The sound of a silent PC

Friday, March 27th, 2009

I’ve become a bit of an obsessive over the past couple of months. Around about then, I noticed that the noise emanating from my PC was becoming more annoying than usual; I was slowly being ground down and my resistance worn away.

Every time I played games, the ever-present hum of heatsink fans, hard disks and spinning optical drives ruined quiet moments. Every time I wasn’t blasting through the wastelands of Fallout 3 or rumbling around rally circuits in GRiD, my soundtrack was magnified, becoming more intrusive by the minute.

And what’s where my obsession begun: the endless creaks, groans and whirrs coming from my PC needed to be crushed, eliminated and silenced.

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