Again, I'm not sure you need that kind of cooling power if you can find a case with good airflow. The more restricted the airflow the more fan power you will need to pull the air through (and louder). As for getting your fans down from 12v, this is the most basic method from Zalman that does 2 fans ...

None of those seem designed for the job. I would suggest the CompuNurse Dual:
http://www.extremeoverclocking.com/revi ... rse_1.html
http://www.directron.com/nursedual.html

This turns out to be a good testbench for running cpu's at full load. I almost had a meltdown after Folding all night with the closet door shut, my cpu was 82c in the morning! There are probably other ways to test your cpu at 100% for a while, but this seems to be a pretty good way. Keep on eye on t...

What components are you putting into it?? What PSU have you got now? The one that comes with the Sonata is not at all thrilling. And forget all about the Enermax case. The Evercase 4252 is a great case, no cutting required. It has the best airflow design of any case we've seen, thats part of the rea...

It will be invested directly into SPCR. It is not there to remove the banner ads, but it will prevent us from flooding the site with ads like so many other sites have done to pay the bills. Banner ads also take time to manage, and we'd rather be playing with hardware! We prefer content, and donation...

i think the single drive is certainly a better solution for you. simply suspending this drive or laying it on a foam surface in the case removes all vibration, making it very quiet. if you also need additional silencing it will be easier to apply to 1 drive than 2.

its in the other room!!

since i have cut the noise of my pc way down, my fridge is sounding more and more like a motor boat... i searched around for some fridge repair sites, but they were mostly indifferent or vague about making the damn things quiet. I pulled it out and had a look at it, applying all silentpc knowledge i...

i think the negative feedback in sound dampening comes from vibration. low frequencies will travel through anything which make them difficult to dampen (or try concrete!). dampening is effective for higher frequency fan noise and hard drive whine especially. I use akasa mats, but pretty much any sor...

aren't serial ata drives coming with new power connector types? finally we are seeing a beginning to an end of big ribbon cables, hopefully the ugly and messy power cables also. with better connectors i think my suggestion would be more possible, as you suspect MikeC, the current connectors may not ...

really big fan? i hope you're not talking about a mess like this one:

http://www.envador.com/Photos/PVCII/OpenedUp2.JPG
http://www.envador.com/Photos/PVCII/

this guy is really on the loose.

of course a light tapping sound from the keys may be necessary and unavoidable. but the level i'm imagining is that from a good laptop keyboard. they build those with quality in mind, they are tight but soft, and they don't rattle. they give a nice damp tap sound. i wish a manufacturer would make a ...

i am surprised to see the lack of enthusiasm for this topic. it is disappointing that all you silent pc'ers make so much time for your boxes, spend so much money, and are indifferent to the loudest thing in the room that is right in front of you. silent computing is about silencing your environment ...

The "faint" CRT buzz becomes clearly audible after silencing all other electronic components in your room. Fortunately it is also possible to silence. Buzz is caused by the monitor's rewinding coils. Just apply a strong layer of special plastic spray (from electronic shop, designed for coils) to cr...

what makes the keys so noisy is that they sit, or hover, on the spring mechanism that they clip onto. this explains why laptop keyboards are so quiet because they are nice and tight. lightly tap on your keys and you will notice they are all slightly loose, clumsy and loud. bigger keys are louder bec...

the left mouse button is now actually -much- quieter than the right which i did not isolate... i will experiment with using more of this stuff (i actually took a picture off my wall to get the blue tack from it and only had this little bit).. it is now at least at a tolerable level, but far from as ...

problem: too many untidy power supply cables. there are always twice as many power cables than I need, even in a pc with 4 drives and a floppy I have half a dozen cables that need strapped away. it seems that psu manufacturers boast about how many connections they have, but i need less. idealy i'd l...

I am very picky when it comes to monitors (and everything else). I have had a big run-around buying a 19" in the past few months. (I returned 3 of them). Tried 2 of the Panasonic p95+ which both had too many imperfections for the price. NEC's are the luck of the draw, I have had some really nice one...

should be fine as long as it doesn't break up... you don't want little particles of that stuff building up on your components, or bigger chunks getting stuck in a fan. double sided tape works well when attaching it to the case and making sure it doesn't come loose.

it is optical.

never heard of rockwool, is it used in other silentpc applications? where would i get some? i'm thinking i might try some thin, dense foam.

All of the IBM drives (about 4 of them, 40-80gb) I bought for systems in 2001 had the exact same condition. once in a while the drive 'chirped'. I've stopped buying them and stopped recommending them. 2 of them failed and went back. Not happy with IBM or Maxtor in the past 2 years. Too many failures...

I also own one of these drives and i agree with the last two responses. seagate barracuda V's will be available soon, and with serial ata it makes a great reason to upgrade and sell the western digital while it will fetch a good price. If serial ata doesn't interest you then the model IV's will go a...

those rolling/flat keyboards are no option, that is a ridiculous solution. the same goes for anything apple. ;o) here's my little experiment tonight... http://techniche.net/other/msmouse1.jpg the mouse, case apart. http://techniche.net/other/msmouse2.jpg those black boxes in front are the clickers, ...

this is a huge gap in the market and one i have been thinking about for years. i am also surprised how little attention this has recieved on silentpcreview. i asked a number of people in the tech industry and got mostly strange looks or laughs, no one understood why i would want to do this. but peop...