Well I'm halfway through setting up my 2nd (hopefully silent) rig after changing the heatsink, powersupply, modding the case a little etc. and i felt i could do with a break and a cold one
While i was modding i started getting all these wierd silent computing jokes popping up in my head for no apparant reason.. so i thought i should make up a list and post them here. (where else on the web could people relate to them?)
Enjoy, and if you like them add some more of your own!
TOP 10 SIGNS YOU TAKE SILENT COMPUTING TOO SERIOUSLY
10. You have offically labeled yourself a General in the War Against Heat. You refer to your main workstation as "The Forward Command Post".
9. When dropping hints about what family members should buy for your birthday, you need to keep reminding yourself that others find it rude when you immediately rip apart and modify their gifts.
8. You find yourself looking down and seeing your Dremel in your hand and you don't know how it got there. But you feel so insecure without it you always smile when this happens.
7. 25 years from now you start your own cult which worships a giant all-copper heatsink moulded into the shape of (surprisingly enough)... a heatsink. You claim it has mystical powers and conduct ritual sacrifices in it's presence which involve waving lots of small plastic fans around and making bizarre clicking noises with your tongue.
6. Watching the news you see a story about a 10 year old boy from Bangladesh who needs radical open-heart surgery to live but his parents can't afford it. As the news-reader mentions that "..some brave surgeon is needed to save this boy's life" you look over at your Dremel and the new carving attachment and think "hmm.."
5. You have noticed a disturbing trend: The longer you own a computer case and the more you mod it, the less metal is left. You imagine 10 years down the track being left with several rubix-cube sized objects, and being worried than miniaturization in fan-design isn't advancing fast enough to keep up.
4. After months of effort your computer has become so silent that the the loudest thing you can hear after turning it on is your own breathing. The sound starts grating on you after awhile and you begin reading medical journals with the hope of building some kind of lung-filter, and maybe even increasing the airflow in the process.
3. You own so many Zalman products you wish they could just send you one of each new version and bill you. You also wish they would stop sending copies of their inter-office memos by mistake. Maybe it's because you've bought so much of their damn stuff you're now a major stakeholder.
2. You find you have developed an allergic-like reaction to stock components of any kind. Even if you have to remove and replace them with something that looks the same, sounds the same, and performs the same you still do it because it makes you feel better.
1. When having sex with your spouse you try to guess the dBA level of your companion and imagine how many 80mm Panaflows it would take to equal it!
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