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Quiet Desk (Not Desktop) PC
Anonymous Coward writes "Rusty took a wholly different approach to PC noise: he built his XP1900+ machine right into the desk! While it may not make the PC industry scramble to define a new *desk* (not desktop) form factor, Rusty's inventive techniques will surely have computer hardware enthusiasts poring over his fine work."
Kinda reminds me of this, eh?
Hilary Rosen's speech was about her love of money and her desire to roll around naked in a pile of money.
www.wworld.com/users/seancrago/CaseUnAssembledRigh t.jpgp g
/.ed, you won't be missing much if you get a couple of pics. Only really novel thing explained in the text of the article was where he explained that the CPU was a down-volted xp1900, w/passive cooling.
www.wworld.com/users/seancrago/CaseOpen1.j
Those mirrors won't last long, but they're the most impressive of the pics in the article. Even if the site stays
except my PC is just enclosed in the desk cabinet with a door. This helps a bit but the thing that made the biggest difference of all the things I tried was to use a bigger fan. A 90mm cpu fan can run much slower at a equal flow rate to a 60mm cpu fan and that reduces the noise the most.
Use your brain, if /. hosts the mirror locally, then the number of people access their site isn't going to go up. The total bandwidth might go up a little bit due to more images, but in the end it would have a minimal effect on them. It's not going to magically draw more users from the void to hit /.
What?
I'm newly in the Real World, so I needed my own desk. My computer was also way too loud, and I'm cheap, so I made a box to put the computer in and turned it into a desk.
:( Plus, I have to open up the side of the case to turn the fan on and off. Anyone know a good way to get the fan to turn on and off when the computer's on and off? At least it still works well as a desk.
I made a wooden box that's made of particle board and painted fire engine red (cheap paint). It has a hinge and a door in the front. Inside is carpet padding and a computer. I took some more red particle board and made another stand of the same height. I bought a door from Home Depot, stained it, and laid it across the two.
It works great, except that the computer gets too hot. I thought I had planned for that appropriately, but apparently you need more air flow than I could create. So I cut out an interior floor of the box and installed a rectangular house fan. That works great, except it's now too loud again
So, don't do like me. Make your case plenty wide/tall/deep, with lots of air flow and baffles everywhere.
Quiet Desk (Not Desktop) PC
Posted by michael on 12:58 PM October 16th, 2002
You know, it's not night *everywhere* on the planet...
Actually no, all the cables have enough extra length looped into them at the end to allow the drawer to open fully. Trust me, it's my computer. (in fact i'm typing on it right now) But thank god that silentpcreview isn't my site, and that my machine isn't the server! If anybody has any specific questions I can try to answer them, since at the moment you can't actually see the site.
I think you're talking about the 2 little boxes on the desktop. They are the "media engines" for the Sony SDM-N50 monitors. They house all the VGA and power connections. In my poorly done photo they do sorta look like 1 bigger box.
For example, the Noval 760, a Z-80 system with monitor, tape drive, and printer, built into a desk. The peripherals are in a hinged portion so they can be kept out of the way when you're not computing. The Noval was reviewed in Byte magazine in 1977.
Thats right. On my computer it says it was posted at 8:58 on Oct15. This isnt /.s fault, its yours.
http://rkinder1.tripod.com/silentpc/
Go grab this file.
Unzip, preserving folder names, and enjoy.
Jouster