ears hallucinating? by colatek · · Score: 1

    Yes, the chips do run quieter. The mac's use a risc cpu. Which runs much cooler than a cisc (intel, amd ) chip. From what I gather it has to do with instructions sets and clock cycles of the cpu. While it might take multiple cycles to execute an instruction on a cisc chip. instructions for a risc take only one cycle. therefore they run cooler.

  109. Athlon 750 and air by ImaLamer · · Score: 2

    I've got an Athlon Classic [slot-a] 750 MHZ cpu.

    I simply bought a triple fan that hooks nicely on the CPU. No heatsink, no grease.

    Sometimes the case does get hot. But the simplest solution in my mind was to put my air purifier fan behind my case.

    Now when I put my hand on the floppy drive I don't feel the warm air. Basically it's a small fan with a filter on the bottom. Now it doesn't have the filter and blows air right onto the power supply and the back of the case.

    This is a homebuilt PC so you know not everything fits the way it should. I've got extra holes on the back of the case which could be used for extra serial ports or the like. I kinda' opened them and now the air flows right in.

    The important note is that I've got the front 'case fan' blowing air OUT of the case. This way none of the hot air is built up into the case with no place to go.

    Try my idea and blow some smoke into the air stream. With my current setup you can see some of the smoke coming out of the front of the case.

    1. Re:Athlon 750 and air by MikeBabcock · · Score: 2

      a) Hot air rises ... venting should be at the top (front or back)
      b) Power supplies create heat -- they should vent, not be intakes.
      c) Air flow, aside from the above, is just air flow -- get lots of it.

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      - Michael T. Babcock (Yes, I blog)
  110. OT: Re:Quiet?!? Are my ears hallucinating? by Sivar · · Score: 1

    No.
    Well, yes, the G4 does indeed run cooler, but you are incorrect as to why it runs cooler.

    1) RISC/CISC has absolutely nothing to temperature. Alpha processors, for example, run hotter than most PC processors.

    2) Temperature has nothing to do with instruction sets. It has alot to do with clock speed, but that is measurable only when comparing 2 chips of the exact same model.

    3) RISC chips, which in a way don't technically exist, may execute most instructions in one clock cycle, but that is because the instructions are far simpler. It takes multiple instructions to do the work of an average single instruction on a CISC chip.

    4) RISC = "Reduces Instruction Set Chip". The Motorola PowerPC 601 chip actually had /more/ instructions than the Pentium. RISC has become a marketing term and no longer really signifies any real-world difference between chips. That said, it is now rarely used as a marketing term because the RISC vs CISC debate has been dead since about mid-1999 or so. Neither method as a substantial advantage over the other. One executes more complete instructions per cycle but needs to execute more instructions to do the same thing.

    What really effects processor speed:
    *Transistors switching state. Every time a transistor switches its state, it takes power and generates heat. Better designed processors try to reduce unneccessary switching. This is one method AMD used to reduce heat between the Athlon T-bird and AthlonXP.

    *Voltage. Even at the same clock speed, increasing voltage linearly increases the power dissipation of the chip.

    *Transistor size. .18 Micron transistors produce more heat than .25 micron transistors. Smaller transistors also allow lower voltage for stable operation.

    *Number of transistors. Obviously, more transistors switching means more heat.

    *Several other factors.

    The G4 processor runs cooler because it is a simpler, more efficient design with less transistors. Additionally, Intel compatible chips have to have quite a bit of extra logic (=more transistors) to deal with the ancient, aging x86 architecture quickly. Actually, modern processors like the Athlon break down instructions into smaller operations so could technically be called "RISC core" processors. Hmm.

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  111. 3 things that help reduce noise: by Sivar · · Score: 1

    1) Use external SCSI hard drives, put them in a closet or something. SCSI cables can be quite long, so this is actually pretty easy. You can even have very loud drives like the old Quantum Atlas 10K1 and not notice

    2) The quietest hard drives are Seagate Barracuda ATA IV's. Check the noise comparisons on storagereview.com.

    3) If you pump heat directly from heat sources out of the case, you can drastically reduce the number of fans. The only 2 items in a PC (other than the power supply) that typically need cooling are the CPU and video card. The vid card doesn't need noisy cooling, so you can deal with the CPU only. You can use a case like the Fong Kai FK-603 which funnels the output from the CPU fan directly out of the case, rather than lettign the hot air pass by the motherboard. You then need a grand total of 2 or three fans. 1 for the power supply, one for the CPU, and possible a small fan for the video card. Problem solved.

    By the way, Dynamat doesn't do a thing for you unless your noise problems are caused by vibration rather than by spinning fans, hard disk platters, etc. It's also very expensive.

    Hope this helps.

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    Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. --E. W. Dijkstra
  112. P4 silent cooling solutions? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    There have been a lot of discussion about quiet Athlon solutions, but what about the few of us who actually have p4:s? I invested a lot of money in a quiet system, but the P4 fan is driving me crazy! It's rated at 36 dB, and it is really very, very noisy. Does anyone know of a really quiet socket 478 p-IV cooling solution?

  113. Air conditioning - move the heat and the noise by Mandelbrute · · Score: 2

    If the air temperature is 40 celcius then you need as much airflow as you can get (I have the box open and a 40 cm pedestal fan pointing at the drives) I have to put up with the noise. An air conditioner would drop the overall air temperature, remove the need for a couple of case fans and move a lot of the noise outside.

  114. Don't bother reading the article by shimmin · · Score: 1
    It doesn't contain anything in the way of "how to" or general principles at all. Basically, it's just a collection of components the author thinks run quieter than most.

    What would be useful are some charts of decibel levels for various products so we could compare them, not just see what the author thought was quiet.

  115. Drop da speed... by SurrealKnife · · Score: 1

    my favourite trick is to drop the speed of a processor. I first did this for a customer in India, where the temp was over 50 Celcius ambient, but in testing I discovered that in ambient temperatures below 25 Celcius, it would run fine with only passive cooling (Athlon 800 clocked at 600). Still works today - if my fans ever fail, I simply downclock and carry on regardless. Downlclocking allows you to run stably at lower core voltages, too, increasing the life of the chip still further.

  116. Re:for the money ??? money ??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    COURTESY WWW.M-W.COM
    Main Entry:(2) hobby
    Function: noun
    [...]
    : a pursuit outside one's regular occupation engaged in especially for relaxation

    Personalized PC builders do it as a hobby, joe.

  117. dell heatsinks? by Hadlock · · Score: 1

    i had a pent celeron 400, and my friend who works at a commecrcial computer cupplier got an old pII 400 w/a dell heatsink, it was blue annodixed metal, measuring 7x2x4" about....with no fan. heatsink size isn't a real problem in a big case...bigger the heatsink, the bigger the surface area, the less need for a fan. i'd be more than happy to have an overpriced fannless heatsink on both my processor & power supply.

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