ugly. those swirly things are just disturbing. Makes it hard to read. I just wanted to keep my eyes from it. And they looked slightly familiar. If you remove 64 from it, it forms a mirrored S.

I doubt that EPIA M10000 will be able to play DIVX movies without problems though.. It can play DVD OK though. See www.mini-itx.com With some luck you can get M10000 completely silent. Buy Tranquil, or that other brand. They've built completely fanless systems. The drawback is that you only have pla...

I read the article and realized that it was back in August 2002 !. Anyway, The main gripe was that THG tried upgrading the case with a different motherboard, and then the cooling system didn't work for some mysterious reason. The manufacturer claims that THG broke/misused the heatpipe, but THG tried...

Also (if your soundcard supports it, but it probably does not..)

Use balanced cables if you can. Made my active monitors less buzzy. But that whine you got... I've no idea.

How could I be soo stupid!. A recent post by myself , concerning some posts about fans used in silenx 350W... This is almost too good to be true!. A company actually posting relevant information about their products in an independent forum!. Havent seen this ever. BIG thumbs up!. this must mean that...

This is almost too good to be true!. A company actually posting relevant information about their products in an independent forum!. Havent seen this ever. BIG thumbs up!. this must mean that SPCR really is the forum to find info about silent pc's. I'm buying my products from www.gtek.net (swedish re...

So what would the delivery cost be?. To say... Stockholm, Sweden, Europe.

I've seen alot of this: you all so stopid, I'm gonna **** with your *** before you know whats'a lot f*kin I RUUUUUUUUUUUUUULE, YOU VAN GET LEaving you sick of damn .... YOU ARE WRONG I AM RIGHT, mentality that I can't stand it anymore. Usually it's because some people don't read whole posts or simpl...

External AD could be a solution. Then optical s/pdif to your computer. But I guess it's not the solution you want. Quite expensive. But If you wan't true studio quality I guess it's the only way to go. Then (XVCO) temperature stabilized oscillators would be the next step (low jitter). www.jitter.de

For the german crowd out there: http://www.teschke.de/heatpipes/Neues/Komponenten/Netzteile/Prosilence__Teil_2/body_prosilence__teil_2.html interesting in this review is that.. "Während sich gerade unter 3 D Testen alle anderen lüfterlosen Netzteile durch mehr oder weniger unangenehme Pfeifgeräuche ...

I'd like to see a review of it here on SPCR!. What about coil whine?, and how much power can you draw from it?.

But isn't the problem that a 300W PSU always needs active cooling. I mean, there is probably a minimum of heat being generated that is greater than the morex 55W, even if the system is idle. And you have to know how hot your PSU is allowed to be to be able to design the cutoff for the fan.

Check out Terratecs cards. They're pretty good. The Aureon 5.1 Fun is quite a nice card, featuring true 44.1khz (s/pdif) (NO samplerate conversion) and 5.1 sound. I don't know about their DAC's though.. also http://www.harmonydesign.se/da9.htm this should be a decent dac. Be sure to buy it with a FI...

okay, this may sound stupid, but:

Is the cpu-fan blowing air onto the heatsink, or is it extracting the air from the heatsink?. Which is the most common?.

Isn't it time to write an article on this subject alone? coil buzzing I mean..

Which PSU 's to avoid and such. Perhaps it's a matter of consistent manufacturing quality, some buzz and some don't?.

Why not try out the Samsung V60. It's even quieter and cooler than Seagate. I think it's a 5200rpm drive so it's not the fastest one around, although I *believe* it should be sufficient for DivX, although I havent actually tried it out myself, yet.

seishino wrote:What is sounds like you're looking for is the pretty darn cool Lex LIGHT. 3 Ethernet Ports, 3 usb ports, 2 serial ports, an external 60 Watt power supply, and not a single fan in the entire thing.

.. but it doesn't have a S/PDIF out !!.

it was so close being my mp3 server....

I forgot to mention that the packaging of the PSU was VERY bad!. Basically it was rumbling loosely around inside the cardboard box with some, but not enough foam. I won't order from these guys again. Although their site is really nice and informative.

I was also dissapointed, reading that great review on THG. I heard an annoying high-pitched sound all the time. And since I like the continuos hair-dryer sound much better I sent it back. I'll try the Zalman piece next time, or I'll wait until they come up with cheap, dependable fanless PSU's . :cr...

way cool!. Have you finished your computer yet?. How does it sound .

why can't anyone sell passive PSU like that one.. I would consider spending 200$ if it would be completely quiet. No coil-buzz. Make it completely in Alu, and connect it to the Alu-case thus using the case as a gigantic "heat-pipe".

hmm, darn it. I was going to buy one of these.

tried it out briefly. Although a nice try it still has a long way to go. The MP3 part wasn't very good or intuitive. And you can't turn the monitor off without turning the sound off too. You want to be able to control your player without the screen lighting up your bedroom. Also the readablility fro...

why can't somebody just develop a cheap external powersupply you could buy separately. 100W would do just fine.

argh, must get a new cable to plug in my mike to the soundcard. And then I read some tests MikeC did on some PSU and that it probably wouldn't work reliable enough with modest equipment anyway.. but I'll dig into it this weekend anyway.

what about dissipating heat into the floor?. Isn't that the coldest place closest to your computer?.

I also took a peek on the finnish solution. ALthough I don't know any finnish it sure looked like he was on the right track. A Bass-port solution would be really cool. But what if we can't make it completely silent?. Then what kind of noise is tolerable?. White noise surely, but once you put in some...

Why not just have a hinged door on the front for Cd access? I mean, of all the hours you spend computing, how much of that time is actually spent switching CDs? Even though it would be noisier to open the cabinet and swap the CD, it's only going to be for a few seconds. It seems to me any other opt...

Here are the drawings for my little project.



The only poblem now is to find a way to access the CD-rOM easily, and still keep it soundproof.
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Any one working on such a cabinet?, anyway here is a design I came up with in 15 min. I'm planning to build a cabinet to my computer. Quite large of course. More than twice the width of a normal midi-tower. It should only have holes for cables (to keyboard, monitor etc) and one vent at the top (I be...