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| 427252 | 2006-02-04 02:15:00 | i ahve this old computer, im turing it into a monowall firewall. getting a 8meg cf card with cf-ide adaptor. gettign a bigger heatsink to passivly cool the 150mhz pentium (basicly the stock cooler for a 2100+ athlon without the fan) and so far its silent apart fromt eh psu fan. i stop it with my finger and the computer is silent. i dont know what the wattage of the psu is, but it doubt its more than 200w. most likly only 100-150w. but um, can i savely passivly cool it? |
Mirddes (10) | ||
| 427253 | 2006-02-04 03:49:00 | can be done. however what i sugest is a very slow fan. you still need some air movement (to cool cpu and other componants) so you still need a fan. a nice quiet slow fan would do the job. edit: you may want to trim the psu fan grill to cut down the noise as well (use wire grill). |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 427254 | 2006-02-04 04:41:00 | when cleaning the computer (it had like really think dust caked onto everythign) i just got some tin snips and cut teh fan grill off. gar the case is sooo poorly designed, i dont know how people survived back then, i mean the sides and top of teh case is one massive bit of sheet metal folded into a U and then screwed on, the drive bays are also one peice of metal... if i coudl find the usb cable for my camera id post a picture of the case, its messy as hell, and thats with no wires in it. the psu mentions soemthign abuot ktx? and i couldnt find any info abuot a ktx standard on wikipedia... nice thing i do like though is thats the mobo just pops out on a tray along with teh backpanel that the pci/isa cards are attached to. thats 3 screws on teh site of teh case that the back of the mobo is attached to, and 4 screws from the back, aswel as teh screws to open the case. onceyou take everything out the case bascily falls over its sooo flimsy. ill post the image in a few min once i get my mate to host them on his website. |
Mirddes (10) | ||
| 427255 | 2006-02-04 05:43:00 | are your sure the case is poorly designed? a lot of the early ones have better cooling solutions than the modern ones and the the modern ones NEED the cooling. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 427256 | 2006-02-04 05:52:00 | well the drivebays block the fan of teh cpu, so thats a flaw imho | Mirddes (10) | ||
| 427257 | 2006-02-04 06:43:00 | my mates having problems with his server so ill probably post my critisms of the case 2moro some time | Mirddes (10) | ||
| 427258 | 2006-02-04 07:35:00 | I would get a 120mm fan (Vantec Stealth) and a 80mm to 120mm fan adapter and mount it on the outside of the PSU, the Stealth fans are really quiet and they'll move a sufficient amount of air to keep the PSU and its components cool. Just my :2cents: worth cheers chiefnz |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 427259 | 2006-02-04 07:55:00 | i ahve this old computer, im turing it into a monowall firewall. getting a 8meg cf card with cf-ide adaptor. gettign a bigger heatsink to passivly cool the 150mhz pentium (basicly the stock cooler for a 2100+ athlon without the fan) and so far its silent apart fromt eh psu fan. i stop it with my finger and the computer is silent. i dont know what the wattage of the psu is, but it doubt its more than 200w. most likly only 100-150w. but um, can i savely passivly cool it? I have a system to almost the exact design, one big and slow fan to keep it all cool, almost slient. I can hear it at night if i am with in a few feet of it. |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 427260 | 2006-02-06 00:58:00 | roughly how much money woudl that cost? | Mirddes (10) | ||
| 427261 | 2006-02-06 01:37:00 | stuff it, ill just use image shack for the images, evil img133.imageshack.us (http://imageshack.us) img87.imageshack.us (http://imageshack.us) |
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