silent menace - the lowdown

Lian-Li PC60 Aluminium case (see below)
upgraded to AMD Athlon 3.0 GHz
1.5 Gb DDR Ram
Abit NF7 Motherboard - one died and got replaced under warranty
A chunky heatsink with a silenx fan
Tachyon ATI Radeon 9600 Pro, 128 Mb DDR.  Bought at a bargain price from ebuyer’s specials
LG electronics DVD rewriter. SIgnificantly quieter than the previous one
Philips Acoustic Edge 706 Still a very nice card!
Seagate Barracuda IV 120Gb. Ultra Quiet, and certainly fast enough. A great progress over the IBM.
Onboard networking
I replaced the enermax with a True Power PSU. It is much quieter and very reliable!
Vantec Stealth, Papst Quiet PC fan. Have ordered some silenX fans to try
Rounded ATA100 cables (see below)
Vantec vibration dampeners around PSU and fans

Imminent Doom - hasn’t changed

Case: micro ATX aopen case
Aopen quiet MATX psu, came with the case but very good soundwise. Not sure it is the most stable.
Via C3
Globalwin FSB32 Cooler - an older one with a very quiet fan on it.
258 Mb SDRam
Aopen pentium3 Motherboard
Low profile Geforce 2 64Mb - it is a gateway after all
IBM 40Gb 75GXP
2 low profile networking cards
Aopen miniature Low Noise fan

“shoot the pianist”, the lowdown

Antec minuet - hasn’t changed
piano black micro atx case
P4 2.4 - a bargain off ebay
512 Mb DDR Ram
shuttle Budget Motherboard
Standard cooler
Powercolor Radeon, 128 Mb DDRthe best low profile card I could get my hands on
Yamaha F1 CDRW nice piece of kit!
Samsung 60Gb. Quiet, fast, cool
low profile ethernet card
antec True Power matx - what a PSU!
Rounded ATA100 cables (see below)