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Old 09-11-09   #1 (permalink)
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Hey,

i got some new hardware in my sig rig, so the unused parts are going to be in a silent pc, so i can download etc at night.

I was thinking about buying an AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ 2.90 GHz and a Seagate SV35.5 Series 250 GB and get them on my old rig.
The old parts are:
Asrock alive dual esata II
HKC 580 watt psu, low speed fan..
Scythe mugen without fans on the cpu, wonder if that will work?
some kingston 667mhz ram
my old pov 9600gt
and it all in an old case, with an old dvd drive etc...

what do you guys think? is this a good idea? and is it worth investing E100?

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The 9600GT will be the loudest component...
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It depends how much money you want to invest into having it really silent. For example you could also get a low-end passivly cooled videocard. And also, I think a Noctua NH-U12P works better to cool passivly. And last but not least you could also get a low wattage (quality) fanless PSU.

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BTW... go for an inaudible PC. Silent PCs cost much more and/or perform worse for functionally the same.
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my mouse is now the loudest part of my computer...lol
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get an accelero cooler and an antec 140mm fan with variable speed control. It'll cool the hell out of the thing while being completely silent and eliminating all sound.

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The 9600GT will be the loudest component...
hmm, i could turn the fan speed down some more, the 9600gt is kinda cold, so with fan speed on 25 its still not overheating.

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It depends how much money you want to invest into having it really silent. For example you could also get a low-end passivly cooled videocard. And also, I think a Noctua NH-U12P works better to cool passivly. And last but not least you could also get a low wattage (quality) fanless PSU.
well, i wont buy more than a cpu and a hdd, somewhere around E100 is my max, cause my main rig is expensive enoug...

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BTW... go for an inaudible PC. Silent PCs cost much more and/or perform worse for functionally the same.
ye, thats what i actualy mean, it doesnt have to be total silent, it still make some noise, but i dont want to have bad sleep because of my pc...

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dynamat
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fan controller
passive coolers where need be
rubber o-rings

my mouse is now the loudest part of my computer...lol
lol, ill try some of these parts, i guess it'll keep the noise down

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get an accelero cooler and an antec 140mm fan with variable speed control. It'll cool the hell out of the thing while being completely silent and eliminating all sound.
nah, that'll cost to much, i dont want to spend more money on that rig.

actualy my only questions are, will the scythe mugen (1) keep that 2.9ghz dual cool without a fan?
and will that hdd be "silent" and do its job?
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Welcome to ocn. "Your computer will love you, your wallet will hate you, and your family will miss you."


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Evga GTX275 1792MB
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Onboard		 Power Supply
Corsair HX850W		 Case
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If you don't plan on folding the take that 9600 out. Well, leave it in for the OS and driver installation, then enable remote desktop, set your BIOS to "Halt on no errors", and take it out. Then you can just use remote desktop from your main rig to control it and start your downloads before going to bed.

Of course, if you want to actually sit at it and do stuff that's a different story.

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If you don't plan on folding the take that 9600 out. Well, leave it in for the OS and driver installation, then enable remote desktop, set your BIOS to "Halt on no errors", and take it out. Then you can just use remote desktop from your main rig to control it and start your downloads before going to bed.

Of course, if you want to actually sit at it and do stuff that's a different story.
ye, i was thinking about that option but i wanna do some things on it, and let my little bro play some browser games if he wants... so the 9600gt will be in there. Actualy its making less noise than i thought it would be, just put the fan down to 25% and you can barely hear it.

Anyways, i ordered the cpu and the hdd, so they will be here soon...

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Evga GTX275 1792MB
Hard Drive
571GB total		 Sound Card
Onboard		 Power Supply
Corsair HX850W		 Case
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