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6 Sep 2024 19:22:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Which would you buy?  
From: Darren New
Date: 7 Jan 2009 12:58:59
Message: <4964ed63$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
>>> No, the multiple fans make too much noise.
>>
>> Especially under high load, I'd expect.
> 
> There is no noticable variation in the loudness of the system. It sounds 
> just as loud under no load as it does with 100% CPU and GPU load and all 
> drives thrashing madly.

Running Windows? Go google for "speedfan" and throw it on there. It takes 
some playing to get right, sometimes.

>>> (Not to mention the two blue LEDs illuminate the entire room 
>>> sufficiently to enable photopic vision...)
>>
>> You can't possibly believe this is difficult to solve.
> 
> No. But given the noise problem, I have little incentive to dismantle 
> the case to try to figure out how to disable the fan LEDs without 
> disabling the fans themselves.

Have you ever heard of ... electrical tape?  Blue light is blocked by some 
very tiny bits of matter.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Why is there a chainsaw in DOOM?
   There aren't any trees on Mars.


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