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| 707410 | 2008-09-24 00:38:00 | I want to make my box much quieter. Currently I have an ATX case with an inflow fan at the front, an outflow fan at the back, a GPU fan & an intel quadcore CPU cooled with a standard fan and two 7200rpm hard drives. I have just bought an 'Ultra Quiet' 650watt Corsair PSU. I don't want to go liquid cooling. Yesterday I went into a shop and saw a fanless heatsink for CPU's for about $75.00. Would it be wise to replace the standard heatsink/CPU combo with a fanless unit and replace the outflow fan with a much larger, slower rpm fan utilising the unused, large mesh vent I have on the side of my box? |
supersi (8401) | ||
| 707411 | 2008-09-24 01:18:00 | I really wouldn't. You could however try a third party CPU heatsink and fan, get a low decibel fan for it. But no fan, nah too risky. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 707412 | 2008-09-24 01:45:00 | A lot of third part heatsinks come with fan controllers. My Zalman comes with one of these, and when turned all the way down is almost inaudible. When turned all the way up, it drowns out the nearby airport. Forget about any sort of overclocking though. Keep it at stock, or maybe even underclock it, and you'll do fine. P.S. Underclocking often gives you a far more efficient CPU anyway, watt wise. |
Thebananamonkey (7741) | ||
| 707413 | 2008-09-24 03:06:00 | depends on whats actually causeing the noise. a lot of motherboards have option to controll fan speed or get a fan controller. passive heatsink would only be ok IF you can use the case fan as a cpu fan. that was quite often done by compaq/hp/dell etc. but don't forget your still left with the noise from gpu fan, chipset fan and hardrives. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 707414 | 2008-09-24 06:07:00 | Install a program that will monitor the CPU temperature, do some tests before you change the heat sink so you have before/after readings, then you can make a judgement about whether the new heat sink is working well enough. $75 is a fair bit, but, in the persuit of a quieter PC... |
rumpty (2863) | ||
| 707415 | 2008-09-25 03:18:00 | The Coolmaster GEMINII www.coolermaster.com www.cbcnz.com if you want you can mount up to 2 120mm fans on it. ~$75 gettign a larger case fan would be good aswell, since heatsinks work best when air is flowing over them. the more air, the better. |
Mirddes (10) | ||
| 707416 | 2008-09-25 03:27:00 | Actually this (www.ascent.co.nz) would be far better. Although it's a bit more expensive. It's designed from the ground up as passive, but becomes super-fantastic-awesome-cool when you strap a 120mm fan to it. Just be aware that it's freaking tall. You'll still need a fan somewhere in the case to circulate air though. |
Thebananamonkey (7741) | ||
| 707417 | 2008-09-25 04:59:00 | yeah its a ****ing awesome heatsink that one. what i like about the coolmaster is that with 2 fans you are not only cooling the processor, but the ram and the voltage regulators because its that huge |
Mirddes (10) | ||
| 707418 | 2008-09-25 05:26:00 | Just get an Artic Cooler Freezer 7 pro, better price, comes with a fan that is very quiet, mine hardly goes over 1200rpm! | SolMiester (139) | ||
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