RE: Quietish PC

["Ho Yin" <yahoogroups@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mal,

Regarding silencing your HD.

What I did was get some elastic and then suspend my HD in a 5.25" bay.
Therefore it does not touch the case at all - it significantly quietened
th=
e
rumbling noise, plus improves air flow - a nice cheap and easy solution to
reduce some noise.

Ho yin=20

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Mal Lansell
Sent: 19 April 2006 08:21
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Quietish PC

You should also consider the SilenX fans (also available from KustomPCs)
- only 9db compared to the 17db for the Nexus, and with an airflow of
18cf/m, which is close to the Nexus' 20cf/m.

I bought a bunch last week for my HTPC, and all I can hear now is the hard
drive rumbling when I access it - silencing that is next ;-)

Mal


David Irwin (Home) wrote:

>Andy,
>You mentioned quite chassis fans - these are the best 80mm fans I
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>From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf=20
>Of Andrew Tedford
>Sent: 18 April 2006 11:56
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Quietish PC
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>(Thanks Paul, that=92s great.)
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>So now I=92m off to look around for a HTPC with XPME and I=92ll get one
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>Just another thought though, I suppose I can=92t house the PC
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>Like a really long lead or something ?! (duh!)
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>Andy
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>From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf=20
>Of Paul Gale
>Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 11:19 AM
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Quietish PC
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>I've been running two water cooled top end PC's for 1-2 years now
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>upgraded components in this time). Water cooling is not bad but does=20
>require a fair bit of case space for the more efficient=20
>radiators/pumps. I also found there is more maintenance involved=20
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>which is potentially a disaster waiting to happen! I have had a
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>of accidents while changing water - but these were my fault! ;)
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>I've now moved to Pentium D's and due to the huge amount of heat,=20
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Aero Flower:
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>http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Zalman_121.html
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>It's significantly better performing than the old water cooler (an=20
>older Asetek waterchill) and it runs as quietly!
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>If you have the space, I'd really recommend the Aero Flower - I'm=20
>probably going to buy another couple for other machines :)
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>Paul.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf=20
>Of Andrew Tedford
>Sent: 18 April 2006 10:48
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Quietish PC
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>Hi all,
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>Strange, I was going to post similar - asking for a quiet PC.
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>Just one thing - I see that you can get water cooled PC's - does
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>Thanks
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>Andy
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>My 2 year old Shuttle XPC seems to have gone wrong - had a very
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is
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