Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 12:53:03 -0700 From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net> To: Greg Pavelcak <g.pavelcak@comcast.net>, zera holladay <zera_holladay@yahoo.com>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: quiet ATX mid-Towers Message-ID: <20040618195303.GH41460@seven.alameda.net> In-Reply-To: <20040618150504.GA277@bsd.home.net> References: <20040618143925.81911.qmail@web41411.mail.yahoo.com> <20040618150504.GA277@bsd.home.net>
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On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 11:05:04AM -0400, Greg Pavelcak wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 07:39:25AM -0700, zera holladay wrote: > > Under a kind suggestion, I am re-submitting this > > e-mail with a different subject. The old message was: > > > > 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 > > bad fan. I am an EE student using FreeBSD, so a quiet > > computer is very important to me. > > > > -Zera Holladay > > > > It seems that noise is an issue for more and more people now-a-days. If > you go online and google for "quiet computer case", you'll probably find > some places that make cases with noise reduction in mind. Antec, for > example, makes some. Note that you'll pay a premium: probably over $200 > for a quiet tower. > > If you think the hard drives are the main culprits, you might just try > getting some rubber washers between them and your case to reduce > vibration. That might be difficult in the 3 1/2" bay, but you can get > kits to convert your 3 1/2" devices to 5 1/4" for a couple bucks each > and add rubber washers to your heart's content. > > Finally, you don't say what kind of drives you use, but if your pc is > generally only being accessed by you and not several people > simultaneously, then you can pass on high RPM SCSI drives. They are > incompatible with noise reduction goals. > > Also, I don't mean to play list-cop, but I don't think this is a > -hackers topic, so I have responded to you directly and moved the thread > to -chat to keep it on the lists for additional replies. > > Good luck. > > Greg I can recommend the Antec Sonata case, you can usual buy it with a 380W power supply for like $100-130. I have it at home with two drives in it under my desk and I don't hear a thing from it. The case uses a 120x120mm fan in the back, which makes it pretty quiet. -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 You can find my resume at: http://seven.Alameda.net/~ulf/resume.html
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