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| 756943 | 2009-03-18 09:58:00 | I made a discovery of sorts. I found that if I have the fans in the configuration: Rear fan: out Front fan: in PSU: out CPU: in This set up will make the graphics card run 8 -10 degrees hotter than if I swap the front fan to: out. I reason that unless there is air flow through the en8600gt silent graphics card' heat pipe, it runs correspondingly hotter. I'm going to get some 120mm fans and run them with the cool n quiet system. I'm sick of the constant drone! From what I've read, a bigger fan pumping the same amount of air does so at a lower rpm, so is quieter. Any thoughts? Thanks. |
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| 756944 | 2009-03-18 10:20:00 | If its just the GFX card getting hot, would this work? www.trademe.co.nz |
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| 756945 | 2009-03-19 11:07:00 | Blam... quite an interesting idea. May follow that one up. Thanks. When I bought the silent graphics card, I thought... you beaut, a card without a noisy fan.... my 1st step toward a quieter PC! What they don't tell you is: other fan/s in your case have to do the work. One improvement I found today was when I swapped out the rear fan for a higher speed one. Cool n quiet runs it at about 1070rpm while the quieter, slower fan ran at 700rpm. That change made a difference of 5C to the GPU. The plan now, is to get 120mm case fans of a high speed for their type and let cool n quiet regulate their speed. This way I'm hoping to get perfomance/efficiency when I need it and quietness otherwise. Anyone using Asus cool n quiet have a comment or experience? |
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