Good and bad news

[ciphergoth]

Good news: I have a new quiet PC.

Bad news: at the moment, it's louder than a jumbo jet taking off. It is the loudest PC I have ever owned

I have to work out how to control the fans from the motherboard before the noise drives me crazy.

For the curious, this is what I ended up ordering:

1 x AMD (Newcastle) Athlon 64bit 3000+ 754pin 512kb L2 Cache Retail Boxed Processor with 3 Year Warranty and Fan Included 58431 £82.22
1 x Gigabyte GA-K8VT800 PRO Socket 754 K8T800 Gigabit Lan Firewire 1394 USB2 FSB800 Serial ATA133 54267 £57.03
1 x Seagate Barracuda ST3200822AS 200Gb 8Mb Cache 7200RPM - OEM 74108 £67.82
1 x Ebuyer 512mb DDR PC3200 400MHz Extra Value Ram 49447 £37.34
1 x Antec Overture 380WATT Quiet Media Case In Black 52666 £64.93
1 x Hauppauge WinTV-Nova-t PCI Freeview Receiver for 38 Plus Channels in DVD Quality DVB Radio / Remote control / And Doubles as a PC Video Recorder 27669 £53.31
1 x Belkin PC-DVD to TV Cable Kit, with S-Video Cable & Scart Adapter 5m 57790 £5.68

Comments

[zotz]

Get much longer keyboard and monitor leads and sit the case in someone else's bedroom instead. This is the only method that's guaranteed to work.