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Building the Ultimate Silent PC
TRH writes "You had a post not long ago about building a totally quiet PC, I came across this article on Rabid Hardware where the author had another approach for quieting down a PC, through ripping out fans, motors and replacing heat sinks with sound deadener material. Funny read, especially from a site that's known in the modding world for being a little off-the-wall to begin with." Finally, the silent PC you crave, and for a change, this one won't cost you a fortune.
Need a silent pc its easy just maintain the power off..
I hate it when there's no noise. Without that, and my lights burnt out, I can never tell if the wonky parts are still going!
So all you need is to build a Beowulf cluster of Vic-20s.
Quiet PCs are easy. There's lots that you can do to make your PC quieter.
Instructions on how to make a quieter mother-in-law? I'd really like to see that.
Anyone else have a crazy Korean mother-in-law? You know what I mean!
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I have found that my PC runs silently when I play my illegally gotten mp3's at ear crunching loud volumes. Preferrably "System of a Down" or "Tool" although I have been known to play the soundtrack from "Fiddler on a Roof" or "The Fantasticks" also.
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is the one at the store that I can't afford. All I hear is a little voice that says, "buy me, buy me". It might just be in my head.
No kidding. People that complain about their computer's noise are the same ones that stand in front of microwave ovens yelling "HURRY!"
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Block all vents and unplug the fans. That should make it extremely quiet, don't you think?
Hmmmm. Links dead. Assuming that's his server, too, I think he ripped out more than just some trivial fans and motors...
I'll bet he couldn't even hear his computer as he was most likely hearing impaired from listening to a screeching Scottish Catholic woman bitch at him all day and night.
I will trade you 2 dozen for one good, old fashoned, normal-flow toilet (banned in the US for several years).
Is this post for real?
...wicca... part of your domain - I am sure you have more issues than just the noise that his machine was making.
First of all - with that
Second - I dont blame him for leaving if you're constantly harping on him about things like the flipping key-stroke noise that kept you from getting all the rest you needed for your oh-so-difficult receptionist job.
Third - your not used to a lot of noise because your from scotland? but now all of a sudden your OK with it all because you have a computer job? I assume you have a much larger paycheck now - so it would seem that you didnt really care about the noise, you jsut cared about the money that you weren't getting. Now that you have a job making a larger wage you can suddenly forget about the fact that you're "from a rural area in Scotland, [and] not used at all to roaring cars and noise and humming computers"
Now you miss him because you could really use his computer?
JEEEBBUUSS!!
Give me that guys email address - I would like to congradulate him for leaving you!!
Then you start recording, you can't get a good take because its 90 degrees, this is california and its sweltering inside cuz you had to turn off the AC, you're sweating and out of breath ... on the 25th take you remember those albums you played on in highschool and the freezing studio you recorded in ... god what you would give ... on the 30th take you squeak out something you can live with, you can fix the nasty bits in auto-tune right? :)
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What you must realize, though, is that Dynamat is not designed to reduce noise. It is designed, like so many other car audio products, to separate fools from their money.
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you need an hour of silence!
Who are you, John Cage?
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It was a Compaq.
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I know a couple who are Irish. He's prodestant, she's catholic. Whenever they argue, she blows up his car.
Anything like that?
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dynamat does in fact work... it is designed to reduce vibrations that cause resonance noise. I.E. those idiots that drivearound with so much BASS cranking that it sounds like their car is rattling apart.. Dynamat get's rid of that noise by deadining the panel it is on.
only serious and real car stero installs use dynamat... and they still do to this day. it's a staple in any car audio system that is designed to sound awesome.. want yours to sound better? add dynamat and it will reduce panel vibration and increase SPL. (Show me one SPL winner that doesnt have Dynamat in his car.)
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It is clear that this can only be good for open source.
The real ultimate silent PC.
Erik
This, coming from slashdot... I wonder how many people who are replying to the original post have ever even had a girlfriend.. All women are like this, if you find one who's not, she's probably a lesbian.
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All that soundproofing stuff is too complicated. On my computer I just reversed the polarity on the clock generator so it runs at negative 1.7 GHz. Now my cpu runs cold instead of hot and I don't need any pesky cooling fans.
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