Re: Advice on building a silent PC needed.

["Shaf Ali" <shaf@xxxxxxxx>]

I've gone down both routes for silencing a convential pc you'll probably
fork out a lot more than you expect....

Typically I ended up researching and buying silent fans,raping PSU's, low
db hard disks and applying chipset cooling, vibration dampening.. This all
costs money : Results were good but no way completely silent more like a
wisper when you out your head next to the PC....

To be completely silent - solid state is the only way (mini-itx mobo with
passive cooling for the cpu : No fans, compact flash instead of a hard
disk)... but you'll be limited by power so I have it runnning my HA
operations under linux.

Shaf


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> Can anyone advise on the best method of building a silent (or at
> least very quiet PC). I was looking at using an ITX motherboard,
> etc. but by the time I've finished buying all the bits it works out
> at quite an expense. I have a number of old PC's lying around which
> I could rape some of the bits I would need but I'm sure someone out
> there has built something.
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> TIA
> Darren
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