On Sat January 17 2004 21:4821pm, Scott Chilcote wrote: > My job has me working within a six feet of a dual Xeon server. It > has at least five noisy fans, and sounds like a vacuum cleaner.
I've seen fans that produce less noise than usual. They are more expensive than the regular fans. IIRC they aer "ball-bearing fans". I read and have tested that 120mm fans are much quieter than the regular 80mm fans. On a magazine (Maximum PC, IIRC) I read an article about silencing noisy PCs. They recommended filtering the air intake and air exhaust with thin A/C filter material. Those filters, aside from trapping dust, help reduce the decibels. And padding the computer case with heat-resistant material, also helps quieting the noise. Salut, Sinner -- http://www.ibiblio.org/sinner/ Linux User # 89976 Testing Mandrake 9.2 - Linux Machine # 38068 -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
