When I install a larger hard drive, I take out the smallest one in my system and throw it into an external enclosure (eSATA usually).

As for your plugging in/unplugging, then sure you could, though, if it's not sATA, then each time you put it back in, you'll need to remind Windows that it's been installed. The sATA drives can even be hotswapped if you really want to poke around in your machine while it's on.

My case (check out my sig) is extremely quiet and you wouldn't think that there are 4 fans that are constantly on. If you want a quiet computer, don't get a 10K rpm hard drive like i did (love the performance, hate the noise).spierdalaj666

Hey all, it's time for me to get a new pc. With my last pc, I didn't pay much attention to making it quiet. It has 3 hard drives, $2 80mm fans x 4, stock GPU cooling, stock CPU cooling, and a mobo with fan cooling.

What I'm looking for is a case that's quiet, fanless mobo, 120mm fans, quiet PSU, quiet CPU cooling solution, quiet GPU cooling solution.

The only things I'm taking from my old system is the 7900Gt and 2 of the hard drives.

What I'm looking at:

Case

ANTEC Solo no PSU

or

Antec Sonata II w/PSU

PSU

Vantec Quiet PSU

MOBO

ASUS M2N

CPU HEATSINK

Ninja Heatsink

 

Now, not having built a "quiet" pc before, I am open to whatever suggestions people might have. I'll be sure to use screws with rubber and try and make sure that all mounting points have rubber involved.

Overall, my main concerns are heat and vibration noise, I suppose. I'm probably looking at getting an AMD AM2 X2 chip, though, I'm eager to try and get a Conroe E6600, but I've yet to figure out a good motherboard for the Conroe (so suggestions there would be nice as well).

Basically, anyone who has built a quiet pc lately, I'm open to your suggestions. I'm not attached emotionally to any parts involved, so if you have other suggestions feel free. Money is not really an object, but keep it reasonable, I'd like to keep it under $1000 which should be fair considering I already have my GPU.

Do you think it's a good idea to get a UPS for my PC (and other electronic devices)? There's no real problem with my electricity in my house though.

I'm thinking of getting this, since it's on sale at Bestbuy

APC UPS

Any ideas?

GRiMeY

Edit: One issue with my ****** was that it didn't like the surge that resulted from a CRT monitor starting up. So my CRT (which is aging) is just attached to the surge protection and my nice new LCD is attached to the UPS.  The APC ones at work run very well under a heavy load, so I'd suggest those.

I don't get why it is rare.Genuma

but what i want is a intergrated wifi.mi6ops