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Originally Posted by roadtonowhere08
Computer nut turned SILENT computer nut. Shhhh.... Curse those fans
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Hah, I used to be the same way. Started with a few extra quiet fans, and then started on a quest to make it as quiet as possible. Bought all the fancy flower heatsinks, quiet fans, replaced the video card fan by hand, quiet zalman psu's, would even crack open the psu and replace the fan when it started getting louder.
It was never good enough. It was quiet allright, but not
silent. So I took all that crap out and sold it to a friend. I then replaced all the fans and added loud as hell delta 80 mm fans. I threw it in my closet, bought a usb 2.0 / firewire hub. Then I got a monitor extension cable, long usb and firewire cables, made my own long speaker extension cables out of heavy gauge wire. It's loud as hell, but I never hear a damn thing. Ahhh, silent bliss. And despite being in a restricted space it runs cooler than it did with all the fancy quiet stuff. Tho, it does have a lot more airflow going to it with the extra fans. The closet does get warmer than the rest of the house, but hey... keeps my clothes toasty. This method was actually cheaper than all that quiet stuff, despite the cost of the hub and cables.
It's all moot at this point anyway, I spend so much time on the computer at work, I seldom even use my computer anymore as the last thing I want to do when I get home is get on another computer. But oh well, I used to be a gamer / computer geek so I still can geek out every now and then. It's kind of funny, my large L desk used to be so computer focused. At one time having 2 21 inch monitors setting on it. 42 inches of desktop space woo hoo. Had 3 computers running, gaming machine, server / firewall, and my storage box with raid. Now I've backed that off, run only 1 computer w/ 1 20 inch LCD.... only one keyboard on my desk. And now the other half of the desk is audio focused. CD player, amps, headphone rack, a broken turn table and jewel cases stacked up that I need to put back on the WALL O CDS (tm). Head-fi took over my computer desk!
Though I do want to get a storage box back up and try and rip my cd collection. I have about 300 cds worth now, but at one point I'd like to rip my ~900 cds to lossless and run a complete optical to DAC setup.
What, this is a thread about other hobbies, and I've managed to turn this post back into an audio related hobby. DAMN YOU HEAD-FI, DAMN YOUUUUU!!!!!