A Practical Approach To Shushing Your PC

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A Practical Approach To Shushing Your PC

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 25, 2003 @11:03PM from the slaughter-a-carpet-as-a-threat dept.

An anonymous reader points to this wacky but effective-looking home-brewed answer to computer noise, consisting of a wooden case stuffed with ventilation shafts which follow a number of 180-degree turns, and implementing several ideas found at 12ghosts.de (in German). From the description on the site: "By traveling through the shafts, the noise is weakened gradually on its way through the sections. On the front the case has a door for accessing drives, the cables come out of a kind of "mouse hole" at the rear panel. A fan inside pulls an air flow through the wooden box."

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Wow by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-25 23:22 · Score: 1, Funny

Did you see the picture?
http://www.carsten-buschmann.de/noise-pr otection/p icture1.htm

I have to say thats the most pimptastic computer I've ever seen.
Best way to have a silent PC... by Trurl's+Machine · 2003-10-25 23:26 · Score: 5, Funny

...is running Virtual PC on an iBook ;-)
Re:Meh by jaakkeli · 2003-10-25 23:29 · Score: 2, Funny

I put my PC in the fridge and have extra long cables!
Hmm. The noise from my PC has often made me want to throw it out the window. Now it occures to me that, since I live in Finland, this might actually be a *great* idea!
No need! by FrostedWheat · 2003-10-25 23:32 · Score: 4, Funny

I've found that this always does the trick!
And "Ear Modding" is relatively easy... by No+Such+Agency · 2003-10-25 23:45 · Score: 3, Funny

Go to enough loud rock concerts and voila! your Ear Mod is complete, and you can't hear that fan noise (or anything below 80 dB) anymore!

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Computer Noise? What? by StoneCrusher · 2003-10-25 23:45 · Score: 3, Funny

Computer noise solved in 3 easy steps.
1. Get the latest tunes from your faviourite record company/piracy source.
2. Turn the volume up.
3. Press play.
I've never understood this by jez9999 · 2003-10-26 01:27 · Score: 2, Funny

I've never understood people's obsession with getting their PCs quieter. My PC has maybe 6/7 fans in it all going at the same time, and it honestly doesn't bother me. If it was silent, other noise would piss me off. For example, human voices actually piss me off a lot more. I find it very hard to concentrate in multi-user environments like libraries. And these people are saying that a small whirring is unbearable?? They need to adapt to life.

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How to totally silence your PC by HughJampton · 2003-10-26 05:53 · Score: 2, Funny

I found this one out just yesterday Step 1: Press the "Off" button until the screen goes blank.

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Is it just me? by Taladan · 2003-10-27 04:58 · Score: 2, Funny

Maybe it's just me. I dig the bigger, better, faster, quieter debate, but what are you trying to sneak up on with your PC that you have to completely silence it? Taladan

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