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Originally posted by Mjk
My own machine sounds like a vacuum cleaner and I'm unable to think any way to reduce the noise (water-cooling doesn't attract me).
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Mjk, it seems like only recently there has been quite a bit of interest in general in making more quiet systems, and you can find CPU fans, case fans, and hard drives that are now designed to be quiet. I hang out at amdzone.com's BBS quite a bit and several people there have discussed how which hard drives, for example, have the quiet-type fluid bearings.
Of course, replacing your hard drive for a quieter one may be a bit much, but next time you're looking at replacing it, it's something to consider. But you should be able to replace all your fans pretty cheap.
Personally, though, I like a noisy box. My Linux server has a total of three SCSI drives and nine cooling fans and it sounds like a jet engine taking off.
