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It took me a little longer than I expected to move my motherboard and disks from its previous home in an Antec 2650 case to the new P150, but it was well worth it. The new case is nearly silent, except for a slight (and surprisingly high-pitched) whine. I'm impressed.

I've owned lots of Antec cases; this is by far the quietest. (Not quite the simplest to install hardware in; that honor probably goes to the 2650. It is pretty easy to work on, though.) And, as I said, quiet. This one's currently being shared between the office and the ~~bedroom~~ recording studio; I'll have to get another when I upgrade the office box, which is not only noisy but broken at the moment. I swiped half-a-gig of RAM from it to bring the recording box up to a full gig.

Mood: impressed
Music: the sounds of (almost) silence

For some time, my Mini-ITX system has been plagued by a noisy CPU fan. My original plan had been to replace it with a silent video chipset cooler, but a little experimentation convinced me it wouldn't fit. This afternoon at Central Computer I spotted a CooolerMaster Blue ICE chipset cooler -- it had a fan, but I'd had good luck with their fans before so I bought it (for all of $8).

The next challenge was getting the old heatsink and fan off the CPU. After easing the board out of the case and removing the pushpins, I discovered that this was far easier said than done. Humf. Well, I've been in that situation before. I pushed the pushpins back in and swapped the fans, which is what I should have done in the first place.

The results were pretty impressive -- it's a lot quieter. Not perfectly silent, of course: there are still two motors in there (the other's in the hard drive; the power supply was already fanless, from an earlier mod). But it's now quieter than dantooine, which is the machine I was using for recording before, so it can take its place in the ~~studio~~ bedroom.

Mood: geeky

I knew, when swapping a known-quiet Vantec ION power supply into the

flower_cat's new computer didn't make a noticable difference, that the only major noise source left had to be the CPU fan. But I didn't know how major. I put in a CoolerMaster LED Silent 8025 system fan, and it's now almost inaudible. In fact, if you stand equidistant from both systems, most of the noise you hear is coming from the other machine -- in an Antec Sonata case under a cardboard box.

Problem solved.

Mood: impressed
Music: the sound of silence

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