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The Noiseless PC

Drastic measures: PC in an oil bath

Published in issue 347, October 2005

The Noiseless PC
It’s great that PCs are becoming faster all the time but on the downside they’re also producing more heat and noise. Several solutions have been devised to keep the innards of a PC as cool as possible, the simplest method being air flow cooling. However, from the noise produced it sometimes seems as if the PC is on a runway ready to take to the skies! Water cooling is a lot quieter but what if the system springs a leak? So what about oil cooling? It looks like the perfect workaround, but then…

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