![]() Gordon Moore is the co-founder of Intel, so this may be something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. This law states that the number of transistors that can be packed into a CPU will double every year or two, and so far this seems to have held true, resulting in the exponential growth of computer performance. When conversation turns to the relentless progress of computer technology, you will often hear 'Moore's Law' quoted. Even the Mac, as it has shared more and more components with PCs, has lost some of its traditional advantage in this area. Now specialist music PC suppliers have to utilise expensive tweaked components and sound-damping cases to bring noise down to acceptable levels. In the days when computers such as the Atari ST found a place in many MIDI studio setups, acoustic noise from computers wasn't an issue, and musicians could use the same off-the-shelf computer hardware as anyone else. There are no optical drives - this machine is designed for use on a network.Although computers are a great deal more capable of complex audio processing tasks than they were just a few years ago, the cooling implications of all that power mean they are a great deal noisier too. My complete 'silent PC' weighs 3kg in total, and will easily fit under your arm. ![]() Is it possible to build a machine that's not just quieter than a standard PC, but completely inaudible? ![]() As studio computers get faster, they get noisier.
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