I’m a little excited and apprehensive because my boss (who is me, incidentally) today decided to roll out a new silent-computer initiative throughout our corporate offices (i.e. my little back room). To whit, I have today ordered a water-cooing kit for the Dual Xeon 2.8GHz machine on which I perform my daily feats of technical investigation.

The machine is currently exceedingly noisy, because it’s a server, designed for pure grunt and intended for use in a separate room – it boasts three fans to it’s rear, each of which are pumping out air at an alarming rate, also, within the machine, both CPU’s and the graphics card also have fans directly onto them. From what I can tell so far, the kit will enable me to replace all the internal fans and one of the external ones. it should also allow me to slow down the remaining two so that they make less noise.

Incidentally, the kit in question is an Asetek WaterChill KT03X2-L20.

So this is stage one of the initiative. Stage two will be to install a quieter, perhaps even a silent power supply unit (PSU), but I’m getting ahead of myself. Currently I’ve received confirmation from the supplier that the order has been shipped – if it arrives over the bank holiday weekend it’ll be a miracle.

I shall further discuss my experience of this project, as it progresses.