Help on custom built PC for a media center/DVR project

Discussion in 'PC Hardware, Software and Displays' started by silhouette, Jan 19, 2004.

  1. Dio

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    www.quietpc.com
    Lots of handy gear. When they say it's quiet they mean it. An hour of surgery and it's astonishing how quiet you can make a PC.

    Their acoustic shielding material is godlike - a strip of that on the main reflection paths kills noise almost completely - but awfully expensive (more than the average case). I'm picking up some of the Coolermaster shielding this weekend for 1/3 the price, I'll report back how that compares.
     
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    One other thing I remembered overnight: small cases are much harder to get very quiet than large ones. There isn't the space to pack in the insulation or use low-noise components (hard drive noise bays, large CPU heatsinks, quiet power supplies etc.)

    Even MicroATX can be limiting in this respect (if it uses a small power supply, for example).
     
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    The Coolermaster stuff turns out to be of reasonable efficiency, but you get a bit less than 1/2 as much as the quietpc stuff, so actually the price works out pretty similar.
     
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    Don't get the M-Audio, it doesn't have a proper line-in so it won't work with the All-In-Wonder cards.
     
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    Just bumped on to this. Would be perfect for a multimedia box imo.

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    ( Dign-3E case )
     
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    I already posted the Aphanix products. Those are the exact same rebadged cases.
     
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    NVIDIA's SoundStorm pretty much rules the HTPC market when hooked up to a good DD-capable receiver over spdif (no DAC involved).
     
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