[sdiy] OT: The best ways to silence a PC?

[Magnus Danielson]

From: Peter Grenader <petergrenader at mksound.com>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] OT: The best ways to silence a PC?
Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 08:10:24 -0600

> OK, don't laugh...
> 
> I have a Mac tower, and those things make more noise than the Sopwith Camel
> on take-off.  What do I do for critical listening?
> 
> I wear headphones.

KFNNUFFFFFF!!! <Trying to avoid laugthing but with mouth firmly shut with both
hands and a knee!>

> I know, its a band aid, but it works.
> 
> The best possible solution I think is to do what the pro's do - if they want
> quite, they use a laptop.

Or to put it differently, use a machine which was designed to be quiet.

Cheers,
Magnus - who the other day was in a computer room where the most noise came
from the 200 1U PCs crunching DNA-sequences but the coolest machine where still
just a 35 kW computerroom heater (no OS on yeat, so no calculations, so 35 kW
is the idle temperature...)