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<blockquote data-quote="cheetah05" data-source="post: 109845" data-attributes="member: 19628">Thank you again for taking time to write your replies guys/gals and thanks for the links, i will almost certainly get around to reading them this weekend.The problem is, that I am very, very,very sensitive to noise and I have a small apartment so the media center pc is essentially in my bedroom.I think i will just have to save a bit and get an mCubed case and I can understand that getting totally silent without is near impossible (whilst still looking good). That way it will be silent and have a silent psu aswell which would be great. I wouldnt have any fans running on this either.I do want to have quite a futureproof media center, so I think i will get quite a good one. I've heard that the Core 2 Duo CPUs have a 65mn (or something like that), which makes them run with minimum heat, so I think i will end up getting one of these. Hopefully by the time i have the money for the case, the technology will be cheaper. I could even go for a laptop version of this chip and unvolt which would be even less heat, but that would have lower performance.Interesting read on the Solid State Hard Drives. I think i will wait and get one of those. Should provide a good performance over a usb stick aswell and would be silent. For the time being i think i will get a laptop hdd and use that.With regards to graphics cards, I think i will get one of the low-end Nvidea 7 series PCI-E cards with a passive heatsink and HDMI onboard, which would be excellent. I can have HDTV and purevideo codec.I will get a passive mothboard too, so overall I could have a totally silent PC which would be perfect.My only worry that in the summer when it is hot, it would overheat.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cheetah05, post: 109845, member: 19628"] Thank you again for taking time to write your replies guys/gals and thanks for the links, i will almost certainly get around to reading them this weekend. The problem is, that I am very, very,very sensitive to noise and I have a small apartment so the media center pc is essentially in my bedroom. I think i will just have to save a bit and get an mCubed case and I can understand that getting totally silent without is near impossible (whilst still looking good). That way it will be silent and have a silent psu aswell which would be great. I wouldnt have any fans running on this either. I do want to have quite a futureproof media center, so I think i will get quite a good one. I've heard that the Core 2 Duo CPUs have a 65mn (or something like that), which makes them run with minimum heat, so I think i will end up getting one of these. Hopefully by the time i have the money for the case, the technology will be cheaper. I could even go for a laptop version of this chip and unvolt which would be even less heat, but that would have lower performance. Interesting read on the Solid State Hard Drives. I think i will wait and get one of those. Should provide a good performance over a usb stick aswell and would be silent. For the time being i think i will get a laptop hdd and use that. With regards to graphics cards, I think i will get one of the low-end Nvidea 7 series PCI-E cards with a passive heatsink and HDMI onboard, which would be excellent. I can have HDTV and purevideo codec. I will get a passive mothboard too, so overall I could have a totally silent PC which would be perfect. My only worry that in the summer when it is hot, it would overheat. [/QUOTE]

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