In today's Wall Street Journal, a feature on a PC modder subculture devoted to making computers as quiet as possible. Carl Bialik of the WSJ online team says,
To eliminate background hums, the sounds of noisy fans and whines from spinning parts — even levels as low as 30 to 35 decibels are considered objectionable by some — engineers have used tools as varied as a clothes-dryer exhaust hose and an empty plastic snack cup. One computer programmer tells the Journal, "This is what happens when you start getting into quiet computing. Your standards for how loud is too loud…get lower and lower."
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