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Melamine Ceiling Tiles and the Quiet PC

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the stretching-the-dollar dept.

Delta Screemer writes "What good are ceiling tiles when it comes to making a computer quieter? Well, Max Page of FrostyTech has found a use for 'Melamine Foam Sound Absorbing Ceiling Tiles' as a cheap way of lowering the noise a computer produces. By lining the insides of a computer with these $3 24"x24" industrial office panels he was able to quiet a computer by several dBA. That may not sound like much (pun intended), but when you compare the price of these melamine foam panel to products like Dynamat the price difference is substantial."

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  1. Re:Quiet PC? by tomstdenis · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So you bought an entire second PC because you can't get used to white noise?

    Faggot.

    I have a 12" desk fan pointing into my open AMD based computer running 24/7 and I sleep just fine at night. The trick is to sleep with your head at the OTHER END of the room. It isn't too loud and the white noise actually helps me sleep by masking out other house bound night noises.

    Tom

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  2. Re:Quiet PC? by jcast · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Which is what makes us techies so much better than y'all.

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