Re: Quietish PC

[Mal Lansell <mal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the suggestion. I was actually thinking along the lines of
the Zalman heatpipe cooler
(http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_3831.html)
- not only will it
keep the drive temperature down, but it has rubber mounts to cut down
the transmitted noise too (supposedly by 90% or so).

Trouble is, my case is a ThermalTake Mozart, which has the DVD drive in
the middle of the 3 available 5.25" bays - I'm not sure if the Zalman
will fit cleanly into a single slot...

Mal


Ho Yin wrote:

>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 the
>rumbling noise, plus improves air flow - a nice cheap and easy solution
to
>reduce some noise.
>
>Ho yin
>
>-----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:
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>>Andy,
>>You mentioned quite chassis fans - these are the best 80mm fans I
have
>>seen...
>>
>>http://tinyurl.com/cockj
>>(apologies for the unfortunate link)
>>
>>Dave
>>
>>(no affiliation, just happy customer)
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
>>Of Andrew Tedford
>>Sent: 18 April 2006 11:56
>>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Quietish PC
>>
>>(Thanks Paul, that?s great.)
>>
>>
>>
>>So now I?m off to look around for a HTPC with XPME and I?ll get one
of
>>the Aero Flowers.  Guess I?ll have to look for quiet chassis fan?s
too.
>>
>>
>>
>>Just another thought though, I suppose I can?t house the PC
upstairs
>>and somehow distribute the video feed to the plasma screen
downstairs?
>>Like a really long lead or something ?! (duh!)
>>
>>
>>
>>Andy
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>>(why do all my posts have double line spacing in them? It?s not me
>>doing
>>it!)
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
>>Of Paul Gale
>>Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 11:19 AM
>>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Quietish PC
>>
>>
>>
>>I've been running two water cooled top end PC's for 1-2 years now
(and
>>upgraded components in this time). Water cooling is not bad but
does
>>require a fair bit of case space for the more efficient
>>radiators/pumps. I also found there is more maintenance involved
>>(changing/topping up water) and over time, the pipes can get
brittle -
>>which is potentially a disaster waiting to happen! I have had a
couple
>>of accidents while changing water - but these were my fault! ;)
>>
>>I've now moved to Pentium D's and due to the huge amount of heat,
>>decided to move one of the machines away from water cooling to a
Zalman
>>
>>
>Aero Flower:
>
>
>>http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Zalman_121.html
>>
>>It's significantly better performing than the old water cooler (an
>>older Asetek waterchill) and it runs as quietly!
>>
>>If you have the space, I'd really recommend the Aero Flower - I'm
>>probably going to buy another couple for other machines :)
>>
>>Paul.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
>>Of Andrew Tedford
>>Sent: 18 April 2006 10:48
>>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Quietish PC
>>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>
>>
>>Strange, I was going to post similar - asking for a quiet PC.
>>
>>
>>
>>Just one thing - I see that you can get water cooled PC's - does
anyone
>>know if that's worth a go?
>>
>>
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>>Andy
>>
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
>>Of Dean Barrett
>>Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 10:23 AM
>>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>>Subject: [ukha_d] Quietish PC
>>
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>>My 2 year old Shuttle XPC seems to have gone wrong - had a very
quick
>>power cut then kept restarting with errors. I guessed it was the
>>HardDrive - put a new 300gig in installed XP and still having
problems
>>so guess it the MB thats shot.
>>
>>I need to replace it with a similar machine, which is near to quiet
>>(shuttle is not totally quiet) as its my HTPC running MainLobby in
my
>>
>>
>Lounge.
>
>
>>Has anyone got suggestions where to find a suitable machine
preferably
>>around the £500 mark. I dont think it has to have massive
processing
>>power as it mainly file serves, though it does play DVD's to the
>>Plasma, and via the SVideo output to the tv distribution system. I
>>guess i cant rob any parts from the old machine as i guess
everything is
>>
>>
>out of date.
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>>Any advise appreciated.
>>
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>>Dean.
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