You could try searching various second-hand sites looking for old Electrolux freezers. Electrolux used to make at least refrigerators, but possibly freezers as well, that had no moving parts. Instead of a pump, they used a perculator, the same mechanism that pumps up the water in a regular coffee ma...

If you decide to cut the hole in your bookshelf, you might consider removing the air filter inside the projector, which is almost certainly restricting airflow. You'll need to filter the hole instead, or dust will reduce the effectiveness of the solution over the long term, but so long as the hole ...

I dont buy it. heres why: the mass of the unit after 2-3 days will be all the same temperature.the flowing upwards center water that falls down the top to the sides will eventually be the same temperature as the sides. Also, the materials uses are copper and aluminum. At least. And it looks like th...

That review does not 'feel' very professional. All the pictures look like they where yanked from a ThermalTake advertisement, and the review almost reads like an advertisement itself. The reviewer talks to much about how stylish the tubes look, and to little about things like how easy/hard it is to ...

Hi, With the help of SilentPcReview, I've managed to make my computer very nearly silent. The only moving components in my system are the pump* of my reserator and the HDD, which I have enclosed in a home made water-cooled box made of 4mm thick iron and loads of sound dampening material. At any dist...

Lope, if you really want your disks quiet, you need to seal them up pretty tight. I made a steel box from 3mm steel, which i covered with sound dampening material. To remove the heat from the box, i used a large block of copper (about 14x9x1 cm) connected to a Reserator GPU waterblock. The result is...

Standard aluminum heatsink with fins. 70*15mm fan, loud, even at minimum RPM. My mobo supports Cool 'n quiet, which is an awesome idea. Unfortunatly it can only be used by supported HSF, which AFAIK means only the stoch AMD HSF. I switched the fan for a 80mm Pabst, an the computer was much quieter a...

My brother and I talked about implementing something similar to what MikeC is proposing, i.e. making a Zalman TNN-clone. In the end I got myself a Reserator instead, because it is so much less work.

This is a pretty good german test of the standard and MAXI Konvektomatic. According to that site, a 100W heat source will cause the Konektomatic MAXI to reach a stable state with the CPU temperature about 13 K above ambient temperature, using an Eheim 1046 pump. I use a Reserator to cool of an A64 ...

If you suspect hte PSU is delivering out of spec voltage, you can always try tweaking the voltage in the BIOS. I'd start by trying a higher memory voltage.

Rusty, I can think of a few reasons for wanting to OC. (Note: I do not overclock any of my machines) I sometimes dabble with Raytracing, and my renderings can take several days. 25% higher speed would mean a lot there. Other people like to do distributed computing. An extra 25% folding performance i...

hugekebab: The Papst fan is pretty quiet when undervolted. If you are running it at stock speed I would recommend that you buy a case fan and two fan controllers. Then undervolt both you CPU fan and your case fan.

It can probably be done with a bit of work. My Athlon64 Mobo has a backplate which covered the mounting holes and could not be removed. I ended up finding screws of the right size for use with the holes in the backplate.

Two identical drives will produce 3 dB more sound than one drive. If the noise difference between the small and quiet drive and the larde and noisy drive is more than 3 dB go for the two smaller ones.

Delete away! This forum is about silent computing. It should be dedicated to increasing the signal/noise ratio.

mephistophelas: I bought an Arctic cooling cooler a few months ago as a temporary solution while building my real quiet rig. It was not a very silent cooler though it surprises me that yours is noisier than your stock Intel cooler. But it is still a cheap and low performing cooler, and you should no...

Chancellor Martok, if you hit 40C ambient, I'm pretty sure you'll be happy you didn't go fanless! My fanless setup uses a Reserator to cool the following components: Athlon 64 3000+ @ 1.3 V Northbridge Geforce 5400 Seagate Barracude 7200.7 160 GB HDD Silverstone Fanless PSU At idle, the Reserator wa...

The rumoured Zalman fanless PSU that has been discussed on this forum seems to be pretty close to what mathias is suggesting, except for the fan part. Not sure why you would want to couple a fan with the internal half of a PSU with a fan. You can just buy an additional low noise fan if it's getting ...

Grattis, mannen!

I'm wondering about the accuracy on the dB measurements. Tiny fluctuiations in room temperature can easily be heard on many computers I've used over the years. Add to this that some fans have a varying noise level, dB-meters are inaccurate, the meters placement, 1" from the case makes it very sensit...

Link19, are you sure an Athlon is your best choice? If you want a solid state athlon you have to buy a really expensive Fanless PSU, and you will need to underclock the processor down to really low performance levels as well. If you go with a mini-itx system you can run it at stock speeds, comparabl...

Well done MikeACRyan! I look forward to reading the review.

Inet: Are you sure the brown stuff isn't just corrosion? If the plastic has actually started to melt, it will usually be slightly deformed, which would probably make it very hard to connect it to the mobo. The safest way to connect a multimeter to your computer is to do it while the computer is off....

Hi!

I just bought a Reserator myself, and I am building my own drive cage. None of the HDD colers i found could cool two HDDs while also silencing them completely and fit in my chassi. I'll post in this forum about how it all turns out.

Wim: Yes, I've claimed that Qwery is not significanlty worse, speedwise. I still claim that Qwerty is not significantly worse. You keep bringing up all the theoretical advantages of Dvorak as proof of it's superiority, when there are numerous tests (not just the Strong tests, read my previous links)...

Yes! A comparative review would be great. I would also want to see a comparison with how well elastic bands quiet the disc, and I would like to see the tests performed with a a HDD with a noticable whine. While whe're on this topic, it seems that the huge variations in sound levels between HDDs of t...

wim: If you read throgh my comments I have never claimed that the Qwerty keboard is better than the Dvorzak layout. I've repeatedly said that studies show very little difference in typingspeed between the two. And if you read throgh the articles I've linked, you will find tests showing this deiffere...

So you plan on watercooling your hard drives? Yep, that's the plan. There are HDD-cages for silencing and watercooling your drives, but they're expensive, I can't find any reviews of them, two of them woudln't fit in my case and they don't look they'd completely silence a disk. If my homebuilt cage...

Are there any stores near you that caries them? In that case I would go look at them and buy the heaviest of the two. High mass is a great way to silence something. Other than that, I was thinking about buying a Xilencer earlier, so I looked around the net for reviews. Couldn't find any. In the end ...

Straker: You are forgetting that hoses have internal resistance. Just keeping the water flowing throgh the hoses is not a neglectable part of the work a pump has to do in a WC system. I guess you could easily fit a really thick hose with minimal resistance inside the reserator if you could just find...