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Building a Silent, Air-Cooled System
A reader:"Tired of those whining fans? Want some piece and quiet when working on your PC? Water cooling can be too expensive and too complicated to install, why not just stick to air cooling? This article describes how you can remove PC noise without turning the inside of your PC case into a small oven. Follow the road to silence while keeping an eye on the system temperature."
If only they could silence my roommate's snoring...
Reducing temperature and reducing sound... Well then how will I cook eggs or drowned out the Britney Spears from the next office over.
You Don't. Just disable all the fans and, hey, who cares about a little extra heat?
Then things will run really quiet... that is, until the smoke detectors start going off...
In Soviet Russia, the COMPUTER silently air cools YOU.
Yeah, beatles are very silent, especially since John and George are dead
Seems to me that they've built a silent website too.
"Plans are for fools! Oglethorpe, the plutonian (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)
Yeah. Every freakin' day. Wake up. Kick groupie chicks out of bed. Go to Slashdot. Post something. Sign autographs. Click Reload. Select tonight's groupie chicks from my inbound mail. Recompile kernel. Refuse offer of cocaine snort from nearby pair of rackmounted systems. Touch, finger, grep, mount, fsck, reboot. No, I don't have time for your sister. Reload, and post again.
Man, I tell ya, it's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n' roll.
A reader:"Tired of those whining fans? Want some piece and quiet when working on your PC?
Well *I* for one never get tired of my fans, even when they whine or ask repeatedly for autographs.
I do however forbid them to come near my linux box, so I usually have some peace and quiet there.
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I sure am!
-- Michael Jackson
No no no, see... If you have air blowing over a hot object (a heatsink), the heat gets taken away from that object and then it rides those cirrents of air out into the cosmos, never to appear again! But if you radiate the heat away passively through a giant block of aluminum, the room gets really hot. Don't you know anything about thermodynamics?
"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his." - Patton
X terminals are so 90s!
If only I could adapt the 'caterpillar' drive described in The Hunt For Red October to cool my system... totally silent, but requires a nuclear reactor for power and separate cooling for the electromagnets... (details stolen from Knick)
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Micropolis hard drives were always very quiet too--they'd go clunk and stop making even the faintest whirring noises...
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
I prefer to attach playing cards to my fans so that the sound is modified from a whir to a vroom. Very Much like my BMX when I was a boy.
Invest in a baggie of small rubber grommets and use them on every screw
This part can't be stressed enough! Although, you may want to get some of the larger rubber grommets depending on your needs...
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
Try sleeping in that datacenter I don't mind the pcs at work either, but the one near my bed with the pulsing high pitched moans and whirls gets annoying
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Sometimes, when I'm not careful, I end up spraying fluid inside my case too. It doesn't seem to cool it very well though. It just sizzles and gives off this horrible salty smell...
I'm deaf you insensitive clod! Seriously though, real men's computers should never go below 50dB.
I don't get it.
Too bad we can't moderate (-1, Dumbass).
"The key is to carefully evaluate each component you are planning on including. Go to the manufacturers websites and look for a decibel rating."
Then add 20dB to the manufacturer's claim to get a rough idea of the true noise level.
And look for the small print "20dB... at 10 metres, from the side, while idle and/or underclocked. 1dB = 10.24bel. Actual formatted noise may vary."
I took this guy's advice and put my PC in a sandbox. It was silent until my cat got her tail stuck in the fan while taking a dump.