Last year whilst rebuilding my PC* I bought a PSU with a huge fan
(Maplins); I am very pleased with the resulting peace.
The fan is controlled and in very hot weather can run a little faster;
there are no case fans and no rhs side-cover.
The PC is in front of my shins so the quiet is very welcome.
*2-core AMD 64-bit, fanless graphics card - all recent but not cutting
edge because bought for domestic use with Linux.
Tony Wood
(from PC)
On 01/05/12 22:17, Imran Chaudhry wrote:
These days I'm doing more development work at the PC. I'm noticing the
fan noise from my PC becoming more intrusive and I'm also finding it
running hot even when idle. I have tried different thermal compound
(Artic Silver 5) application methods with two different standard Intel
fan/heatsinks but I cannot seem to keep the temperature down and thus
the fan noise to an acceptable level. The CPU is a 3Ghz P4 which are
known to produce a lot of heat so this may just be normal operation.
Having given up making this set-up quiet and wanting something with a
bit more horsepower, I want to upgrade to something quieter. I'm
planning to buy a motherboard bundle from eBay that features a Core 2
Duo (eg. E6750) as I understand that these run much cooler. As for the
fan I was thinking of fitting an aftermarket CPU cooler, has anyone
got any experience with the Zalman type fan such as this:
http://www.zalman.co.kr/eng/product/Product_Read.asp?idx=164
Do they really make a difference?
Thanks!
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