>> What solutions have people explored to quiet down a computer
>> system? (actual
>> experience will be preferred over wild speculations).
I ran a totally noiseless Xterm for about a 18 months:
A P5/133 with the CPU fan running on 7V (12V - 5V = 7V)
which made it rotate fast enough to move air, slow enough
to not make a din.
A wirewound potentiometer in series with the PSU fan,
again making the fan rotate below the noise threshold.
No cover on the cabinet.
A M-Systems Flash based Disk-On-Chip device (www.m-sys.com
driver in src/sys/contrib/dev/fla) Today I would use
compact flash or Smartmedia I think.
I changed the flash disk for PXE diskless boot later on.
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