At 1:19 PM -0600 1/4/04, Mel Krewall wrote: >No, the wind tunnels came later. The 733s were the first-gen >Quicksilvers. My Quicksilver 933 fans are definitely noticeable, but >not obnoxious. Everyone has their own standards for what is too noisy. Hi all, Thanks for the responses. I don't really care about the noise esthetically, I just want to know if the noise signals something is wrong with the Mac. If it's just meant to be noisy, that's fine :@) Fan noise levels seem to go up and down somewhat, and aren't exactly correlated with memory intensive tasks. Anne Keller Smith Down to Earth Web Design G4 733mHz (OS X.2/Classic) | Graphite iBook 333mHz (OS 9.0.2) mailto:earthpigz at earthlink.net http://www.downtoearthweb.com