On Sonntag 14 Dezember 2008, Grant wrote: > >> This system > >> is in the living room and the current hard drive can be hea > > > > Have you considered adding sound insultation to the case? > > That's not a bad idea, but I don't want to keep heat in along with > sound. The only fans are the CPU fan and power supply fan. My video > card blew a capacitor the other day and I think it was heat. > > - Grant
and that is why you have one or two slow moving 12cm or 14 cm fans in your case. Slow = low noise. Then some insulation on the sides, buttom and top and vibration dampers for the harddisks and noise goes down a lot.