Pt 1:
I just got my big Zalman cpu cooler installed, and it really helps with the noise. Now all I can hear is the power supply. But now that it’s so much quieter, I have a new noise annoyance. Every minute or so, there’s a scraping noise, like someone is sawing metal in the next apartment. It’s faint enough to be basically impossible to pinpoint. I suppose I could disconnect HDs until the noise stops (or if it doesn’t, it’s the Windows drive).
Is this scraping noise unavoidable? Because of the irregularity, it’s actually more annoying than the constant fan noise was. Are there silent HDs, or any other things that might help eliminate this?
Pt 2:
What would be a good low-level consumer video editor? I’d just like to be able to chop out clips and save them as their own files, and shift audio that’s out of sync. I looked through Quicktime’s promo page, but what it doesn’t say is if it can handle Xvid video. I assume it can audio shift, but of course it doesn’t mention that either.