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From: martin@saturn.uucp (Martin J. Schedlbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Quiet power supplies
Message-ID: <1991Apr8.155306.883@saturn.uucp>
Date: 8 Apr 91 15:53:06 GMT
References: <1991Apr8.022627.4861@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: martin@saturn.UUCP (Martin J. Schedlbauer)
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Organization: Martin Schedlbauer, Billerica, MA 01862 (USA)
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In article <1991Apr8.022627.4861@leland.Stanford.EDU> micah@leland.Stanford.EDU (Micah Doyle) writes:
>I'm in the process of buying a PC, and noticed that the (200W or so)
>power supply being offered seemed a bit noisy.  The people at the
>store knew of supposedly quieter power supplies, but hadn't had any
>experience with them.  I was hoping someone here would.  Does anyone

I've been looking at that myself for a while. My machine is very noisy and
if you are trying to concentrate it's really annoying.

However, I've found that it's not so much the power supply as it is the
harddisk. If you take out your harddisk and listen to your computer it's
probably failry quiet.

Look in PC Magazine or other for quiet power supplies. Most work by having
a thermostat that will turn on the fan only when the computer reaches a
certain level of temperature.

Some neweer computers left the fan out completely. Instead of cooling by
removing the hot air, they employ better heat sinking and heat dissipation
through the case itself. The Brick by Ergo is an example.

	...Martin



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