well....I have a thing against cases...dont ask me why..but I just do.... as for water cooling, my main PC is water cooled...using the zalman reserator...and it was easy as pie and I know how quiet a PC can be...my main PC's only noise souce whatso ever is it's hard disk, which is suspended, and at ...

Thankyou for your advice.... trying to clarify... if you look at the mobo and cpu from the following link you will see the sort of price/performance I am after... http://arstechnica.com/guides/buyer/system-guide-200504.ars/2 (ignore the rest of the article...I will sort that stuff out myself) bah......

so? any ideas?
I darnt start buying yet, or I know I'll end up screwing it all up and buying noisy stuff!

sorry, what I meant was, it would be better to have the disk contatly spinning, at idle, rather then turning off every few moments, which is annoying

true, but if you have a relitivly noisy piece of hardware, and cant afford/cantr change hardware for technical reasons, then software based methods can be a help

150 800mhz dells, a crappy air con...and the sound of the only 3 people in this part of the call center typing

ok, I am building a new pc.....and need to decide what mobo, cpu, grpahics card and water cooling thingy to use... I do not want to spend too much... the mobo, hd, cpu, cooler, ram would preferably cost no more then £400...$800 on the other hand, I would like good speed from my CPU...a 3000+ Athlon ...

silence in software.... (sorry, not sure which place to post this...but you have to store software somewhere, right? ;) ) figure such a list may be useful... What software based silencing methods are there, and how do you do them? I mean things like.... 1 - using a Ram Disk...with your temp folder o...

Deorby - AMD Athlon 2500+ running at 2Ghz
Orburg - Mini Itx Nehemiah 1.2Ghz
both running 24/7

I am also trying to get my grandad's pc folding, but it is not on very often...I need to get a vnc client on it so I can turn it off before I go to bed...

Negril - AMD Athlon 2400+

well, the thing is, silence is very important here...any pc would be less then 1.5 m from my head when so I would want to be sure that any parts would be quiet... (unfortunately, heat is a problem, as even in winter, my room is far too hot..perhaps I should leave england? ;) ) a random 2nd hand PSU ...

would I be right in thinking that if you just got a mobo, cpu, power supply, and something to boot off (network boot? usb thingy?) then you would have all you need to run a folding client? and such a device would only need cooling for the power supply and the cpu, right? and the power supply would n...

ah, but are they quite?

*points to the name of the forum*

Europe, by santana

They deny the existance of Nottingham?
good!

DERBY!

ok, I dont know who you are DavidMitchell, but I will beat you! you cant stop me!...well...actually, you are...for the past week or two, I have been watching us swap places all the time....right now, eoc says we are equall on folding power however, my PCs have been off, so consider your current lead...

ok, panic over....geek folding stats was showing someone in the top page as being someone who is over taking me

I always prefer winter...british weather is to hot...now folding makes me want it even more

Ok, he I was, slowly folding away, when I decided to check the overtake list


WTF!!?!?!?!

ac auroao (sp?) home of the stealth thingy, shooting up from their fomerly semi dormant state, now folding quicker then a black belt in origami!

what happened?

wall clocks are anoyying....

if you under clock a wall clock, will time go slower, and thus give you more time for games, forums, and folding?

updated... http://cdlinux.netfirms.com/desktop2.png now using litestep.... also shows desktop of mini itx pc, through VNC top left shows system info, top right is task bar (firefox viewing spcr, and a folding client) bottom left is the run box, and winamp, bottom right is the system tray, and the vi...

...downloaded it, but, whats the best settings for a barton, and vor a via?

solution
dont turn off PC

thanks!

I have a spare zalman mobo HS, so that will do.

100ppw? that'll do me nicely

Ok, I need a second PC, so I can have something to test client server type stuff on, and to give a few extra folding cycles while it is doing nothing... maybe I will use it as a mail server. but probably wont. no case, small hard disk, no monitor or CD rom (except when installing it) Win 98, some ki...

I was going to do something like that, but, then you are adding a source of noise, thus making the suspension pointless...

ok, cool..I will get one ordered.

ah, winter...when mother nature helps overclockers and silent PC enthusiasts

Well, I want to get the Seasonic Super Tornado 300, to replace my Nexus NX-3000 ...(need the extra quietness) I know I can get the 350w from kool-n-quiet (dont know the revision, but what about the 300w version, in the UK? anyone found anything? - edit - Is it worth getting the 350 version instead o...

sorry for not replying, somehow lost this thread

the noise is a sort of clicking/buzzing, sort of humming...

the noise has been there for years, just did not care until my pc was quietened

I think I am too much of a clumsy noob to mod the thing though.

I have a barracuda 2700.7 It is suspended…the suspension work well (is as good as having nothing touching the disk) (made a cage out of them metal right angle things you use for shelves...) In my PC I have only 2 noise sources, my disk, and my power supply (nexus 3000) When doing not a lot, there ...