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--- In IBM_T2X_LCD@yahoogroups.com, "fluppeteer" <yahoo@...> wrote:
\n>
\n> --- In IBM_T2X_LCD@yahoogroups.com, "educationk12" <educationk12@>
\n> wrote:
\n>
\n> To make the computer quiet, try water cooling. It's not very
\n> expensive (compared with large solid state drives); I have a
\n> reserator (no fans) cooling my CPUs and one GPU - if I could
\n> cool the other GPU and the chipset as well, I'd have almost
\n> no noise issues. Koolance supposedly do good stuff as well,
\n> including better GPU coolers than Zalman's water blocks. I'm
\n> vaguely hoping to get a water cooled 8800 at some point.
\n>
\n> Failing that, a modern case with big fans ought to run fairly
\n> quiet (I'm using an old SuperMicro case because I can't be
\n> bothered to move). Add some acoustic foam inside. Mine's in
\n> a wooden outer case, also lined with foam (with plenty of
\n> air holes), although the Reserator is outside it. All this
\n> has the advantage that the computer weighs a ton and is pretty
\n> unstealable even if someone works out how to get the reserator
\n> out of it (it won't come out of the box unless the reserator is
\n> detached). I'm relying on having a 3' tall cylinder full of water
\n> in case there's a fire and I need to get it out in a hurry...
\n>
\n> To keep the hard drives quiet, try getting some quiet mountings
\n> (you can get rubber pads) - FWIW, I get my stuff from quietpc.com
\n> - which will stop the hard drive noise being transferred to the
\n> case. If you stop the case vibrating (again, with the acoustic
\n> foam - although I've got bonus bitumen on mine to weight it down)
\n> that'll help too. 2.5" drives are quieter than 3.5" ones, at a
\n> cost. Solid state will get you silence (if you can shift the
\n> heat), but if all you need is quieter than the T221s then this
\n> should be far easier. If you really want to throw money at the
\n> problem, Zalman make an entirely passively-cooled case, with heat
\n> pipes to all the major components.
\n>
\n> To keep the T221s quiet, I'd suggest keeping the room cool.
\n> Put the computer in another room, and run video cables inside
\n> (Matrox's Extio stuff might be useful - I'd like to know whether
\n> it works), or use an external water cooler and put *that* in
\n> another room.
\n>
\n> I've not touched the innards of my DG5; I can't afford to
\n> break it. ISTR you can get "fake fans" so that the sensors
\n> think a fan is spinning; if the fans aren't already temperature
\n> sensitive then you can certainly get devices which add that
\n> capability. Keep a bit of cool air huffing around and hook up
\n> anything big and metal to a heat pipe or several water cooler
\n> blocks) and I'd have thought you could solve the cooling
\n> problems, though. Please don't drench your T221s in the process,
\n> especially on my say so. :-)
\n>
\n> --
\n> Fluppeteer
\n>