Is it possible to have a "silent" pc?

[serpretetsky]

If your goal is total silence, don't forget about coil whine. I ripped apart a laptop and built a passive htpc out of it. It has no moving parts except for the mechanical hdd. It's pretty quiet, but I can hear coil whine coming from it whenever different stuff is loading. I think it has worse coil whine then most of my other computers, but still something to consider.

 

[MongGrel]

Most of the time I have a full blown concert going on in the general vicinity of my Main even when gaming, so even having mostly Noctuas mostly in it are irrelevant I guess sound wise even gaming.

At that point I don't hear the fans anyways even if it is quiet

Doing something like a Eric Clapton Blues fest on the side makes it kinda a non issue unless I had a ton of big Delta fans in there on overload which isn't necessary I guess.

I even just leave that main sound on gaming, makes fans a bit not a worry, might move a few out to the bedroom HTPC, my main is quieter than that is.

Probably not though, I'm a bit lazy here and there and they all working well where they are, though I need to get that L5639 in the other.

*edit* sorry went off topic there silence was the topic.

 

[Blain]

Honestly I could probably make one easily, water loop, I do aerospace R&D everyday and have been for years.

Seems unnecessary to me for the quite, the big guy on my right here barely makes any noise, and I just don't like having water near my electronics.

I'm guessing using a backhoe to bury a reservoir would be a bit over the top?

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I'm guessing using a backhoe to bury a reservoir would be a bit over the top?

I'm not patting myself on the back at all for this comment, but just to say I'd done a lot of web-surfing sometime between '04 and '06 on the emerging DIY cooling projects of ambitious geeks. That solution was one of them. The other was to bury copper line a foot or two underneath the nice green front lawn in arid Arizona, using an industrial-strength pump to bring it into a basement-computer's water-block.

Then, of course, the "bong-cooler movement" which seems to have a culture and spokespersons of its own.

Focusing on performance, I took a "second-place" attitude for sticking with my heatpipe coolers, and a "barely honorable mention" for my attention to noise. But we all despise noise. I'm please with my acoustic mods shown in my Gentle Typhoon thread, though. The CPU temperature has to rise above 65C to hear the worst of it, and the worst of it doesn't detract from my TV-viewing pleasure. Anything below that -- is essentially noiseless now.