Actually, I use my stupid noisey refrigerator to mask the sound of my htpc. My entertainment center is on the opposite side of the wall from the kitchen so I just got some longer cords and ran it around the corner. So now it just sits behind a cabinet humming away happily to itself. (Beside the fridge that shakes the floor and dims the lights when it comes on. I can't wait to stop renting..)
You can't get much more unobtrusive than not being able to see it at all... -s .------[ Matthew Caron wrote (Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:47:07AM -0500) ]------ | | >something that will blend in with my other home theater gear. Anyone | >have any unique solutions to keeping it quiet and cool? | | - Overspec everything, especially CPU fans | - I buy all my power supplies and cooling stuff from | pcpowerandcooling.com. Their Ultra-Quiet line of PSU's really are that | quiet. Same with the Silencer Fans. | - Buy hard disks with Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) technology. Just about | everything from Seagate and Maxtor has this nowadays. | | I have a box with a 550W PSU (not PCPower, someone else. I had it | already, not worth throwing away because it was quiet), 5 hard disks (1 | seagate, 4 maxtor), Dual Athlons w/ PC Power and Cooling CPU coolers, | and 4 PC Power and Cooling Silencer 80mm case fans. | | My refrigerator is louder, and really all you can hear is the fan noise, | and that is white noise, so it's actually relaxing. It's about a meter | from my bed and doesn't bother me at all. CPU temp is a stable 40C. | -- | Windows: not only do you pay the licensing fees, but | you get to buy thousands of dollars of firewalls to | protect sections of the network from each other, so | that a virus/worm will only take out a few computers. | And this is a superior Operating System? | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | PGP Key: http://www.mattcaron.net/pgp_key.txt | ~~ Matt Caron ~~ | | | | ------------------------------------------------------- | This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. | Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it | help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help | YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ | _______________________________________________ | Freevo-users mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users | `------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
