A simple and effective but not elegant way to stop HDD vibration, is simply placing the HDD on a piece of soft foam at the bottom of the PC case. How about a comparison of this vs. suspension?

Quiet PSUs are expensive, often in the $75 range. However, if the reader is willing to void the warranty, he can buy a good quality PSU (like SPI) and simply replace the fan with a low noise one. How about a review of these home tweaked PSUs vs the recommended PSUs ?

I've experienced a Sony Vaio desktop that's really quiet. I've also heard that Dell 4500 is very quiet. Those PCs are much cheaper than a specially build quiet PC. Sony build their own proprietary PSU (they had to recall all of them one time). A review of these systems will help many reader who are ...

I put in a Zalman PSU and was not very happy about it's fan noise, but hesitated about replacing the fan, which will void the warranty. I finally replaced my Zalman PSU stock fan with a Panaflo, what a difference it makes! :D To me it's definitely worth voiding the warranty and shortening Zalman's l...

I replaced my stock PSU's fan with a Panaflo, connected to a fan connector outside of the PSU, run it at 5 or 7 volt, with good result. Since this is a Via 900 based system, this is the only fan in the system. Before I replaced the fan, I tried to put in a Seasonic Micro ATX PSU, and the unit burned...

How about the new IBM Deskstar 180GXP series HDD? Good review at:
http://www.storagereview.com/welcome.pl ... 207_1.html

-Li

Mike,

How about the Fortron PSU? It's claim to be running at 18 dba and the price is very reasonable.

http://www.exoticpc.com/merchant2/merch ... SILENT-PSU

http://www.directron.com/fortronps.html

Li