Building a new puter. Must be cool & silent ;)

[Ebola]

just buy a quiet hsfan and line the case with dynamat. you wont be able to hear anything.

 

[Starfoxer]

take this computer, and build it inside of a mini fridge. it would
be very quiet and very cold.

 

[supraway]

Why not use convection cooling? Just lift the case off of the ground a little bit, cut holes in the bottom and top, make sure there is a passageway for air, and the hot air rising from the top will allow cool air to come in through the bottom. That could almost eliminate fans.

 

[T20]

yar, thats what the G4 Cube uses...


I am thinking a quiet PS, huge heatsink, undervolted athlonxp. with a switch on the case. flip the switch on and fans go on....

 

[Crash893]

that wont work you would have to wrap the mobo in a circle with a huge donut hatsink in the middle


i always wanted to know if you could do passive watercooling

have the hot water rise to a radator and then when it cools have it fall back down and push more water down twords the cpu

 

[Twinkle]

Maximum PC built a passice heat pipe a few moths ago...or was it a year, or more....aww i dunno...anyhow, one of the P-III Tulies should be able to run on passive, just makesure it is a really good heatsink.

 

[CrystalMethod]

You should check into some of the stock Intel HSF's. They're awesomely quiet, and would probably do the trick.

 

[Guid0]

I had exactly what you want set up. It was my Streaming MP3 server and FTP server. Basicly it was a cely 400@450 with just the CPU fan(it ran 24/7/365 ecept for maybe ocasional maintance(ran for almost a year without reboot)), running linux redhat 7.2 sits about 2 feet from my bed and it was dead silent. the loudest part of the whole thing was the hdd. i couldn't even hear the PSU (it was a sparkle or something like that) 300w. shoot you could probably get away with setting up like a P133 for what you wanna do.......and dang cheap too...........QUIET SHHHHHHH

Good luck

 

[natopotato]

i hope it all runs good for u

 

[Dagon]

You could most likely get away with a celeron/duron and a huge copper Heatsink(ala MC462).

I know my comp ran for over a hour stable with no fan's@1400, watching a DVD.

Contrary to popular opinion, AMD's are actually quite tough mofos!

Temp was 89C though

Most likely it would still be dead silent if just used a 80mm panaflow L1 and/or 7 volt'd it.

Make sure you use a quiet HD! My quantums are very quiet, every WD I've used has been LOUD.