A couple of years ago, I switched my PCs over to Seasonic power supplies and Zalman CPU heatsinks. I also replaced any extra case fans with the Panasonic quiet 3" fans. All of that worked very well. The noisiest remaining component was the fan on my ATI video card.
I got a Zalman heat-pipe based heatsink for the video card, and I think that was a mistake. Although it reduced the noise considerably, I think that the weight and the mounting method put too much mechanical stress on the graphics processor chip, possibly cracking the silicon or the solder bonds. The video card became flaky soon after I installed the heatsink, and its replacement failed as well. I did not install it on the next card, and that card has worked flawlessly for at least a year. -- John Stimson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Stimson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=218 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21359 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
