Topic: Quiet DAW Components

[BobW]

I'm reconfiguring a PC to be a stand-alone DAW.
It's an ATX case and I want to find a stone-silent fan and power supply.
Most of the resources on the 'Net seem to be vendors, no independent opinions.

Does anyone have a solid recommendation or know of a good place to get info ?

[rerem]

Silent PC review.com is entirely dedicated to silent pc's and there are some very creative ideas. Artic Cooling's TC fans are super quiet and low price,find at New Egg. Coolmax makes a PSU with a huge 140mm fan that can be set to under 1000 rpm-very quiet. The combination of the Athlon 64 3000 Winchester core cpu and ECS new N-Force 4 mobo-which has a special low-noise pci slot for a soundcard,but needs the chipset fan to be replaced with a passive Zalman heatsink-is ideal for low noise. An Artic Cooling or Zalman CPU heatsink with a fan as slow as 1000 rpm is a good choice. For a DAW you need HDD capacity and the silent PC hardcore used to like Seagate Barracudas but now the Samsung Spinpoint SATA HDDs are the quiet king-see the silentpc forum for HDD mounting tips,such as "Coolpacks" or elastic suspension. Artic Cooling also makes a Case now with some nice "Silent" features,it includes a Seasonic PSU. Antec Sonnata cases are also popular

[BobW]

Thanks !  alot of great suggestions     +T