The quest for lower power, heat, and noise!
This is some very useful material that outlines how to reduce the noise of your computer system … and I found a lot of the information useful to reduce the power, heat, and noise for my wearable computers. I’m going to check into some of these parts …

Building a mini- ‘quieter-than-a-whisper’ linux pc. After building a quiet, but by no means super quiet computer i still wanted to get to the point of ‘quieter-than-a-whisper’. Not wanting to go the route of water cooling or putting the computer in the basement and running the cables through the floor,the next best solution is to try for a cooler running processor, which will not require as many fans. [kuro5hin.org]