QUIET PC

[Nooyawkah]

The recent issue of PC World talks about how to quiet your PC (and mine is sure noisy). Here are some of the products they recommend. And do you know anything about them?
**PC Power and Cooling Ultra-Quiet Silencer 235 Watt power supply. (The same company sells PSUs up to 400 Watts. How do I know how much power I need? I have an XP 1800+, 40GB 7200RPM hdd, 2 CD drives512 DDR Ram, ABIT KR7A mobo, GeForce 3 Ti200 vidcard, I'm NOT a gamer).
**PC Power Sand Cooling Silencer Auxillary Cooling Fan.
**A passive heatsink (no fan).
**Molex's Silent Drive (plastic case to cover drive). The magazine talks about it working with a 7200RPM hdd, while the company"s website says up **Dynamat Extreme Computer Kit (for vibration dampening)
**Anti-vibration mat.

Any experience with these? Thanks 4 help.
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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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[This message has been edited by Nooyawkah (edited 06-11-2002).]

[Fruss Tray Ted]

I found this info on-line and hope it helps you decide.

This is what I was looking for courtesy of the ocuk boards
PSU: What you need
AGP video card - 20-30W
PCI video card - 20W
AMD Athlon 900MHz-1.1GHz - 50W
AMD Athlon 1.2MHz-1.4GHz - 55-65W
Intel Pentium III 800MHz-1.26GHz - 30W
Intel Pentium 4 1.4GHz-1.7GHz - 65W
Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz-2.0GHz - 75W
Intel Celeron 700MHz-900MHz - 25W
Intel Celeron 1.0GHz-1.1GHz - 35W
ATX Motherboard - 30W-40W
128MB RAM - 10W
256MB RAM - 20W
12X or higher IDE CD-RW Drive - 25W
32X or higher IDE CD-ROM Drive - 20W
10x or higher IDE DVD-ROM Drive - 20W
SCSI CD-RW Drive - 17W
SCSI CD-ROM Drive - 12W
5400RPM IDE Hard Drive - 10W
7200RPM IDE Hard Drive - 13W
7200RPM SCSI Hard Drive - 24W
10000RPM SCSI Hard Drive - 30W
Floppy Drive - 5W
Network Card - 4W
Modem - 5W
Sound Card - 5W
SCSI Controller Card - 20W
Firewire/USB Controller Card - 10W
Case Fan - 3W
CPU Fan - 3W

[Nooyawkah]

very helpful, thanks

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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
---Edgar Allan Poe

[YODA74]

You can also put some dampening material on the walls of the computer to quiet it down, there are many different materials for sound proofing.I my self with seven fans running have a jet ready for take off. I went to the local Lowes and purchased a roll of Cork and attatched it to the interior walls, now she is very quiet.A lot of the noise you get is from metal touching metal and loose fitting frames (cheap cases)any time you can put padding in certain places it is a good Idea.I also have stripped them down and sprayed the frames with Rhino liner great material.

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[Nooyawkah]

Yoda, I learned about cheap cases the hard way. My next PC projecy for the wife included an Antec case and it was mich better. However, I'm stuck with this cheap one because I've done some modding and the entire inside is visible through a plexi window. I'd need sound killing material thet wasn't bad to look at? Any ideas?

Have you heard of Dynamat? http://store.yahoo.com/directron/40401.html

or Akasa? http://www.coolerguys.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=001&Product_Code=AC-AKPAX1


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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
---Edgar Allan Poe

[YODA74]

Both of those work very well I didn't put a window in this one so i wasn't concerned about appearence but i did paint the cork Blk so when i did open the doors it showed off my Red Rounded cables. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif I'll put a window in the next one.

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YODA74@windows-sucks.com
CCMR (http://www.dreamwater.net/tech/yoda74/index.html)

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