[linux-audio-user] Quiet PC Components?
Lee Revell
rlrevell at joe-job.com
Sun Feb 26 15:45:08 EST 2006
On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 23:28 +0100, Esben Stien wrote:
> aljordan at maine.rr.com writes:
>
> > silence their PC
>
> Zalman Reserator water cooling for GPU, CPU and chipset; 1dB SPL,
> unbeatable.
>
> Then get a fanless PSU from thermaltake, 0dB SPL, unbeatable.
>
> The only thing making noise now, is the hd. I'm working on setting up
> remote boot, but I have some issues with running apps locally. When I
> figure it out, there will be no sound detectable at all;). (well, 2dB
> SPL)
>
> There is also 1dB SPL from my LCD, it seems.
>
You could experiment with laptop mode where all writes are deferred as
long as possible. With enough RAM and sane apps this should cause the
disk to stay spun down most of the time.
Lee
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