So I replaced my old Nexus Value 430 with a Seasonic SS-460 and it ended up being louder than the Nexus. At first the Seasonic had a slight whine to it but it was hard to hear and you really had to put your ear right next to it to hear it. A few days later and it developed this loud pulsing, buzzing...

A multiport external eSATA enclosure such as the icydock seems like overkill when a single harddrive dock can be had from ~20-40 USD. Plus the individual drives are easier to store in something like a fireproof safe. Is there some benefit i'm not aware of when using the much more expensive external ...

I would just like to say I'm a little disappointed in this article. Only a little. I was expecting something akin to opening up the monitor, dousing the offending parts in hot glue, lining the case with some sort of dampening rubber and then stuffing the empty space with cotton balls only to wrap it...

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Holy crap, that is a big power draw at idle! Are you running CnQ? I would have though that your system would idle a lot closer to 100W than 200W at most unless you have a lot of HDs in the system. I forgot that my LCD monitor was plugged in and on at the time. I turned it off and measure it again, ...

I was debating whether this should go into the System Advice or the Green Computing forum and I finally decided that my inherent goal was green computing more than silent computing, the silent factor will just be a byproduct of the green computer. So here goes. I want to build an low power, energy e...