Gotcha,
I bought an external jobby with phantom power for my mics, midi and all that jazz. Pretty good really, still can't get it to sound professional mind.

Hoping to go to a proper studio over the summer and record.
( Anthropos Was making beer on, Sun 31 May 2009, 21:43, archived)

I've got a vague plan to do live shows with the guitar synth
so I might just get a laptop and a USB sound module

then wait for it to crash and go SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE through a P.A.
( Gilgamesh gazed in wonder as Frampton came alive, Sun 31 May 2009, 21:46, archived)

get yourself a massive heatsink

( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 31 May 2009, 21:47, archived)

I've got one
but I didn't want to fit it, it sounds like a jet engine

what's good for silent-ish cooling?
( Gilgamesh gazed in wonder as Frampton came alive, Sun 31 May 2009, 21:49, archived)

buckets of water

( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sun 31 May 2009, 21:52, archived)

Just throw the water on, make sure the mains is on too.
It makes the cooling work better.

Don't know about cooling i'm afraid, my pc has a fecking massive noisy fan in it which makes it sound like a hoover when it is doing stuff.
( Anthropos Was making beer on, Sun 31 May 2009, 21:55, archived)

I've got a Scythe Ninja 2 in this machine,
you can run it without a fan on it if your CPU is relatively low power. I've also fitted an OCZ Vendetta II before, that's quite good. I'm just about to take delivery of an Akasa AK 920-2, which is getting good reviews despite being fairly cheap, so I'll let you know how that turns out.

What processor have you got?
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 31 May 2009, 21:53, archived)

Core Duo something or other, dunno, it's written on the box
I really need SILENT cooling for it for home recording purposes
( Gilgamesh gazed in wonder as Frampton came alive, Sun 31 May 2009, 21:55, archived)

A Scythe Ninja ought to be able to cope with a Core 2 Duo,
you can usually set the BIOS up to run the fan at variable speed as well. I'm assuming the PC case has fans in it as well?
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 31 May 2009, 21:58, archived)

yup, switched off that Q-fan crapola, case is old and stuffed with hard drives so that needs replacing too
I'll go and shovel some more money into Micro Direct next week
( Gilgamesh gazed in wonder as Frampton came alive, Sun 31 May 2009, 22:00, archived)

You'll want a case that'll take 120mm fans all round,
the bigger the fan, the slower it needs to spin, so 120mm is now the quiet computing standard. You can get gaming cases with 240mm fans in the side, but that's just daft.

Scythe and Noctua do the best fans, you're looking at £12-14 each.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 31 May 2009, 22:03, archived)

trane chillers

( mongychops, Sun 31 May 2009, 21:54, archived)