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Build a Quiet Gaming System

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the whirrrrrrrrrr dept.

ThinSkin writes "Armed with a newly discovered soundproofing foam, Loyd Case from ExtremeTech set out to build a quiet gaming rig that hits the sweet spot in both performance and silence. After choosing the right components and insulating the PC case, Loyd's silent PC weighed in at a shade under $2500, scored 5206 3DMarks, and is hardly audible from more than a meter away."

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  1. you're kidding, right? by Ritz_Just_Ritz · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Unless you're working on a laptop, how many people work such that their EAR is within 1M of their PC?

    1. Re:you're kidding, right? by Trejkaz · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Typical mouse and keyboard cords are about 1.8m in length.

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  2. Expensive by Nightspirit · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You can create a realtivly silent gaming PC for under a grand. I built an amd 3400+, 1gig ram, ATI 9800 pro video, and a silent case for not that much money over a year ago (def under a grand), and using MS' game machine analyzer it rates in the top 3% of gaming PCs.

    Why do all these "game machine" and "media center" how-to guides build such expensive computers? The day where the average gamer or home computer user spends $2000-2500 on a computer is a decade ago.

  3. Re:What about Liquid Cooling? by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't know why more people don't use it.

    Because many less-than-advanced PC builders are still skittish about introducing liquid fluid of the wet persuasion into their PC case.

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  4. Everyone. by Inoshiro · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Every single workstation in the comp sci lab at the University has the monitor on top of the actual computer case. A 1m radius sphere around it would intersect with anyone's head.

    When I sit at a desktop at home, my head is between 70 and 90cm from 2 computer towers, both of which are on my desk next to my monitor.

    Do you know that a metre is 100cm, or 3 and 1/3rd feet?

    I don't know of any people who have their PC cases far away from their monitors, and I don't know of any people who sit more than 1 metre from their monitor (it makes it hard to read the contents!).

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  5. Re:Did all of you flunk 3rd grade math? by damsa · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I know how to do 3rd grade math. In the 4th grade I learned the concept of rounding.