detonate.net - Building A Totally Silent PC! How-to

Written by Doc at rabidhardware.net

In this day and age, overclocking has changed the face of computing. From the designs of decades past, the venerable Celeron 300A, to today's powerhouses, people are striving to get the most out of their processor. While this may all be fine and dandy, it creates several side effects: heat, empty wallets and worst of all, noise.
As CPUs become hot during overclocking, the need to put a bigger and faster cooler on them increases. The problem, is the noise. Anybody who's run a high-speed Delta has the scars, the bleeding, popped eardrums, ruptured spleen, collapsed lungs from the pressure it creates. This may make overclocking seem less enjoyable for anybody other then those scary hardcore freaks who probably enjoy massive internal injuries anyway.
And here begins our quest to create a completely silent PC.

Disclaimer: This article is a satirical (HUMOUR) look at building a silent PC. If you break anything of yours trying anything in this article, it's your own fault! Better yet, don't try anything that you see in here, unless you know the consequences, because neither RH or I will take any responsibility. Thank ya, now back to the article...

The premise? Well if a super nintendo (and all it's unrefined, raw power) can work perfectly fine without fannage of any kind, why can't a PC? they both do the same thing.. play heavily commercialized and overpriced games.
Our target PC (the basics):
Athlon XP 1700+ Abit KR7A-RAID motherboard 512MB Corsair DDR
Currently, it's running the Alpha 8045 with Delta's whirring 80mm/80CFM fan of incessant shrieking and hearing loss(+2).
This will not do.
I traveled far and wide down the street to our haven of expensive electronics, Future Shop. Around the back, the car stereo install bay. I was in search of Dynamat, the black sheet of silent goodness. It was a great price, was just sitting on somebody's seat. The owner obviously left it for the taking. I proceeded to grab it out of the car and take it home, but not before stopping by Tim Hortons cause they make good coffee. and stuff. Not that fancy almond mint chocolate brownie cinnamon frappachino with sprinkles made with real coffee beans passed thru a jungle cat that they sell at that disgusting Starbucks place, either

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