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| 141646 | 2003-05-05 11:49:00 | wow good input thanks 4 the sites i was going to buy PC World Mag 2day but it wasn't in :( i'v never heard or that Silocon Mag (i will thogh) thanks for the site Murray and the Zalman CNPS6000-Cu was what i was looking at before Tweak'e, looks GR8 gtg finaly after 13 hrs of work its home time :( no net @ home |
sc0ut (2899) | ||
| 141647 | 2003-05-05 11:50:00 | > and side air > vents can let noise through. Dont I know it! :-( |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 141648 | 2003-05-05 12:21:00 | I've been trying similar on a budget. The things that have gone right: - maxtor harddrive, silent outside of case. - volcano 11 at minimim speed. performs the same as the amd cooler, but quieter. - aopen cd-rw. defaults to 40x which is fairly quiet (not that it makes any noise most of the time anyway). no so good: - iCute PSU. dual fan. noisey as hell. I'm getting a 350w enermax this week with temp controlled fans. - motherboard, had to get one with a fan on the chipset. - graphics card, ordered a radeon 9000 which has no fan, they sent me the pro version. I would compain if it wasn't worth more & it seems fairly quiet. - total of 5 fans without any case fans!!! I've also got a voltage regulator rigged up to control the speed of my case fans if I end up needing them. The idea being, lots of slow fans should move as much air as a single fast one. I may give sound insulation a go depending on how the enermax goes. |
bmason (508) | ||
| 141649 | 2003-05-05 12:28:00 | >>but they are noisy ummm no they arent... a well setup watercooling system is silent, what you are hearing are other noise factors... right now the noisiest component in my rig is the GPU hsf.. whiney little buggar is going to be replaced soon with a large passive heatsink, and then I'll have a VERY silent rig For my psu I removed the fingerguards and put in a Panaflo 80mm fan.. This has made it virtually silent. See here (forums.overclockers.co.nz) for more. You'd be surprised just how much noise those fingerguards make.. so if your fingers arent going near the fans - get rid of the fingerguards!!! If you want help with watercooling, just gimme a yell.. I've probably got the best credentials here |
whetu (237) | ||
| 141650 | 2003-05-05 12:40:00 | home.hccnet.nl A guide to quieter fans/voltage. 2 80mm fans run at 7.5v for eg, will run quieter than one running at 12v, depending on the fans bearings and starting point, etc. Worked a treat in my old comp using NMB fans. Haven't attempted the new one yet, soon. :D Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 141651 | 2003-05-05 12:45:00 | home.hccnet.nl sorry wrong link above post, the smaller the fan usually the bigger the noise/cfm. Look at the cfm/dBa and what can be achieved by dropping the voltage. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 141652 | 2003-05-05 12:51:00 | >>- graphics card, ordered a radeon 9000 which has no fan, they sent me the >>pro version. I would compain if it wasn't worth more & it seems fairly quiet. May I ask how you are getting on with that card under Linux. I know of a few people recently that have been getting video cards and have opted to go for nVidia instead of ATI purely because of driver issues under linux or something. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 141653 | 2003-05-06 03:49:00 | The reason I chose it over a GF4MX was because of its linux support (and directx8 support). There are two drivers available, opensource & ati's binary only one. Opensource support for it has only been around since XFree 4.3.0, but I've found it to be stable. I haven't tried any games yet, but the opengl screensavers run insanely fast. Mandrake 9.1 had no problem setting it up. I think the dual head stuff works. I had it mirroring the display fine, but never tried streching the desktop. I haven't used ATI's binary driver because it only supports XFree 4.1.0 & 4.2.0 currently. Which is why having an OS 3d driver is handy. |
bmason (508) | ||
| 141654 | 2003-05-06 04:04:00 | The soft youth of today . :-( Some years ago, a research student I worked with needed data . The magnetic tape drive wasn't working, so he used the fast papertape punch . A 110 cps punch is noisy . He was collecting data at night , so he slept beside the computer . The punch would go off about every three-five minutes, after a data collection run and processing had finished . After the first few nights, he said that he had got used to it, and woke up only when the punch didn't go off, because something had gone wrong . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 141655 | 2003-05-06 05:32:00 | Thats a rather interesting story there Graham. I'll have to remember that to tell people that are crazy abou the whole silent thing. Though maybe a puch in times like that could be nicer than the whirs and whines that happen now. | -=JM=- (16) | ||
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