Re:Completely Silent Computer
by johnchristopher on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @03:17PM
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The only time I achieved silence was when I moved the computer case outside the room and used a 2m VGA cable and USB chord extenders. That silence was weird though. No audio feedback at all from the computer, just the clicking of keyboard and the mouse.
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I did exactly that too!
I was tired of the never-ending quest for silence, so I bought 3 50-ft dvi cables and a couple usb-3 cables of the same length and put the PC in the attic.
It worked great, except any hardware issues resulted in a trip to the attic.
Re:Completely Silent Computer
by johnchristopher on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @10:40AM
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Did you leave the machine always on ?
Pretty much. I've never really shut down my main machines when i'm not using them.
I work from home, so i'm on it several hours every workday, combined with the fact that I tend to have multiple things in-progress all the time means it would be a giant pain in the ass to shut it down fully.
Hehe, you get used to it after a while. Sometimes I wonder where the heat is coming from when my PC has some higher load and my hand moves over it. Those are the moments when I remember the days when I couldn't hear the vacuum when the PC was compiling ;-)
Hm, almost a dumb terminal!
Re:Completely Silent Computer
by singularity2001 on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @07:17AM
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Same setup, with sound over hdmi. love it!