Help me quieten my system.

[BoomAM]

Hi,
After several hundred quid, a lot of trips to stoke and back and 3 amps that havnt fixed my DVD sound sync problem; I decided to give up and think about using the same money to make my main PC as quiet as possible, with a sound card upgrade to pipe correctly synced sound to my existing amp.

Now, heres my system as of today:
* Intel Core2Quad Q6600 G0 Stepping.
* Abit IP35-Pro.
* 4Gb GeIL Value PC6400 Cas5 (4x1Gb)
* Asus X1650 256Mb Passive.
* Connect 3D X800XL 256Mb.
* 500Gb Samsung SATA2
* 2x 250Gb Samsung SATA2
* 250Gb Hitachi SATA2.
* Sony 20x DVDRW
* Samsung 20x External USB DVDRW.
* 2x Dell 2407WFP 24” TFTs.
* Corsair HX-620W PSU.
* Apple Pro USB Keyboard.
* Microsoft Intellimouse Optical USB
* Antec P182.
* Scythe 1200rpm 120mm Fans.
* Artic Cooling Accelero X2 on X800XL.
* Scythe Ninja Rev.B.

So, as you can see, its in a case thats been designed to be quiet, with two video cards that are passivly cooled, with case fans that are supposidly quiet.
But it still doesnt have make a racket at times. lol.
Its not increadably loud, but it is noticable when im watching DVDs at night.

The only think i can think of that'll make a difference to start off with is reducing the number of HDDs in the system. Of which i could wack them in a NAS and have that in another room.

Thoughts?

Thanks in advance all. .

 

[BoomAM]

Are 2 DVD drives nescassary?

Yes.
Ones an external USB so thats moot anyway.

Definately try cutting down hard drives and see if you really need 2 graphics cards!

Again, yes. I have 3 displays.

have you used the acoutic tools on the hd's to run quieter ?

I havnt no. But the Samsungs i have are ment to be quiet anyway. Not sure on the others.

I'd like to wack all the drives bar one, into a NAS, but a NAS unit with 4 HDD slots on it are either really rare, or really expensive, and often both. .
lol.

 

[BoomAM]

Nope.
As Disk 0 has the OS, Disk 1 has the swap, and Disk 2 has the temp files.
If i disconnect any of those the system wont boot.
That'll be something i'd reconfigure though if i got a NAS.

I can decide wether to get a IcyBox NAS enclosure and 2x 500Gb HDDs, or a 'pre-made' 1Tb NAS.

Suggestions?