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bobkoure · 06-09-2004, 08:36 AM

So buy one. Enjoy the quiet.
FWIW, trying to build a silent PC is a worse addiction than water cooling. I'm trying to stick with "quieter than the ambient noise level is good enough", which means I only get annoyed about PC noise late at night.
Remember that there are other noise sources in your PC (other fans, hard drives, mostly). It might be worth visiting the Silent PC Review forums. Don't expect the same rigor you get here, but folks there do have silence as a goal.
IMHO, for many folks here, cooling is the goal, and "less noise than air cooling" is an incidental byproduct. Those who don't understand (yet) that engineering is a matter of tradeoffs between goals and that their particular set of goals are not the only ones possible are going to consider your tradeoffs, well, wrong. The folks who know this and are simply not interested in silence will, knowing what the reserator is, probably skip this thread.

06-09-2004, 08:36 AM	#44
bobkoure Cooling Savant Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: USA - Boston area Posts: 798	So buy one. Enjoy the quiet. FWIW, trying to build a silent PC is a worse addiction than water cooling. I'm trying to stick with "quieter than the ambient noise level is good enough", which means I only get annoyed about PC noise late at night. Remember that there are other noise sources in your PC (other fans, hard drives, mostly). It might be worth visiting the Silent PC Review forums. Don't expect the same rigor you get here, but folks there do have silence as a goal. IMHO, for many folks here, cooling is the goal, and "less noise than air cooling" is an incidental byproduct. Those who don't understand (yet) that engineering is a matter of tradeoffs between goals and that their particular set of goals are not the only ones possible are going to consider your tradeoffs, well, wrong. The folks who know this and are simply not interested in silence will, knowing what the reserator is, probably skip this thread.