Logan Shaw
March 9th 04, 11:26 AM
Glen wrote:
> this post is as much a rant as it is a demand for advise. i'm planning on
> upgrading my PC. my problem is that although i spend a lot of time recording
> on a semi-professional basis, my PC serves me for more than that. i use it
> for programming, gaming, and graphic/web design. my current PC bothers me
> because 1. it is too loud and 2. it is too big, and i want *some* mobility.
You might want to check out http://www.silentpcreview.com/ and
some other web sites about silent computing. If you are willing
to build a PC yourself, you can really get a pretty fast machine
that is still very quiet.
As for big, that's a whole different question. I don't know your
situation, but I would think portability is the main concern,
in which case absolute size isn't the difficulty; it's making
the PC easy to cart around. In which case, maybe the thing
to do is to make or get some kind of case for it, or just get
a rack-mount ATX case to start with, build a computer inside
it, and put it inside a small portable rack (along with other
equipment, maybe). Rack-mount computer cases come in everything
from 1U up to at least 4U, with the smaller ones being cheaper.
Presumably you could apply some of the same techniques for
cooling things quietly that you could apply to standard tower
cases.
Anyway, just some ideas...
- Logan
> this post is as much a rant as it is a demand for advise. i'm planning on
> upgrading my PC. my problem is that although i spend a lot of time recording
> on a semi-professional basis, my PC serves me for more than that. i use it
> for programming, gaming, and graphic/web design. my current PC bothers me
> because 1. it is too loud and 2. it is too big, and i want *some* mobility.
You might want to check out http://www.silentpcreview.com/ and
some other web sites about silent computing. If you are willing
to build a PC yourself, you can really get a pretty fast machine
that is still very quiet.
As for big, that's a whole different question. I don't know your
situation, but I would think portability is the main concern,
in which case absolute size isn't the difficulty; it's making
the PC easy to cart around. In which case, maybe the thing
to do is to make or get some kind of case for it, or just get
a rack-mount ATX case to start with, build a computer inside
it, and put it inside a small portable rack (along with other
equipment, maybe). Rack-mount computer cases come in everything
from 1U up to at least 4U, with the smaller ones being cheaper.
Presumably you could apply some of the same techniques for
cooling things quietly that you could apply to standard tower
cases.
Anyway, just some ideas...
- Logan