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Building a Dead Silent PC

Posted by michael on from the i-still-have-the-scar dept.

Jouster writes "The folks over at HardCoreWare.net have finally lost it. They built a PC that's well over twenty times quieter than their comparison PC (40 dB versus 65). And it's no sluggard, either: P4 2.80 GHz, 7200 RPM hard drive and--get this!--an overclocked to the max GeForce4 Ti 4200! The only fan in the entire system is in the PSU."

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  1. Dead silent PC my ass by ottffssent · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Slashdot has been having some issues with headlines recently. Maybe, just maybe I don't know what I'm talking about, but to me dead silent means as silent as a dead person. What this means is the computer has no moving parts (like a dead person). No CDROM. No PSU fan. No hard drive, no vidcard fan, no CPU fan, no case fan, no chipset fan. It netboots and loads the OS into RAM and accesses files over .

    Dead people don't move! Dead silent PCs shouldn't either.

    --
    High-speed Road Trip (18.000KPH)
  2. Re:20 times quieter? by odaiwai · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Evolution of language, in this context, usually means "I r 2 thik 2 figger stuff out properly, so I'll pretend to be a champeen of da noo engrish."

    dave

  3. Re:20 times quieter? by Jouster · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Congratulations, I'm sure your penis has been lengthened by this incredible postscript; I can't wait to meet your superior progeny some day when handing them change--the correct amount, of course.

    I would be working at a computer company making exorbitant sums of money and buying myself a brand new Camaro convertible, but, alas, I went through public school, so I guess I have to quit tomorrow and go apply for a job at WalMart.

    If you get a chance, please remind your children to remember to tip well when my public school-educated boss (one of the best sysadmins I know) brings by their pizza.

    Jouster
    (Story Author)