How loud is your primary computer?

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It's silent

5945 votes / 17%

It's only audible under load

9146 votes / 26%

It's a constant, minimal buzz

5849 votes / 17%

It's mostly quiet, occasionally noisier

4484 votes / 13%

It's not quiet, but not loud enough to annoy

3488 votes / 10%

It's louder than I prefer

3255 votes / 9%

It's far too loud

850 votes / 2%

It's a 4.3 on the Richter scale

1220 votes / 3%

34237 total votes.

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Water cooling FTW (Score:1, Insightful)

by DeTech ( 2589785 ) writes: on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @02:13PM (#46092395)

Pump's make far less noise than fans.

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Silent to me, at least (Score:5, Insightful)

by magarity ( 164372 ) writes: on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @03:07PM (#46093021)

My tinnitus drowns out the sound of all but enterprise servers so all my PCs are totally silent.

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Re:Water cooling FTW (Score:5, Insightful)

by mandark1967 ( 630856 ) writes: on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @03:56PM (#46093651) Homepage Journal

Then why in the world would someone "Pump up the Jam"?!

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Water cooling FTW (Score:1, Insightful)

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