How To: Build a really, really, really silent PC Articles / How To Articles Posted by rampy on Mar 26, 2005 - 02:05 AM Oh sure, I let my MaximumPC [1] magazine subscription lapse and they put out this gem: How To: Build a really, really, really silent PC [2] "Is this thing on? We assembled a Pentium M-based rig with a fanless power supply, and ended up with the quietest air-cooled PC we’ve ever heard." It's not a cheap proposition though using a nearly 500 dollar pentium M CPU Ingredients: Intel 2GHz Pentium M 755 ($440, www.newegg.com) AOpen i855GMEm-LFS motherboard ($275, www.newegg.com) Zalman VF700-AlCu VGA cooler ($40, www.zalmnusa.com) Antec TriCool fan ($20, www.antec.com) Antec 350 watt Phantom ($175, www.antec.com) 1GB of Corsair Micro DDR400 ($200, www.corsairmicro.com) Pioneer DVR-A08XLA ($150, www.pioneerelectronics.com) Smart Drive 2002 hard drive enclosure ($55, www.endpcnoise.com) Antec SLK3700-BQE ($100, www.antec.com) Floppy drive ($10, www.newegg.com) Windows XP Professional ($200, www.microsoft.com) Arctic Silver 5 ($8, www.arcticsilver.com) Akasa Paxmate ($20, www.akasa.com.tw) UPDATE kdhamann rightly points out that SilentPC Review [3] is another really good resource for info, and well... reviews of quiet PC and noise dampening components. This article is from Build Your Own PVR   http://www.byopvr.com/ The URL for this story is:   http://www.byopvr.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=314 Links in this article   [1] http://www.maximumPC.com   [2] http://www.maximumpc.com/how_to/reprint_2005-01-28.html   [3] http://www.silentpcreview.com/