Quiet that PC!!

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Has anyone bought one of those quiet power supplies and where you happy with the results?

Do they make quiet fans for the processor fan?

As an alternative, how long can you run a monitor and keyboard cable to try an move the PC in a closet?

Any suggestions would be helpful.
 
Dude, this is a really tough one. Yeah quiet power supplies help, but you'll still hear em. If you can hear em, then your condensor mic's can hear em 10 times better :) You can definately help out your mixing process by quieting the fans down though. Here's a good wrapup with links to good products: http://fredrik.hubbe.net/silence/cpu.html

I still have yet to find a great solution. Lots of people say this and lots of people say that. I think the only way to completely get the PC out of the picture is to move the PC out of the picture. The problem with this is not keyboard and mouse cable length, since going USB solves this problem quite nicely, the problem is your video cable. Anything over 6' is going to get pretty funky unless you buy a super high quality cable, or a signal amplifier of some sort (many high quality KVM switches are amped).

What I've been doing lately is just recording in another room, running back and forth. It sucks, hard.

Slackmaster 2000
 
Slackmaster2K

Wow, good site. Thanks.

I think I am going to build an enclosure, like one of those dot matrix cases from the past. Put some sound foam on the inside and run two vent hoses like my gas clothes dryer, only smaller. One hose would be the air in and the other air out. Then put a small air fan on the end of each hose, one to pull in and the other to push out air. Then I am going to run these out of the room.

Quite extreme but possilby I could build this for around $50 vs. a new power supply, and other noise reduction replacements for the current computer case. I checked another site http://www.quietpcusa.com/ and it would cost a couple of hundred dollars to go after this with replacement parts.

Another noise problem is the external CD burner, what a whining this things kicks out. If I put the whole rig in a box I think I would be happier.
 
I've tried the dryer hose thing. It worked a bit, but not very well. For what it would cost to build an encloser, you just might be able to get that PC in a closet. Lots less trouble!

Slackmaster 2000
 
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