Not to burst your bubble. I just got one of those and installed it in my machine to get rid of an annoying high pitch whining/whistling noise from my Wester Digital drive. I had found out that suspension likely wouldn't help, so enclosing it sounded like a good idea. The good news is that it did, as...

I'm going to replace the fan today with one that will start at 5 volts or less, and of better quality (less noise). I have an extra 5 volt connection I can use if the motherboard one is dead. Yesterday I started the fan with 12 volts, then quickly switch it to 5 volts, which kept it spinning. It jus...

I've just bought a nice Asus Vintage AH-1 barebone with AMD64. The system is not very loud, but can be heard clearly. The chassis fan on the other hand has never moved, except when I connected it to an external 12v connection just to make sure it wasn't broken. Could this just be the motherboard con...

I've been looking for a PC for a while that was quiet (not 100% silent) and powerful, yet small and handy. I do 3D graphics work and some gaming, plus a lot of 2D graphics. I've mostly been looking at workstations and SFF machines (though the latter seem to be hard to get silent and powerful). Today...

macdrew: Thanks for posting actual experience of using this machine. Would love to get more of those....or a full review of this machine on the site. My sister has a G4 iMac (the one that looks like a lamp), and I found it to be very silent, except for the optical drive which was rather noisy. I've ...