[Discuss] noise

[Chris Mueller]

I've found that a majority of the noise can be canceled out by  a 
quality case. I recently purchased an Antec p180 and love it. For once 
my 10k scsi drive is silent and I can sleep with it on. My next case may 
be the antec p150...they are simply amazing.

-Chris

Daniel M. German wrote:
>  Nav> I've been running a small lab (~40 workstations) of GX280s at UVic for
>  Nav> approx. two years, and I really like the machines now. As previously
>  Nav> mentioned, they are SUPER quiet. I walk into a room of over 20
>  Nav> computers and it seems quieter than my single AMD XP 1900+ machine at
>  Nav> home.
>
> Dell is very good at this. This is my silence ranking, for the
> computers I work with:
>
> * Apple Mini. This machine is _silent_
>
> * Typical laptop with good harddrive and no internal fan (I can hear
>    the disk in the laptop, perhaps it is proximity)
>
> * Silence yourself computer (Zallman parts, no Video Card fans, silent
>   drives, expensive route, but well worth it)
>
> * Dell desktops (really good value for the money in terms of silence ratings)
>
> * Powermac G5 (its fan noise is annoying, and it is really noisy when it "takes off")
>
> and way at the bottom...
>
> * Any beige box... I can't work with one of them... I feels like I am
>   in a construction site...
>
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