I built a quiet quadcore amd machine some time back. The main features are a quiet power supply (essential) and no fans in the case. For more quiet one needs to take care of disks as well. There is a paper in Linux Audio Conference (Cologne I think?) about building really quiet machines at CCRMA using external water cooling. I will look it up if someone does not get there before me ==John ff Quoting Michael Gogins : > I wouldn't be a good person for such guidelines because I have never built > a PC. I just know that building a quieter one is quite possible. > > I would google for "build pc for music." Also look at the detailed > specifications for computers sold by companies that build computers > specifically built for music production, there are a number of these > companies, in fact if you have the money buying one of these might be a > good choice. > > Regards, > Mike > > > ----------------------------------------------------- > Michael Gogins > Irreducible Productions > http://michaelgogins.tumblr.com > Michael dot Gogins at gmail dot com > > > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Tarmo Johannes < > tarmo.johannes@otsakool.edu.ee> wrote: > >> Hi Mike, >> >> >> >> can you point out some guidelines to build a quiet desktop? >> >> >> >> thanks! >> >> tarmo >> >> >> >> On Thursday 06 February 2014 07:57:06 Michael Gogins wrote: >> >> If a desktop, similar specs with at least double the storage, but build it >> yourself and do it so it will run quietly. Again, any current Core i7 >> desktop will run music stuff just fine. >> >> >> >> > > Send bugs reports to the Sourceforge bug trackers > csound6: > https://sourceforge.net/p/csound/tickets/ > csound5: > https://sourceforge.net/p/csound/bugs/ > Discussions of bugs and features can be posted here > To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body > "unsubscribe csound"