Baoran wrote:For me the most quiet pc that I have is also the oldest pc I have built. The newer the pc, the more fans there is making noise.
That's largely a myth. There exist plenty of video cards, power supplies and CPU heatsinks with dead-slient fans. In fact, I would say, these days there is more awareness of noise, so there are more silent cooling solutions than there used to be 10-15 years ago.
Case fans can also be very silent, and anyways, there is no need for more than 2-3 of them (putting a crazy amount of case fans does no good, sometimes even does harm - this has been verified time and again).
However, old loud hard drives is something that you cannot do anything about, since the noise is pretty much inherent to their operation.
Katmai500 wrote:I had a Gateway Essential Pentium III 500 that used a 92mm fan on the bottom of the PSU that pulled air over the PIII passive heatsink through a plastic shroud, and then out through the power supply. It had no other fans and was pretty quiet. The loudest thing was the IBM Deskstar hard drive. Sometimes I miss the mechanical whir of old hard drives.
Yeah, that pretty much describes my K6-II desktop. It does have an intake fan, a CPU fan and a PSU fan, but they are rather quiet. The hard drive (also a Deskstar) is an order of magnitude louder than everything else in there. I wouldn't even describe it as a mechanical whir; more like a permanent whistle of an engine preparing to take off. 🤣
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