Home » General Discussions » General Discussion » OT: Noisy Cooling Fans
| OT: Noisy Cooling Fans [message #56345] |
Sun, 30 November 2003 04:45   |
 |
General Havoc
Messages: 1564
Registered: February 2003
Location: Birmingham, England, Unit...
Karma:
|
General (1 Star) |
|
|
Hey, you are in the same situation as i'm in 
My PC Spec:
Motherboard: Ga-7DX
Windows XP Professional
AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67 ghz)
GeForce 4 Ti4200 128mb
Primary HD (120 GB)
Secondary HD (20 GB)
768 MB RAM
CD-RW
DVD Drive
Here are my fans:
1 rear exhaust fan
1 front intake fan
1 Power supply fan
1 Graphics card fan
1 CPU Cooler fan
1 chipset fan
The graphics card and chipset fans are silent so they are no problem.
I have disconnected the intake fan as "AMD's Recommended Cooling Guide" suggests it is no help at all and in some situations just circulated warm air.
As for the power supply fan, I'm buying a smart silent one from "dabs.com" as the sleve baring on it has worn. It has a thermistor to speed up the fan when the air gets to a certain temperature. I would not recommend replacing the fan in the PSU unless you know what you are doing and have experience with electronics as the capacitors inside the PSU can store a high voltage.
For the rear exhause fan I will probably buy aother smart silent one from "dabs.com" and fit it. In my case, the rear exhause is designed for a 40mm one, "AMD's Recommended Cooling Guide" suggests a 80mm or bigger so the new one will be better. Although, I will need to drill an array of holes to allow airflow through the 40mm fitting.
For the CPU cooler, I invested in a Volcano 11+ Xaser II edition (£15) that has the option to use a PCI bracker or 5 inch bay potentiometer to control the speed. At around 40% speed it is silent whilst offering cooling if your not doing anything too intensive. I turn mine up to around 60% when playing Planetside, it's a really handy feature to have.
That how I plan to silence my PC.
I'd recommend having some sort of speed controller on the noisy ones, a potentiometer or a thermistor so they only run at full speed when needed. Ditch your front intakes as they probably are more trouble then their worth. If you visit some e-tailers such as dabs.com, komplett.co.uk, ebuyer.com you can find some great cooling fans for around £8 or less.
Watercooling is another option but it will cost you £100 upwards for a proper system (with radiator, some cheap ones don't have one!) and in reality it's only as cool as your ambiant room temperature, but more than likely higher.
Here are some pics of the Volcano 11+ Xaser II
http://www.n00bstories.com/image.fetch.php?id=1082614013 - The main heatsink + fan
http://www.n00bstories.com/image.fetch.php?id=1106632369 - The 5 inch bay potentiometer
http://www.n00bstories.com/image.fetch.php?id=1025569255 - The PCI potentiometer bracket
Visit my website at http://renhelp.laeubi-soft.de powered by laeubi.de
"SHUT UP AND MOD" - Dante
"ACK is the Simon Cowell of modding" - Ultron10
Scripts.dll Debugger, Map Scripter and Tutorial writer
Computer Science Bsc
Aston University in Birmingham, UK
|
|
|
|
Current Time: Tue Nov 19 12:28:45 MST 2024
Total time taken to generate the page: 0.01017 seconds
|
Search
Help
Members
Register
Login
Home
