Comment quiet alimentation (Score 0) 209
It seems that alimis what generates the most noise, which explains why a laptop alim quiets the system a lot...
but with "standard" hardware, you can use a silentmax alim, and if you don't use horrible little fans on the motherboard and graphic card, the system makes virtually no noise at startup -- I mean no noise; not little noise, no noise at all (you can hear the hard drive and the CPU fan but only after several minutes, when the CPU is hot and you're manipulating big files).
Reading or burning CDs or DVDs is always more noisy, but with this, you get a full-tower with virtually as many drives as you want inside. It is more bulky, but it combines both server (for local network only of course) and workstation.
but with "standard" hardware, you can use a silentmax alim, and if you don't use horrible little fans on the motherboard and graphic card, the system makes virtually no noise at startup -- I mean no noise; not little noise, no noise at all (you can hear the hard drive and the CPU fan but only after several minutes, when the CPU is hot and you're manipulating big files).
Reading or burning CDs or DVDs is always more noisy, but with this, you get a full-tower with virtually as many drives as you want inside. It is more bulky, but it combines both server (for local network only of course) and workstation.
