Quote Originally Posted by 'leukos',index.php?page=Thread&postID=32453#post32 453
Another solution is to not go for complete or dead silence (~0dBA), but relatively quieter. -silencer- seemed to cover these very well. No need to duplicate the wheel.

The solution is another redefine the problem solution. The problem isn't you need to have a quiet computer, the problem is you don't want to hear all the fan noise from the computer. The solution is simple, wear a good set of studio headphones and pump music and the sound output from the game thru them.
I should have mentioned that! Back before I valued silence so much, I used to use *closed* circumaural headphones almost 100% of the time to dull out the nosie from my 92mm Vantec Tornado CPU fan. This was around '99-'00 in the Pentium3/Athlon t'bird days, and air cooling was all about high-powered fans. The thing sounded like a mini-vacuum cleaner inside my case, so the closed heaphones were the best way to play games in peace. I still use high quality closed circumaural heaphones when there's too much background noise in the rest of the house or I need to head the smallest sounds while audio mixing & production - the Sennheiser HD 280 Pro headphones are fantastic for around $100.