Build a Quiet Gaming System

ThinSkin writes "Armed with a newly discovered soundproofing foam, Loyd Case from ExtremeTech set out to build a quiet gaming rig that hits the sweet spot in both performance and silence. After choosing the right components and insulating the PC case, Loyd's silent PC weighed in at a shade under $2500, scored 5206 3DMarks, and is hardly audible from more than a meter away."

you're kidding, right?

[Ritz_Just_Ritz]

Unless you're working on a laptop, how many people work such that their EAR is within 1M of their PC?

Expensive

[Nightspirit]

You can create a realtivly silent gaming PC for under a grand. I built an amd 3400+, 1gig ram, ATI 9800 pro video, and a silent case for not that much money over a year ago (def under a grand), and using MS' game machine analyzer it rates in the top 3% of gaming PCs.

Why do all these "game machine" and "media center" how-to guides build such expensive computers? The day where the average gamer or home computer user spends $2000-2500 on a computer is a decade ago.

Re:you're kidding, right?

[Trejkaz]

Typical mouse and keyboard cords are about 1.8m in length.

Re:What about Liquid Cooling?

[Rob T Firefly]

I don't know why more people don't use it.

Because many less-than-advanced PC builders are still skittish about introducing liquid fluid of the wet persuasion into their PC case.

Everyone.

[Inoshiro]

Every single workstation in the comp sci lab at the University has the monitor on top of the actual computer case. A 1m radius sphere around it would intersect with anyone's head.

When I sit at a desktop at home, my head is between 70 and 90cm from 2 computer towers, both of which are on my desk next to my monitor.

Do you know that a metre is 100cm, or 3 and 1/3rd feet?

I don't know of any people who have their PC cases far away from their monitors, and I don't know of any people who sit more than 1 metre from their monitor (it makes it hard to read the contents!).

Re:Did all of you flunk 3rd grade math?

[damsa]

I know how to do 3rd grade math. In the 4th grade I learned the concept of rounding.