January 26, 2011 | Computer | No Comments
The debut of Google's Nexus One "superphone" generated a lot of pre-launch hype with many heralding it as an "iPhone killer" before even seeing it. Fast forward to today. The phone is out and the revi...
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January 26, 2011 | Computer | No Comments
Is it just me, or does this year's deified technology seem to have a serious drug problem? The latest heavily hyped gadget to get on the juice is the long-discussed (but thus far unconfirmed) A...
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January 26, 2011 | Computer | No Comments
Google has been iterating Android at an astounding pace since it was first introduced in the fall of 2008. Barely a few months have passed in between releases, and now much of the feature set has ...
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January 26, 2011 | Computer | No Comments
Dedicated server is a type website hosting, which designed specially for developed website that needs full supports. Differ with the shared hosting where a hosting used for number of clients, dedic...
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January 26, 2011 | Computer | No Comments
AMD's HD 5970 consists of two HD 5870 GPUs shoved under a single hood, but for one reason or another (heat, power consumption, etc), the memory and GPU cores come underclocked from their standalone ...
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January 26, 2011 | Computer | No Comments
Samsung this morning introduced the Korean market to its AMOLED Beam (SPH-W9600), the company's second projector phone and successor to the Haptic Beam (SPH-W7900). The AMOLED beam comes equipped w...
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January 26, 2011 | Computer | No Comments
EA recently released its Q3 fiscal statement, and it’s a magnitude seven doozy. Not to be a downer, though, but first on the release schedule is The Waiting Game, as most of these titles won’t be ...
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January 26, 2011 | Computer | No Comments
AMD appears focused on reducing the power consumption of its Phenon II line and will do so starting with a new version of the Phenom II X4 955. The new part -- HDX955WFK4DGM -- comes rated at 95W, a s...
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January 26, 2011 | Computer | No Comments
Come back, Need For Speed, all is forgiven. I know we cast you and your shiny wheels out into the wilderness because you lost the plot. But we love you again... Forgive us for being a bit ...
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January 26, 2011 | Computer | No Comments
After losing upwards of 35 key employees within a month, one might be tempted to declare Infinity Ward a shell of its former self. Honestly, though, in all likelihood, a shell of Infinity Ward still...
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Anyone can build a gaming PC. Seriously, it’s easy. Minus a few technological bits of know-how here and there, there’s really nothing that tough about buying the fastest components you can afford and slapping them in whatever chassis you happen to have on hand. Done, right?
The backbone of my proposed gaming PC is fairly standard: a Core i7 CPU paired with an Nvidia GTX 480 videocard. That is more than enough to frag my friends in any title I toss at it, and more to the point, if you already own a PC you want to hush, these are parts that a Maximum PC reader could very well have. Of course, you don’t need these exact components—though the total cost of my silenced rig exceeds $2,000, the cost for the sound-damping materials (including case) is less than $300, and you can easily apply those materials to the PC you already have.
There’s no shortage of devices that promise awesome performance at an ultra-low acoustic profile. My plan was to stick as many quiet-themed products in my PC as possible—including a silent CPU cooler, an aftermarket cooler for my videocard, quieter fans, and as much acoustic padding as I had room to mount into the case.
But that’s not all. For comparison’s sake, I also decided to build a rig inside of Fractal Design’s R3 chassis—a $120 case that arrives on your doorstep pre-configured for silence . Besting this quiet beast was my secondary goal.
Thermaltake
Jing With two 12cm fans to push air over the heat fins, it’s a much quieter cooler than the stock Intel model that came with our CPU.
Zalman VF300F
This aftermarket GPU cooler replaces the hot-
and-noisy stock cooler of our EVGA GeForce GTX 480 with something larger and quieter.
Fan Controller
The inside of our case looked a lot cleaner before we inserted the PCB for our fan controller (and its tangle of fan cables and temperature probes).
Small Extras
Rubber mounting pegs rather than screws cut down on fan-vibration noise.
Case Silverstone PS05 $50
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