Encore CS5 loud transcoding

Hi first time posting here.
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Win 7 64 Ultimate
Encore CS5
It never use to happen when I burned dvds with Encore but now every DVD I build a project. During Transcoding the PC get loud and sometimes annoyingly loud I cant do any other work till its done.
Any ideas or do I have to live with it?  Would help if i can get it quieter as this is my business.
Thanks in advance.

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    ID                                       : 255 (0xFF)
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    Commercial name                          : HDV 1080i
    File size                                : 9.39 GiB
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    Start time                               : UTC 2011-10-14 22:10:51
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    Maximum Overall bit rate                 : 33.0 Mbps
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    Menu ID                                  : 100 (0x64)
    Format                                   : MPEG Video
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    Height                                   : 1 080 pixels
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    Transfer characteristics                 : BT.709
    Matrix coefficients                      : BT.709
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    Menu ID                                  : 100 (0x64)
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    Format profile                           : Layer 2
    Codec ID                                 : 3
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    Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
    Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
    Compression mode                         : Lossy
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    File size                                : 545 MiB
    Duration                                 : 49mn 37s
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    Format                                   : PCM
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    Codec ID                                 : 1
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    Bit rate                                 : 1 536 Kbps
    Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
    Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
    Bit depth                                : 16 bits
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