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- Khlept0, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24Can you make silent co-workers as well?
- rompom7, on 10/12/2007, -7/+27A case full of mineral oil does the trick just fine. Just don't put stuff like your PSU or hard drives in it. Your mobo, CPU (no fan, just heatsink), gfx card (fan removed) and other parts that don't have any physical movement would work just fine.
- markr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19I think it's unfair to mark this down! Tom's hardware did this - pretty interesting really
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/01/09/strip_out_the_fans/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+21Snoop is that you?
- pmcall221, on 10/12/2007, -13/+28my computer is dead silent... when its turned off
- Saintlink, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Don't forget to check out http://silentpcreview.com/ for more great tips on keeping your machine whisper quiet.
- Khlept0, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. Just a moment. Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. Just a moment. Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. Just a moment. Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. Just a moment. Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. Just a moment. Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. Just a moment. Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. Just a moment. Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. Just a moment. Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. Just a moment. Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. Just a moment.
- Fenster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Between the white noise and Nina in Corporate Payroll, I can't even hear myself think let alone my PC fans.
- kwelling12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9The Mac Mini is almost totally silent.
- Khlept0, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Who's the odd one: Her for posting negative comments, or you for digging through all her comments just because you saw a female name?
- forgetfulca, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Difficult. Much easier to make coworkers silent, though the addition of particles in the air. Dennis Miller calls them 'bullets".
The ensuing period in court and ultimately in jail will not be silent, but at least you'll have those blissful few moments after firing.
Just to be on topic: where is the 'next' page link? This page just looks like a traffic generating portal to me. I didn't find any content, just outward links. - dj_sea2005, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7VERY useful. im a music producer so sound is a very big issue when using a computer. im using this site!
Digg fo' shizzle. - stmiller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yes Macs are very quiet; the very reason I bought one. I needed a silent good computer. I don't know why apple doesn't market them as being silent. Of course with the new high-end Nvidia cards in the powermac G5s, the video card fan breaks that Mac silence.
- gamekid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Took almost a minute to load. I was about to say that digg knows how to make dead-silent websites too.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10Without the hum of my computer, I can't sleep!
- Ignathius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6i called a friend the other day. he asked why i was vaccuming while on the phone. i had to tell him it was my PC :P
- seandfeeney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5its nice being deaf sometimes... i don't have to spend money in making a silent PC because my ears do that for me.
- dj_sea2005, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6If i say yes will you buy the stuff needed to make my computer quieter?
- jermm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I have many macs, some are loud (the hd in a G3 iMac wines, a tiBook with the fan on, super loud). The G5 is pretty quiet, unless the fans spin up (rarely). The CD iMac is quieter then the external HD
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6The newest Macs are pretty silent. But, yes, some of the older G4 towers could get pretty loud. One was even nicknamed the "Windtunnel G4" because of its incredibly annoying fans.
- mckone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5SilentPCreview.com is definitely a more complete resource than the linked page. In addition to a whole bunch of relatively recent reviews, they have a very active forum for Silent PC enthusiasts. As a matter of fact, the antec P180, which is recommended on the linked page was designed and built largely from efforts by folks at SilentPCreview.com.
- gbeirne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Use the mineral oil method.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Put PC in closet.
Run long USB, video, and audio cables.
Close closet door.
Pretty darn quiet ... - cbdgr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4My computer purrs link a kitten with its 9 - 80mm fans
- KriLL3.2™, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I got 3x 120mm fans at low rev, and 2 80mm fans at mid rev, my computer is very quiet, but I'm so used to the sound now that I cant turn it off while I sleep, becuse I get worried if the sound isn't there. =P
- jboi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The art is not silent, the art is silent and cheap
Buying a 150$ silent psu for 400$ PC is silly.
A silent PSU for 40$ that would be news worthy - sumrandommember, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7I have a friend who does this and it works ladies and gentlemen! His cpu runs on average 5C cooler than mine. (Yes, we have the same chip).
- orangetiki, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I say just turn up the music more. At home and at work
- plingboot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3No one mentioned Mini-itx yet? There's a good range of VIA Mini-ITX passively cooled mobos around ( http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=2#epia ), although some of the higher spec'd stuff does have a fan the lower spec'd are fine for file servers or even HTPC and are completely silent. I myself run a silent aging EPIA 5000 : http://www.plingboot.com/2006/02/05/lets-build-a-small-low-power-silent-linux-machine/
- Killgore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3SilentPC Review is the best site for this kind of stuff.
Looks like i was beaten to the punch. - dashifen, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9Meh. I just turn my music up. Then you can't hear the fan!
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The funny part about quieting down any system is how much louder all the other parts seem to be once you've quieted down the fans. When I first switched to water cooling and got rid of a bunch of fans, I thought my hard drive was failing.. in reality, I just couldn't hear it before. :)
- ToeCheese, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Easy steps to a silent PC:
- Load Windows ME
- Attempt to use for a few days.
- Make space in the closet - NOFXY, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@khlept0
Great reference to Office Space!
and to stay on topic..my brothers computer next door is LOUD! i cant hear my own computer in my room because of my brothers fans drown it out. So i guess mine is quiet enough :)
Edit: you too luke
*starts singing* dang it feels good to be a gangsta! - cakefart, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Heh, I assume that you're talking *after* the explosion, right? :-)
- MadChicken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Here's a decibel value comparison chart for some. You might have a better one somewhere.
http://www.lhh.org/noise/decibel.htm
So let's just agree for the sake of (no) arguments that in this context, silent(tm) is somewhere between "normal breathing" and "whispering at 5 feet". - blackjack75, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Why build a quiet PC when you can buy PCs that are already quiet. I for one had a Sony GRX-316 MP laptop. That 3000$ beast lasted about 10 months before the motherboard went to sleep for ever. And now, it's DEAD silent. You just can't beat it.
- B0jangles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I just play a mp3 with headphones on. It does the job niceley
- iMactel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I never hear my 20" iMac duo core. I've not heard the fan once.
- luke--, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Well see, they wrote all this bank software, and, uh, to save space, they used two digits instead of four. So, like, 98 instead of 1998? Uh, so I go through these thousands of lines of code and, uh... it doesn't really matter. I uh, I don't like my job, and, uh, I don't think I'm gonna go anymore.
- lightcycler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Why not simply get a Mac mini, for a fraction of the price of all this Zalman and Antec kit? Hell, buy 2 of them - it will still cost less than a PC with the components recommended in this article, plus they'll be smaller and quieter.
- kakapu4u, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I've been looking for parts to build this too, besides the parts listed in the linked article. Here's what I've found:
Fanless Video -
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814125174 (ATI Radeon 800XL)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814125175 (GeForce 6600GT)
Fanless Motherboard -
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813157087 (ASRock - cheaper)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131540 (ASUS - more features)
Power supplies and case fans seem to have a wide selection of quiet parts, and I haven't picked any of those yet... nor a cpu heat sink. The goal is quiet, cheap and pretty good performance, not whupass blazing fast, bleeding edge tech.
If you have links to alternative products, especially reviews including the products linked above, please post them. - Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2But then you have to listen to the fridge, which is much louder than the PC in the first place.
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Oh, and the PSU is a ThermalTake unit (I'm not a big fan or anything, I just happened to end up with a lot of Tt stuff) with a variable speed fan, that I keep on it's lowest setting, and I mounted with dampeners.
- hppyfngy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2watercool it baby. makes a little gurgling sound like a tiny fountain in your zen office space. aaaahhhhhh
http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/product/Liquid/liquid_index.asp - T-Maaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think 'dead silent' is a misnomer here - I have yet to see (hear) a machine that is truly silent on either the Mac or Win side.
I run a G4 Cube at home (the one with no fans, that uses air convection to keep it cooled) - sure, it is really, _really_ quiet... but I can still hear the hard drive clunk and churn when I use Photoshop, and a CD spinning up is noticeably loud (in comparison) when you don't have the constant hum of the fans and power supply drowning it out.
I will have to agree about the Mac machines being much more quiet, in general -- putting my dual G5 tower next to one of my Dell machines is like night and day - the Dell constantly whirs so loud that it is distracting - kind of like those old vacuum cleaners you used to hum along with as a kid, to try and match pitch with. :-) - cg0def, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Why not? .... because it's a mac mini ... you can't compare a mid to highend pc to the cheapest mac there is. Oh and while MacOS might be a great OS the fact is that there are hardly any games for MacOS and at the end of the day it seems like games sell computers really well. Also with custom made PCs it's not about how much bang for the buck you get. It's much like tricked out import cars. After you do all the work on them they end up costing you quite a bit but its all about the way they make you feel. A Mac never gives you that feeling ...
As far as quite PCs go this guide is deffinitely not the best one out there. I don't really like Zalman coolers that much ( cost too much ). You can get a water cooling Swiftech kit for relativelly cheap and those things are awsome for the price. That is if you like liquid running arround your case. I like air better ( less maintenance ) so I use a Swiftech heatsink and I works great and with a Tt or Zalman 9cm fan is virtually silent ( plus Tt fans get about 50cfm at 28db ). Add a PSU with a 14cm low speed fan and maybe 1 - 2 more lowspeed 9cm fans to move the air arround your case and you are set with a pc that runs at about 25-28db. ( well maybe a little bit more ) And the best thing is that you can ever overclock a setup like this. Oh yeah you would need a video card with a silent solution ( best case scenario ). Also a lot of people load their cases up with hdds and when you have 3 and up hdds in the case the noise level also goes up quite some. Also you shouldn't underestimate a good quality case. The cheap ones vibrate too much and some even create a slight echo.
Anyway, there are a lot of computer parts to chose from today and you can save yourself quite a bit of money if you do your research first. Also some things might need a little bit of imagination ... but thats all the fun of building ... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2But how will i know it is on???
i remember when they first made silent floppy drives.. drove me nuts could never tell if it was still coppiing to floppy
and the white noise from the computer hum helps me sleep.. - cg0def, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have 2 words for you
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