my first computer had a problem with the fan so that every few hours it would start to rattle so loud it would wake me up in the middle of night. the only way t

my first computer had a problem with the fan so that every few hours it would start to rattle so loud it would wake me up in the middle of night. the only way to make it stop was to hit/punch the damn thing. eventually there was this fist sized dent in the side of the case. besides losing sleep, i never really understood people who fawn over super-quiet pcs, unless they are going for a media center. our way around that was using a pa system for sound. not only did it drown out the cpu fan, but it rattled the walls. nowadays though, d-link's dsm series seems to be killing the media center pc concept. we found one on CL's free stuff, and it's pretty amazing. haha don't ask me why he was giving it away.