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Very nice! /me likes - would like to build a nice quiet machine like this but it's pretty far away on the radar...

LNCPapa

Dead-silent? Why? I wouldn't need one. I'm perfectly satisfied with my setup right now.

Completely noiseless computers are usually needed in some cases, like in recording studios. I think it's a very Good Thing for home use too, especially for those who leave their computers on at night. I use passive cooling with my PSUs and gfx card, but CPU heatsink (the default one) is too small, I think. And mass storage devices aren't quiet either.

DEAD SILENT pc? Unless they gonna suck out all the air from the tightly sealed casing to form vacumm..

Vacuum....hmm, anyone know what that would do to heat dissipation?

I'm two thirds the way near a slient PC.

PSU: QuietPC.com 300W PSU
HDD: Segate Barracuda IV
Intake Fan: Evercool 80mm - running at 1,000rpm
HSF: Zalaman Flower Cooler with Fan in silent Mode (1,600rpm)


The only thing that is left making noise is my GeForce 4 Ti4400 card. I'm gonna change that very soon . The new Zalaman ZMP-80 is what I'm looking at .



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If I remember my physics classes correctly, heat wouldn't go anywhere, it would just stay there until something that conducts heat is used.
It's like vacuum flasks.

Right mic, but the things inside there getting hotter and hotter will expand and contract with the changing temperature and eventually the heat, along with everything else would go Everywhere.

Isn't it a law of thermodynamics that heat always moves from a hot spot to a cold spot?

Yeah Phant...All energy seeks balance, so it gives it's heat to the next conductible thing until they both are the same temperature.. If you pour a few mL of 12* water into a gallon of 400* water what's going to happen?

Anyway I don't want to get back into my 9th grade Physical Science class, it definitely wasn't fun.

Whatever happens, i believe they make power supplies with fans only, So, your Pc is going to make some noise.

There are few exceptions to this from what I remember, but this is how it works for all intents and purposes. And here on earth it is especially true.

Even in a vacuum heat cannot remain constant... That would be a little too much like perpetual energy I'm sure.

I have a DEAD SILENT PC!

It's an AST 75mhz with 8mb ram ;-)

I've removed the top cover and put a large heatsink on the cpu (no fan), then I've removed the cover from the powersupply to help the air get out (again removed it's fan)

I start it with a DOS bootdisk, then I make a ramdrive of 2mb and copy DOS onto it, change all variables to pint to the ram drive and remove the floppy drive. (it doesn't have a harddrive)

And viola, it's a dead silent PC!!!

Ok you say, isn't it overheating? nope, I'm monitoring the temps with diodes and the PSU and CPU never exceeds 40C...

It's running the Distributed.net OGR client (like Seti@home or United Devices but can run on much slower hardware and is compatible with virtually all platfroms...)

I'd like you guys to help me with something though, this AST doesn't have any prints on the mobo to show me what speed the CPU really is running at so I'd like a program like WCPUID (which displays CPU speed) but for DOS... (v7.10, i.e. the Win98 version of DOS)

I also have a DEAD silent PC.

It's off

I could get it down to 29dBa if I had watercooling...

Holin Datentechnik has PC-CONFIG, it should show the speed.

Having a silent PC (save the HDD) is no big achievement for non-gamers.

My server for a long time was a fanless p2 deschutes @ 400mhz. No CPU fan, no case fan, no power supply fan. The PSU got quite toasty but never enough to scare me.

VIA C3s 800mhz and below will run without fans, I believe (in fact they were designd to do just that).

I use my comp for much more than just gaming...

Like now when I'm surfing in the morning; I can't turn up the music because then I'll wake the whole hose up...

And sitting listening to a loud fan then makes me go crazy, remember; this comes from someone who has been OC:ing for a looong time...

I bought the first Alpha 6035 aluminium cooler when it was released years back, ahh the memories

Oh; and I found a good progg "syschk." Thanks for the links though, and sorry for the delay in my reply