----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Strick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 12:14 AM Subject: Re: quiet ATX mid-Towers
| On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 07:39:25 -0700 (PDT), zera holladay wrote: | >> | > Hello, I am looking for a very quiet ATX mid-tower and | > I was wondering if anybody has a suggestion or | > recommendation. My hard disks produce the most | > decibels at the most annoying frequency -- it_s not a If it's a high pitched whiny type sound that resembles a rather noisy fan.. I have been there. I had a Maxtor hard disk that did this, I sent it back (RMA'd it) and they sent me a replacement which is silent. I have also has this issue with a laptop disk aswell, an IBM Travelstar. My friend also had this issue with a Western Digital drive... he got that replaced and it's silent like his other, smaller, WD drive :o) You may be lucky and the manufacturer will replace it or you may have to buy a brand new disk (if it is the hard disk making the noise). | > bad fan. I am an EE student using FreeBSD, so a quiet | > computer is very important to me. | >> | | and on Fri, 18 Jun 2004 12:10:20 -0500, Vulpes Velox responded: | >> | > ... | > | > Look around on some case modding and over clocking sites and the like. | > | > ... | >> | | When I recently assembled my new PC, I used | | www.silentmaxx.net and | www.endpcnoise.com and | | every other case and fan web site I could discover (e.g. via Google). | They were all commercial (i.e. sales) web sites, but some also offered | general advice on building quiet PCs. | | I also recommend searching for quiet-PC articles on the various hardware | guide web sites, particularly www.tomshardware.com. | | Dan Strick | _______________________________________________ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list | http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers | To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED] " _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
