On Sunday 16 January 2005 21:56, S�ren Dalsgaard wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to setup a mythtv box and most bits are in place but the > machine is somewhat noisy. I tried spraying a lubricant into the fan > on the CPU and the fan on some chip on the motherboard and that took > care of the worst bits.But I would prefer an even more quiet pc. > > My pc is an AMD Athlon 1.1GHz I've found that watching tv through the > pvr350 requires 3-5% cpu load so cutting those 1.1GHz in 3 or 4 should > not pose a real problem. > > The fan on the motherboard is a bit of a mystery to me - what does it > cool (yes a chip, but what chip and can I remove that fan too when I > underclock the pc)? i have a 1G athlon and i replaced the northbridge fan (which was very loud) with a zalman heatsink. has worked well for me for about a year. -- simon _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
