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A Practical Approach To Shushing Your PC

Posted by timothy on 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."

4 of 201 comments (clear)

  1. Best way to have a silent PC... by Trurl's+Machine · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...is running Virtual PC on an iBook ;-)

  2. No need! by FrostedWheat · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've found that this always does the trick!

  3. And "Ear Modding" is relatively easy... by No+Such+Agency · · 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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    Freedom: "I won't!"
  4. Computer Noise? What? by StoneCrusher · · 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.