Quiet PCs… shhh
posted Jun 3rd 2005 5:30AM
The advent of PCs in the living room has spawned a new breed of tech maven — the silencer! — a growing group of
dedicated hobbyists whose sole quest is to choke out every last whiz and pop generated by your hapless PC.
SilentPCReview.com founder Mike Chin says the most annoying sounds are the whines and hums from spinning parts and
vibrating metal or clicks from defective fans. However, gentle whooshing tends to fade into the background 'cause "it's
the sound of trees, it's the sound of waves" (and coincidentally the sound of bubbling bong water, eh, Mikey?). So if
submerging your running computer in a fishtank of mineral oil (yes, permanently) or spending $1,200 on a 70-pound
computer case to go from whisper-quiet to Nirvana-inducing "normal breathing" sounds reasonable, then this might be the
hobby for you — or maybe some implant therapy could
help.
It's Orac from Blake's 7, the original fairy lights in fishtank computer.
www.blakes-7.co.uk/chars/orac/orac.shtml
Or just pick up an Apple Cube from Ebay...
Is that a Bong in the background?
Looks more like a (homemade?) hookah than a bong to me.
How about cutting a hole in the wall and putting the PC in an adjacent room? Would make accessing the CD-ROM drive a bit inconvenient, though.
frankly any advance that allows me to make delicious, fresh fries to nibble while at the computer is nothing but fabulous
Get a Mac?
At least, yes, you can use that PC for what's it's meant for: frying foods.
heh.
PC-apologists are 'tards! Nyah nyah!
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hehe, all that work to silence his PC and he does nothing with the old CRT. Humming CRT's are my biggest pet peeve.
Or, you can put your computer (computers) in another room and run wires through to a wall jack where your monitor, keyboard and mouse would connect.
#8: Agreed. Although as long as a monitor has signal, I'm usually ok.
I work in TV, and I've often walked into a production truck with over 100 monitors scattered through the truck. If ONE is powered on with no signal going to it, I have to hunt it down and kill it. I can't stand it. !!
I'm still waiting for my $249 10.2ghz liquid nitro cooled wristwatch PC.
Wow, this is just coming in NOW? this has been an art at hardforum.com and has no right to be reproduced in this sort of fashion as a "new" discovery, people have been modding and using sound insulation in PCs forever... the current choice for best insulation is celiling tiles panles from lowered ceilings if there isn't any acryllic window, and regular foam insulation if there is.... I, for one, am offended
talk about frying your computer.lol