Digital Home Thoughts: The Register's Guide to a Quiet PC

"PCs are becoming noisier. As components have become faster, the heat they generate has increased. Since that heat is traditionally dissipated using a variety of fans inside the case, the number and size of these fans has grown too, to the extend that they have become the major source of noise within a PC. They are not the only source of noise. Hard disks have platters that spin at very high speeds these days, and optical drives like DVD and CD units generate noise too. Badly designed cases have side panels that vibrate.

If you're tired of the racket your PC is making, you have two choices before you. You can either go for a lower performance PC that will probably not provide all the latest features - or go for no compromise PC with all the latest and most powerful processor, graphics card and so on. Of course, the high performance PC will need a number of modifications to control the noise."

In an uncharacteristic move, The Register has published an article that doesn't seem to criticize anyone and instead focuses on providing useful information. Who knew they were capable of such a thing? :lol: If you're looking to quiet your computer, especially a media center machine in your living room, this is a useful article.