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Subject: Re: I wanted AMD also...

Author: Andreas Guettinger

Date: 00:37:14 02/11/04

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On February 10, 2004 at 23:27:56, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On February 10, 2004 at 12:07:03, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>I think sound is overrated.  My dual xeon has three cpu fans, two hard drive bay
>>fans, two power supply fans, and it is not objectionable.  It also has 5 X 36
>>gig 15K U320 SCSI disks, and 3 X 146 10K U320 disks.  The drives are _not_ that
>>noisy.  They are stuck deep into the chassis in a hot-swap 8-way drive bay and I
>>don't notice them.  The machine is not whisper-quiet with all the fans, but the
>>disk drives do not produce any vibration or excessive noise on their own...
>>
>>At least not these (Seagate Cheetahs) in either 10K or 15K types..
>
>I know a guy who lined the inside of his case with shag carpet, and it is very
>quiet. I'm just waiting for his computer to catch on fire and burn his house
>down.

Self is the man. :)
Here the page of a friend:

http://rakka.ch/pc/v2/index.html

regards
Andy



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