Which way do you prefer or "Have it your way."

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I built mine to be as quiet as my Imac, which  raised the price to Imac territory...lol

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ur so awesome!  I love your philosophy!




I don't care how big the case is but I would tend toward a larger case so it can have more drive bays.

My old firefox pc from 2004 broke down recently so I suddenly needed a new puter and I bought a random Acer computer from NewEgg thinking that modern computers would be super quiet....  well... it is totally silent.  Except the hard drive makes this chirp sound sometimes, kind of like a click.  Its really noticeable.  Just some idiosyncracy of the 2TB hard drive.

If the computer had not made that chirpy noise then my friend would have bought the exact same model of computer.  He is like me he wants something quiet.

I had absolutely no way to figure out how to buy a silent pc at a reasonable price.  There were websites advertising silent pcs but they were really tremendously expensive and were lacking various features like VGA ports or PS/2 ports.  I am certainly not paying top dollar for a computer that does not even have PS/2 ports!

So anyway I ended up getting this random Acer mass market puter and am having a "meh" experience with it.

I should have asked for your advice.  There it went again, that loud chirpy noise.

Really the way to fix that is get an SSD...no more noise.

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is it a laptop? I got a laptop recently that is really annoying, the hard drive makes this noise like snipping of scissors. The worst bit is that when that happens the whole thing freezes up, like it keeps parking the head even though it has to access the disk to do anything at all such as typing some text.

I hate that laptop.

Oh it also reboots itself without asking, even while the lid is shut, somehow. I had applications open! Not anymore

Sounds like the drive is trying to power down really aggressively to save juice, I have an Hitachi external that turns off every few seconds after I use it. Makes a lovely CLANK turning on.

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Crucial just came out with a 1TB for 500 bucks, a sequel to the M$, so it won't be long.

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On the subject of loud or quiet fans, I've got an AMD 4850e (45W TDP) with a Scythe Ninja 2 on it. Which is kind of silly. At idle the fan spins at 400rpm. Sometimes. When it can be bothered. If I really push the CPU it goes up to a whisper.

The only other fan in the system is in the PSU, which was a pretty quiet Antec one even though it's only an 8cm fan. I swapped it for a Nexus one anyway. The HDD is in a Xilence silencer/cooler sitting on a sheet of foam on the bottom of the case.

Now I've gone and bought a Cherry G80 mechanical keyboard though. CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK!

There is no quietness with a Coolermaster Quickfire TM with blues either...click click..

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What if she is hot, but a pain in your ____, maybe the priorities are okay