Just thought I'd do an update
The only bad thing about this PC is that it sounds like a Jumbo Jet during take off due to the really noisy power supply. It's pretty bad if you need to pile some compression onto a vocal as I have to record quite near the tower. It seemed twice as loud as my old Dell used to record the previous album. I usually had resorted to using a duvet to block out some of the sound.
Well the other night I ventured into the loft to try and find some spare Senheisser headphones I used to use for mixing to lend my son. I'd stopped using them quite a few years back as they were very well suited to mixing being a bit bright and not enclosed. Nice for listening to his tablet in his bedroom though.....well I emptied almost every box and carton in that damned loft and couldn't find them but...I did find the Corsair whisper quiet large fanned 400w Psu that I bought a couple of years ago and never got around to fitting before we had to move house. I just put it in a box and forgot about it. Also in the same box was an Asus 1gb Silent series Graphics card...and also 2 Auralex LENRDs
It was like Xmas all over again, I went downstairs and spent a happy hour ripping the PSU out of this machine, putting the new one in which was of a way higher build quality...I'd also been using the onboard graphics but was pretty sure the bios default was to auto detect if I fitted another, so in that went.
Plugged it all back in....crossed my fingers...first thing that struck me was the sound of silence...thought it wasn't working for a second but it was just that the PSU was so quiet the sound of the external HDD was louder
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It booted up first time and worked right away...Even Sonar Behaved...first..time..ever
So I'm a happy bunny now, it just takes a bit of getting used to not having the background noise...like I notice the clock ticking or the boiler firing up
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