Case modding.

Wireless keyboard abd mouse, extended monitor cable... place PC in attic.

 

No, not the geeky nonsense with the LED's.. Something else.

My case CPU and PSU fans were quite noisy.
So I took advice from "here" and purchased a much less noisy CPU fan.
CPU fan noise is now negligible but the PSU fan is as noisy as ever.
Short of replacing the PSU I have only been able to lower the background hum
by siting the entire unit on a pad of material that is used to soak up oil
spills, clad the inside of the case with the board used under laminate
flooring and reduced reflected sound by semi-cladding the bureau that the
unit sits in with the same stuff.
Thus far I can happily say the ambient noise level is low enough to hear the
feckin great spider that just walked down the wall !


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[platy - yesterday]
Put it in another room. Run cables.
[ginge - yesterday]
I don't have another room more suitable.

Do keep up at the back.

 

Ginge? He'z just ziz guy, you know?

Buy one huge hard disk bigger than the 4 in it. Throw old 4 out.

 

Some, depends on what sort of case it is, the size and number of fans
and the make and model of drive(s) fitted.

The Akasa Paxmate stuff is what I used in the firewall/router I built
for Suze's place.

It quietened it down a bit but the main problem with that rig was the
cheap nature of the beast, i.e. built on an old Packard Hell P75 desktop
chassis with limited scope for component swap-outs.

It had a *really* clattery 60mm PSU fan which I managed to replace with
a (slightly) quieter 80mm job but most of the noise actually comes from
the ancient Seagate 500MB drive in it.

Throw it away and buy a proper quiet case. I bought an Antec Sonata and
it's fab. 120mm case fan in the rear and a thermally-controlled 80mm
fan in the PSU. It also has the biggest, quietest Zalman cooler on the
CPU (a P4).

Drives are still a tad noisy due to my reluctance to throw away my old
Western Digital 7200rpm drive I use for storing my MP3s, etc. but I will
probably get around to swapping it and its bigger Western Digital SATA
brother for a couple of Samsung Spinpoints which *are* a lot quieter.

If you have room (and money) then Zalman do a neat heat-pipe drive
cooler enclosure with rubber mountings which *really* works.

On the subject of mountings, try and isolate everything that moves from
the chassis either through rubber or silicone mounts.

And make sure you've got a decent set of "feet" on the bottom of the
case if the thing stands on a hard floor or desk.

Heh.