On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 20:30 +0200, John Anderson wrote: > I just bought an Antec P180B case. Very nicely put together. Much > quieter than before, although some fan noise still escapes from the top > and back vents. I covered the top vent with the breakout box from the > EWS88MT. That works quite well. > > It's big, and heavy. Not the kind of thing you want to be taking to a > gig. I can still hear the hard drives when they're working, but just > barely. The noisiest component in there was the chipset fan, which I've > unplugged - motherboard temp is sitting at 34 C so it's a cool case as > well. Now it's the CPU fan, the servers-in-progress in the room next > door, the Alesis monitor amp which does the 50Hz Tango, and the ringing > in my ears. Hmm. Maybe some good earplugs will fix that :-| > > My keyboard sounds more clackety than before as well. Which is good, I > guess. > > I still think the fanless Zalman TNN cases are the ultimate (from the > website Note : TNN500A's noise level is below 20dB and cannot be > measured. The anechoic room used by ZALMAN has an ambient noise level of > 20dB. ). But waaaay expensive. Yup. The latest batch of machines I built for CCRMA live in those cases. A beauty... it is great to be near a cluster of them and hear nothing. -- Fernando
