spec me totally silent pc please

This would be your best bet, and well under budget...

CA-007-SK FSP Sparkle FSP300-60GNF Zen Noiseless 300W ATX2.0 PSU (CA-007-SK)
£64.95 £64.95
CA-027-AN Antec SLK3000B Midi Tower Case - No PSU (CA-027-AN)
£27.50 £27.50
MB-119-AS Asus A8N-VM CSM Micro ATX (Socket 939) PCI Express Motherboard (MB-119-AS)
£54.95 £54.95
MY-004-OK OcUK Value 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 184pin DDR Memory Dual Channel Kit (MY-004-OK)
£44.95 £44.95
HD-018-SA Samsung SpinPoint P SP2504C 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-018-SA)
£61.95 £61.95
CD-024-NE NEC ND4550 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-024-NE)
£25.50 £25.50
HS-018-TR ThermalRight XP-90 (Socket 754/939/478) Heatsink (HS-018-TR)
£19.95 £19.95
Subtotal £299.75
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £9.95
VAT £54.20
Total £363.90

For the CPU fan, try and find yourseld a 90mm AcoustiFan DustProof. They are excellent .
 
MB-042-GI Gigabyte K8N51GMF-9 nForce 6100 Micro ATX (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-042-GI)
£44.95 £44.95
CP-130-AM AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 90nm (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-130-AM)
£89.95 £89.95
MY-004-OK OcUK Value 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 184pin DDR Memory Dual Channel Kit (MY-004-OK)
£44.95 £44.95
HD-018-SA Samsung SpinPoint P SP2504C 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-018-SA)
£61.95 £61.95
CD-024-NE NEC ND4550 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-024-NE)
£25.50 £25.50
CA-000-AR Arctic Cooling T1 Silentium Silent Midi Tower Case - 450W Seasonic Silent PSU (CA-000-AR)
£45.95 £45.95
HS-023-TR ThermalRight SI-120 (Socket 754/939/478) Heatsink (HS-023-TR)
£26.95 £26.95
GX-060-LT Leadtek GeForce 6200 Turbo Cache 256MB DDR TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-060-LT)
£29.95 £29.95
Subtotal £370.15
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £10.95
VAT £66.70
Total £447.80


hows that?
 
I'v only amd experience, if you switch to intel go for a passive heatsink mobo. Just add the different hard drive into your spec if you need it.
 
MB-042-GI Gigabyte K8N51GMF-9 nForce 6100 Micro ATX (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-042-GI)
£44.95 £44.95
CP-130-AM AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 90nm (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-130-AM)
£89.95 £89.95
MY-004-OK OcUK Value 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 184pin DDR Memory Dual Channel Kit (MY-004-OK)
£44.95 £44.95
HD-018-SA Samsung SpinPoint P SP2504C 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-018-SA)
£61.95 £61.95
CD-024-NE NEC ND4550 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-024-NE)
£25.50 £25.50
CA-000-AR Arctic Cooling T1 Silentium Silent Midi Tower Case - 450W Seasonic Silent PSU (CA-000-AR)
£45.95 £45.95
HS-023-TR ThermalRight SI-120 (Socket 754/939/478) Heatsink (HS-023-TR)
£26.95 £26.95
GX-060-LT Leadtek GeForce 6200 Turbo Cache 256MB DDR TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-060-LT)
£29.95 £29.95
Subtotal £370.15
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £10.95
VAT £66.70
Total £447.80


hows that?
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Scrap the graphics card, the motherboard has built in graphics. Forget about the Arctic Cooling case too, and go with a fanless power supply and a case with no PSU as standard.
 
nikebee said:
MB-042-GI Gigabyte K8N51GMF-9 nForce 6100 Micro ATX (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-042-GI)
£44.95 £44.95
CP-130-AM AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 90nm (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-130-AM)
£89.95 £89.95
MY-004-OK OcUK Value 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 184pin DDR Memory Dual Channel Kit (MY-004-OK)
£44.95 £44.95
HD-018-SA Samsung SpinPoint P SP2504C 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-018-SA)
£61.95 £61.95
CD-024-NE NEC ND4550 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-024-NE)
£25.50 £25.50
CA-000-AR Arctic Cooling T1 Silentium Silent Midi Tower Case - 450W Seasonic Silent PSU (CA-000-AR)
£45.95 £45.95
HS-023-TR ThermalRight SI-120 (Socket 754/939/478) Heatsink (HS-023-TR)
£26.95 £26.95
GX-060-LT Leadtek GeForce 6200 Turbo Cache 256MB DDR TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-060-LT)
£29.95 £29.95
Subtotal £370.15
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £10.95
VAT £66.70
Total £447.80


hows that?
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this looks good... cheap and will do the job.

i may just stick a sempron in, 250gb hdd spot on...

copy and paste into notepad :)
 
can i second mrochester - there isn't much point in the gfx card as the motherboard has a 6200TC based gfx onboard!

If you are going to use a sepmpron you'll need a socket 754 board
 
go mini-itx totally passive motherboard and a laptop style silent power supply, the only noise you'll have left then is the hard disk, so you could go compact flash for boot and then run applications over the Lan for total silence.
 
im after the same thing but id be using it to produce a bit of music, would this need a powerful psu? ive no need for graphics and ive already got a opty 146 and 1gb of ballistix ram so just need spec'd on the rest, must have 160gb hd or bigger but needs to be as cheap as possible


(sorry for slightly hijacking the thread!)
 
marc mercer said:
can i second mrochester - there isn't much point in the gfx card as the motherboard has a 6200TC based gfx onboard!

If you are going to use a sepmpron you'll need a socket 754 board
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didn't realise it had onboard gfx at 6200 levels, sorry about that
and not true about the Sempron's you can get 939 ones now :)
 
Hi there,

For what you are doing I suggest you spend the money on a truely silent PC, IE the only thing moving would be the hard disk spinning.

You can get a Fanless Motherboard with inbuild CPU (Fanless)...Thats Mini-ITX
You can have a fanless Laptop PSU powering that (with an adapter)
You could have a 120GB Laptop Hard Drive 2.5" (Very Very Quiet, practically inaudible)
OnBoard Graphics.
Case
1GB RAM (1 Stick)

That would only be able to run a few apps, but will be extremly quiet as the only thing moving would be the hard drive which is a 2.5" Laptop Hard Drive which are extremly quiet....2.6dB on idle (Compared to a 18dB 120mm Amber Fan).

That would be a truely silent PC, but it wouldn't be very powerful.

Think about it.

Thanks.
 
I think there are 2 ways to go for a completely silent pc. Either a Via C3 or Pentium M.

Here's the specs of a couple i have:

Via epia 533mhz
256mb pc133
40gb laptop hard disk
mITX case with passive psu

Pentium M 1.7ghz
Aopen socket 479 motherboard
512mb pc2700
Zalman cpu cooler (with fan disconnected)
200gb hdd
antec phantom 350w psu

I use the via system as a router/download pc and the only moving part is the hard disk. It is very slow to do stuff on though and i'm not sure if it'll be powerful enough to play a dvd but there are much faster ones around that are also cooled passively. In total the whole system was around £250 but for £300 you could get one that will cope with dvd's and maybe divx videos.

The pentium m system generates a lot more heat than the via system. I've slowed the cpu to 600mhz (speeding up to 1.7ghz if under load) and the cpu temp hovers around 45-50C. It's in a midi tower case with the side off and run the power supply outside the case as it gets too hot inside even with the side of the case off. I may have to put in a low speed fan over the summer but i'll wait and see. I've got windows media centre installed on it and copes with tv recording and playback fine. With current prices it'll cost somewhere between £400-500.
 
I think there are 2 ways to go for a completely silent pc. Either a Via C3 or Pentium M.
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Don't forget any AMD64 system too. I have an X2 3800+, X800XL, nForce4 motherboard, 1 gig RAM cooled by a single 120mm Nexus fan running at 5volts (around 420rpm). Even at full load this is all the cooling that is needed. If you build your system carefully, you can easily achieve silence with high end(ish) components.
 
looks like project "sleep while download" will be knocked to the wind for a bit...

looks likely i need a new motherboard for my tamed "beast"... i.e. huge pile of trash
 
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