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In article writes:

any tips to reduce the mechanical noise coming from a pc?
I tried out low noise fans but still not enough. Noise is coming from
hard drives too.

Distance is your friend. Too many people try to record withing a short
cable's reach of their computer. Get it into another room, or at least
a quieter case. Every thing you do to reduce noise will reveal another
noise source. You have to keep at it until you're satisfied with the
result. Larger, slower fans are quieter than stock fans, newer disk
drives are usually quieter than older ones, and there are cases that
are more solid and some have resiliant mounts for rotating parts.
Antec makes a fanless power supply (though at 350 watts, it might not
leave much room for powerhouse processors, multiple disk drives, or
gigabytes of memory) and there are several CPU fan alternatives.
Unfortunately, there's no one "best" so you just have to pick one, try
it, and see if the improvement it makes is satisfactory or if you have
to try something else.

It can get expensive, though. This is one of those things (see the
"male chassis mounted mic connector thread" for another example) where
the original manufacturer cuts all the corners he can in order to keep
the selling price down, then leaves the buyer to add in all the things
that the manufacturer didn't.

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