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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. Re:20 times quieter? by Yakman · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I'm not an audio guy but from what a friend told me once dB isn't linear. So going from 96 to 98dB is actually twice as loud, or something along those lines.

    I'm sure someone smarter will explain it :)