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"Silent PC's"

How many people here have silent PC's?

Well, I've just started my own last night by ordering this beauty.

[URL]http://www.antec-inc.com/pro_details_enclosure.php?ProdID=15138#[/URL]

It's got lots of great reviews so hopefully it wont be a dissapointment.

I also ordered a quiet CPU fan and an extra quiet 120 mm case fan for extra coolness.

Anyway, after I've got it all installed it should be around 20 - 25 dBA's, however I was wondering how my WD 160 Gig and Radeon 9600 would effect the noise level. Would I have to mod them in some way to make them as quiet as the rest?

Damarus wrote:
> How many people here have silent PC's?
>
> Well, I've just started my own last night by ordering this beauty.
>
> [URL]http://www.antec-inc.com/pro_details_enclosure.php?ProdID=15138#[/URL]
>
> It's got lots of great reviews so hopefully it wont be a
> dissapointment.
>

Mine arrived today - it definately gets my thumbs up... I would recommend filling the extra 120mm fan fitting though...

I welded a 120mm fan to my heatsink, so now I get high performance cooling without the associated noise. Result.

my whole pc bar 1 fan is silent all the time, i find if you get a few temprature controlled fans on non-essential parts of the computer they run slower and don't make so much noise, i'm buggered though because my cpu needs a good fan and i'm scared it would melt if i but a quieter one on.

Silence in a case is something YOU engineer, in my opinion.

Ive used that case many times and i don't think it is really all that quiete, You would be better off getting a nice and silent shuttle, i hardly know mine is on unless i wack the fan speed up when doom 3'ing it.

Colin

If an arctic cooler was fitted it would be ok.

As long as you don't start overclocking that Radeon your PC shouldn't melt, I reckon.

DiG wrote:
> Watercooling requires fans anyway

Yes, but you can use a couple of silent 120mm ones.

Watercooling requires fans anyway

Mine used to be silent until the socket on my motherboard was moved.

To be honest, it depends what you want to do, and how badly you want your computer to be quiet. The most important thing is to get a decent PSU and harddrive though - these are very loud and difficult to replace if you buy the wrong ones. Other things like fans, well, they can be tweaked with a bit of money and ingenuity.

One thing that is a myth though, is that watercooling is required for a silent computer. I can assure you, it's not.

Oh unless you have a Prescott.