prebuilt "quiet" computers?

Hi,

A friend is interested in buying a budget PC (just for web surfing,
maybe a bit of limited home movie editing). He's expressed interest in
getting something quiet, though - does anyone know of any (reliable,
naturally!) dealers who can build a machine using things like silent
PSUs, quieter CPU fans and the like?

Otherwise I'll probably just send him to dell / mesh or wherever for
their cheap box of the month and offer to upgrade him to quieter
components myself later if he finds the noise offensive...

Cheers,

Tim.

Tim Wright wrote:
Hi,

A friend is interested in buying a budget PC (just for web surfing,
maybe a bit of limited home movie editing). He's expressed interest in
getting something quiet, though - does anyone know of any (reliable,
naturally!) dealers who can build a machine using things like silent
PSUs, quieter CPU fans and the like?

Otherwise I'll probably just send him to dell / mesh or wherever for
their cheap box of the month and offer to upgrade him to quieter
components myself later if he finds the noise offensive...

Cheers,

Tim.

Gotta say my parent's Dell is actually pretty quiet. A few times I've turned
it off trying to turn it on!

HTH
Steve

"Tim Wright" wrote in message
...
Hi,

A friend is interested in buying a budget PC (just for web surfing,
maybe a bit of limited home movie editing). He's expressed interest in
getting something quiet, though - does anyone know of any (reliable,
naturally!) dealers who can build a machine using things like silent
PSUs, quieter CPU fans and the like?

Not quite sure what you mean by "budget".
Silent PCs don't often come cheap, unless they are relatively low power by
today's standards.

However, take a look at http://www.mini-itx.com/store/
They sell ready built silent system units by Hush and Tranquil

Loz

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 18:25:19 -0000, "Steve"
wrote:

Tim Wright wrote:
Hi,

A friend is interested in buying a budget PC (just for web surfing,
maybe a bit of limited home movie editing). He's expressed interest in
getting something quiet, though - does anyone know of any (reliable,
naturally!) dealers who can build a machine using things like silent
PSUs, quieter CPU fans and the like?

Otherwise I'll probably just send him to dell / mesh or wherever for
their cheap box of the month and offer to upgrade him to quieter
components myself later if he finds the noise offensive...

Cheers,

Tim.

Gotta say my parent's Dell is actually pretty quiet. A few times I've turned
it off trying to turn it on!

[AO|NT]L to that. The Optiplex I use at work is the same. The CPU fan
gets audible when I start pushing it hard, but I can live with it.

Unlike my home Medion 3.6 P IV which sounds like a tonado when its
going some (then again the fan is huge and had a big FOAD section of
drain pipe running in from the case).
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In ,
Tim Wright typed:
Hi,

A friend is interested in buying a budget PC (just for web surfing,
maybe a bit of limited home movie editing). He's expressed interest in
getting something quiet, though - does anyone know of any (reliable,
naturally!) dealers who can build a machine using things like silent
PSUs, quieter CPU fans and the like?

Otherwise I'll probably just send him to dell / mesh or wherever for
their cheap box of the month and offer to upgrade him to quieter
components myself later if he finds the noise offensive...

Cheers,

Tim.

Fujitsu Siemens kit is very quiet - dabs had an amazing offer for a celly
2.8Ghz system the other week for £229+VAT - I bought about 5 of them for an
office job I was doing - You cant hear them.

Jason Russell
Dotcom Computers Ltd

Dotcom Computers wrote:

In ,
Tim Wright typed:
Hi,

A friend is interested in buying a budget PC (just for web surfing,
maybe a bit of limited home movie editing). He's expressed interest in
getting something quiet, though - does anyone know of any (reliable,
naturally!) dealers who can build a machine using things like silent
PSUs, quieter CPU fans and the like?

Otherwise I'll probably just send him to dell / mesh or wherever for
their cheap box of the month and offer to upgrade him to quieter
components myself later if he finds the noise offensive...

Cheers,

Tim.

Fujitsu Siemens kit is very quiet - dabs had an amazing offer for a celly
2.8Ghz system the other week for £229+VAT - I bought about 5 of them for an
office job I was doing - You cant hear them.

Jason Russell
Dotcom Computers Ltd

Yes, anything with the Siemens name is good quality. I work sometimes on
a Fujitsu Siemens Scenic; very quiet.