the only reason a mac is better at audio than a PCis coz they are quiet in the studio.
most high end pcs in music production tend to have had a fair amount of noise suppression bits added to them, as they are noisy buggers.
but our studio uses 5 PC's and we would not have a mac around the place, anyway Atari ST's were used before macs....
(most high end pcs in music production tend to have had a fair amount of noise suppression bits added to them, as they are noisy buggers.
but our studio uses 5 PC's and we would not have a mac around the place, anyway Atari ST's were used before macs....
TBL I posted this on,
Thu 27 Jul 2006, 12:59,
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You can make completely silent high end PCs if you care enough though.
slight yoinks!,
Thu 27 Jul 2006, 13:06,
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yep that was more or less my point really...My own I just added a decent PSU, a couple of artic cooling fans and a hard drive accoustic sleeve.. job done, total cost around £90 on top of the PC's price. My mate went overboard, and actually built a soundproof cupboard complete with air extractors out through the wall!!
( TBL I posted this on,
Thu 27 Jul 2006, 13:10,
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Liquid cooling is a good start.I have one of those 120mm Zalman copper coolers but it's still not silent. Virtually silent PSU (though that was £70 :/ ).
The real problem was cooling on my graphics card.. stock cooler wasn't good enough so I ended up putting a noisy one on, thus undoing all my hard work...
However you can get fanless PSUs, cool you cpu/gfx with water and then it's just the hard drives I guess.
Which HD sleves did you use? Did they work well?
(The real problem was cooling on my graphics card.. stock cooler wasn't good enough so I ended up putting a noisy one on, thus undoing all my hard work...
However you can get fanless PSUs, cool you cpu/gfx with water and then it's just the hard drives I guess.
Which HD sleves did you use? Did they work well?
slight yoinks!,
Thu 27 Jul 2006, 13:25,
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