Chris Aitken wrote:

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Subject: Re: [TLUG]: quiet PC Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 20:39:00 -0500 From: Peter Hiscocks <phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org> Reply-To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org References: <3FD51233.6E2F5C25-BwLjziHGQLusTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org>

I sympathise, many PC's these days are unbearably noisy. I got one that was unacceptably noisy and simply took it back to OTA the next day and asked for a quieter fan. They obliged. That's the easiest and simplest solution.

Thanks, everybody. I was blown away by the volume of feedback I got from this post. I thought I should let you know how I resolved this - such as it is. Honson would not commit to installing an ultra-quiet fan. The clerk told me that "all fans make some noise". I told her that I'm sure that that is true but that I understand that some fans are so quiet that you can't hear them ; ) She said she would have a tech call me - a tech never did call me. So, I took the PC to Stan at Union Computers (Yonge, South of Eg). He was a little more bullish on quiet fans. So, as is my nature, I let him "pour honey down my ear" (is that really an expression, or did I make that up?). So, for 80 bucks cash, I now have a PC that is definitely quiter (but not near-noiseless), and the noise it does make is at least uniform (not the organ grinder effect I had before). So, it's quieter (better fans) and its sound is uniform now, not pulsing and changing (that's because the fans are new). The PCU fan/heatsink packaging was not saved, so the best information Stan could give me was that it is rated for a 1.5 GHz processor (whereas I only have an 800 MHz one). The PSU fan specs are: Dimension: 80X80X25 Air Flow: 32.5CFM Speed: 2500 RPM Noise: 28.3 bBA Voltage: 12 VDC Current: 0.13 A Power: 1.6 W Thanks again, Chris Aitken -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml