https://www.elearningworld.org/environment/ For the online learning world Mon, 16 Aug 2021 19:13:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.elearningworld.org/environment/#comment-1390 Mon, 16 Aug 2021 19:13:36 +0000 https://www.elearningworld.org/?p=13411#comment-1390 Thanks Stuart :). Ah, I’ve added lighting too, a strip and a fan light. The graphics card has a light as well, but that can be configured to show the temperature of the GPU in a traffic light way, so useful when playing games. And… forgot to mention that the graphics card also has silent’ish fans that can be configured not to be in operation when the GPU is below a certain temp, so great and not so noticable during games, when I’m listening with headphones anyway.

]]> https://www.elearningworld.org/environment/#comment-1389 Sun, 15 Aug 2021 23:55:14 +0000 https://www.elearningworld.org/?p=13411#comment-1389 Great post – and fascinating project.
I built a monster ATX box 10 years ago, totally clear acrylic, with all the fan lights (and UV stick!) etc. even the SATA cables were UV reactive.
It looked amazing.
It was great, but definitely noisey.
So after about 5 years I went the “other direction” towards a silent box.
This was really so podcasting and video-conference background noise was reduced.
So I got the silent fan (which was almost silent I have to say), replaced all the glitzy fans with ‘silent’ fans (which again were surprisingly quiet – could hardly hear them unless you put your ears net to them). SSD’s replaced any rotational drives.
Also went to the level of adding rubber mounts for most case screws etc., and a silent CPU cooling fan.
I also stopped short of water cooling … it ‘does my head in’ thinking about water flowing around my computer and data, lol.
So, I didn’t end up with a silent box, but it was almost there, probably 5% of the noise previously.
So quiet that I definitely didn’t notice the noise above any ambient or local road noise.
Fun project, with definite benefits.

]]>