RE: Quietish PC

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You have to be careful when suspending drives like that to make sure
they still have enough airflow to keep cool. When a drive is bolted into
a big metal cage, the cage acts as a massive heatsink conducting heat
away from drive. Suspended by elastic none of that conduction happens.
Most modern drives now have onboard temperature sensing and using
something like hddtemp or motherboard monitor will read it so you can
see whats happening.

Lee

> Mal,
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> Regarding silencing your HD.
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> 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.
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> Ho yin=20
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> -----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
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> 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.
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> 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 ;-)
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> Mal
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> David Irwin (Home) wrote:
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> >Andy,
> >You mentioned quite chassis fans - these are the best 80mm fans I
> have=20
> >seen...
> >
> >http://tinyurl.com/cockj
> >(apologies for the unfortunate link)
> >
> >Dave
> >
> >(no affiliation, just happy customer)
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
> Behalf=20
> >Of Andrew Tedford
> >Sent: 18 April 2006 11:56
> >To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> >Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Quietish PC
> >
> >(Thanks Paul, that=E2=80=99s great.)
> >
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> >So now I=E2=80=99m off to look around for a HTPC with XPME and
I=E2=80=
=99ll get one
> of=20
> >the Aero Flowers.  Guess I=E2=80=99ll have to look for quiet
chassis fan=
=E2=80=99s
> too.
> >
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> >
> >Just another thought though, I suppose I can=E2=80=99t house the
PC upst=
airs=20
> >and somehow distribute the video feed to the plasma screen
> downstairs?=20
> >Like a really long lead or something ?! (duh!)
> >
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> >
> >Andy
> >
> >=20
> >
> >(why do all my posts have double line spacing in them?
It=E2=80=99s not =
me=20
> >doing
> >it!)
> >
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> >
> >=20
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
> Behalf=20
> >Of Paul Gale
> >Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 11:19 AM
> >To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> >Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Quietish PC
> >
> >=20
> >
> >I've been running two water cooled top end PC's for 1-2 years now
> (and=20
> >upgraded components in this time). Water cooling is not bad but
does=20
> >require a fair bit of case space for the more efficient=20
> >radiators/pumps. I also found there is more maintenance
involved=20
> >(changing/topping up water) and over time, the pipes can get
brittle
> -=20
> >which is potentially a disaster waiting to happen! I have had a
> couple=20
> >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,=20
> >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=20
> >older Asetek waterchill) and it runs as quietly!
> >
> >If you have the space, I'd really recommend the Aero Flower -
I'm=20
> >probably going to buy another couple for other machines :)
> >
> >Paul.
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
> Behalf=20
> >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=20
> >know if that's worth a go?
> >
> >
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> >Andy
> >
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
> Behalf=20
> >Of Dean Barrett
> >Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 10:23 AM
> >To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> >Subject: [ukha_d] Quietish PC
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >My 2 year old Shuttle XPC seems to have gone wrong - had a very
> quick=20
> >power cut then kept restarting with errors. I guessed it was
the=20
> >HardDrive - put a new 300gig in installed XP and still having
> problems=20
> >so guess it the MB thats shot.
> >
> >I need to replace it with a similar machine, which is near to
quiet=20
> >(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=20
> >around the =C2=A3500 mark. I dont think it has to have massive
processin=
g=20
> >power as it mainly file serves, though it does play DVD's to
the=20
> >Plasma, and via the SVideo output to the tv distribution system.
I=20
> >guess i cant rob any parts from the old machine as i guess
everything
> is
> out of date.
> >
> >Any advise appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> >Dean.
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