[Discuss] noise

[Daniel M. German]

 Chris Mueller twisted the bytes to say:

 Chris> I've found that a majority of the noise can be canceled out by  a 
 Chris> quality case. I recently purchased an Antec p180 and love it. For once 

I think you are partially misled. It is not only the case. It is a
quiet power supply. No matter how error-prone the case is if the
power supply is noisy the. 

But  I agree, some cases are more quiet than others. Zalman makes one
that is a dream:

http://www.quietpc.ca/tnn.html

My Powermac G5 annoys me. I wish I could silence it :(

 Chris> my 10k scsi drive is silent and I can sleep with it on. My next case may 

In my experience the source of noise in a typical PC is:

* CPU fan
* Power supply fans
* Video card fans
* Hard disks (the newer ones are way quieter than the old ones).


 Chris> be the antec p150...they are simply amazing.

 Chris> -Chris


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