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

[Thomas Laskowski]

Here is what I did to silence mine.  Dont try this if youre worried about
voiding the warranty...

I have and athlon xp 1800, but run it somewhat underclocked.

I also have a big cpu fan (80 mm) running off 5 volts instead of 12.

And my power supply fan running off 5 volts too.  The computer is whisper
quiet.  I cant hear it unless i concentrate on it.

There could be some overheating issues from doing this tho, but I havent
had a problem and I've been running like this for a while now.

Tom

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On Mon, 12 May 2003, Michael Zacherl wrote:

>
>
> Michael Buchstaller wrote:
> >>Now, that's cheating ;-). Then you can put the whole computer into
> >>another room.
> >
> > I would really like to do that. Every cable can be extended (Keyboard, mouse (USB),
> > audio and serial lines, MIDI...) But what is with the VGA cable to the monitor ?
> > Everything i have seen makes for an unusable video image, or is at least as expensive
> > as the PC itself.
>
> Is a RGB-Coax cable that expensive? I used a
> (borrowed) 20m cable to connect a Toshiba laptop
> and a Barco beamer. I needed an adapter, but it
> worked although the video signal of laptops is
> rather weak. Almost no reflections (ghost images?).
>
>    Michael.
>