Good point. You're right that it does make a slight noise (I have eden fanless CPU so don't have/hear any fans), which I can hear if my head is less than 50cm from it. Similar to an external transformer for some electronic devices. When mounted inside the case though you have to try very hard to hear it.
It is only when you have no moving parts - no hard drive, no fans - that you can have near zero noise computer.
A few articles back there is talk about a silent PC - slowing fans down with resistors, etc. If you want a true "silent" pc, mini-itx is the only way. Get one of these, add a flash card and you have a *zero* noise computer.
Over about 6 months I spent about 100 UK pounds making my PC quiet - started with Zalman flower coolers, Seagate Barracudas suspended with cord, undervolted papst fans running at slower speeds (later replaced them with SilenX - the quietest I could find?)
In the end I switched and bought an iMac G5.
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Good point. You're right that it does make a slight noise (I have eden fanless CPU so don't have/hear any fans), which I can hear if my head is less than 50cm from it. Similar to an external transformer for some electronic devices. When mounted inside the case though you have to try very hard to hear it.
It is only when you have no moving parts - no hard drive, no fans - that you can have near zero noise computer.
A few articles back there is talk about a silent PC - slowing fans down with resistors, etc. If you want a true "silent" pc, mini-itx is the only way. Get one of these, add a flash card and you have a *zero* noise computer.
http://www.purplecarrot.co.uk/dvd-pc/ The only problem is they are not as powerful as your average desktop pc. Until now?
Sounds like apple. The elitist "we know better what users need in a GUI".
Though they probably do.
Over about 6 months I spent about 100 UK pounds making my PC quiet - started with Zalman flower coolers, Seagate Barracudas suspended with cord, undervolted papst fans running at slower speeds (later replaced them with SilenX - the quietest I could find?) In the end I switched and bought an iMac G5.
Reminded me of Sun's old slogan "We're the dot in . com" - They dropped that pretty quickly when the crash came.