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| Thread ID: 36015 | 2003-07-28 10:55:00 | Fans and noise | sjbryce (2129) | Press F1 |
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| 163470 | 2003-07-28 10:55:00 | Ok i am getting really annoyed with how much noise my comp is putting out. Any idea on the quietes cpu fan fora a 1600+ xp , case fans and psu fans ???AHAHAHAH | sjbryce (2129) | ||
| 163471 | 2003-07-28 11:11:00 | Wear padded stereo earphones or ear muffs to cut out the HF noise :) Works well! |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 163472 | 2003-07-28 11:29:00 | Look at Silent PC Review (www.silentpcreview.com/) & Quiet PC (http:), should be enough links from those 2 to keep you going. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 163473 | 2003-07-29 00:04:00 | could try a cardboard box over it on the floor as far away as possible get longer leads and put it in a corner add padding internally to muffle noise | kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 163474 | 2003-07-29 00:07:00 | last resort buy some ear plugs from the chemist; come to think about it I have some in the drawer lol | kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 163475 | 2003-07-29 00:23:00 | er... thank your lucky stars you can hear it, not all of us are that lucky.... and ear plugs are ok too and if you padded a computer that much wouldnt overheating be of a concern? beetle |
beetle (243) | ||
| 163476 | 2003-07-29 01:50:00 | Seriously it is very difficult to make small quiet fans that will move the quantities of air required for cooling cpus and on board chipsets/video chips etc. The larger the fan the lower the air velocity at the blade tips for the same air flow and hence a larger fan will tend to be quieter, but you need a minimum air speed through a cpu heat sink to remove the required amount of heat by forced convection. Years ago at Lucas we put an enormous amount of work into blade design for quiet domestic fans, but didnt get very far. Tangential fans are quieter, they have better aerodynamic shape, but they would cost too much for computer use. One way you could design your own fan cooled system is to have a separate large powerful fan in a remote box, do away with internal fans, and then duct the air into the computer and direct it at the points needing cooling. A ducted exhaust would be need too. There was an article on water cooling in PC World wasnt there, not too long ago? |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 163477 | 2003-07-29 02:27:00 | Everyone always looks to the fans when trying to reduce the noise of their PC, however a bit of insulation also wouldn't help. Cases are cheaper today than they were a couple of years ago for a couple of reasons, one of them been that they are less vibration resistant and less noise reducant | roofus (483) | ||
| 163478 | 2003-07-29 03:55:00 | I agree, do up your screws inside and outside of the case securely and it'll go long way. IMHO your best bet would be a Volcano 9 or Volcano 11 CPU Fan. Check qmb.co.nz for info on them. You've also gotta realise there may be a noisey PSU Fan, Motherboard, and GPU Fan contributing, but I know for me that as soon as I can replace the CPU fan (An OEM Fan that came with the Heatsink/CPU), it'll be a millino times quieter.. I feel like Im living at the airport its so bad! |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 163479 | 2003-07-29 04:44:00 | Me, I went for an "Aero Cool" nicknamed "The Silent Tornado" Using on an AMD, and very quiet. Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
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