Re: Quietish PC

[Mal Lansell <mal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 have
>seen...
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>http://tinyurl.com/cockj
>(apologies for the unfortunate link)
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>Dave
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>(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
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>(Thanks Paul, that?s great.)
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>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.
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>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!)
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>Andy
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>(why do all my posts have double line spacing in them? It?s not me
doing
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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
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>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,
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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 anyone
know
>if that's worth a go?
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>
>Thanks
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>
>Andy
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>-----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.
>
>Any advise appreciated.
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