Joe Votour wrote:
--- Meatwad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Brad Fuller wrote:
Joe Votour wrote:
If your board has the four holes surrounding the
CPU
(which is apparently not required by AMD in Socket
A
designs), then you can use one of the Zalman
flower
designs. When the fan is turned down to the
lowest,
it's very quiet, and still does a good job of
cooling.
(I use them in all of my PCs, including my socket
754
MythTV machine.)
I just put in a all copper Zalman on a socket 754.
Much quieter than the
stock.
you probably could get by with the copper and
aluminum mix. I think it
was $20 cheaper at newegg.com.
I have three of the Zalman Cu/Al flowers right now -
first one bought
over two years ago IIRC. No problems whatsoever. At
the speeds they are
set at now, they cannot be heard over the
Silverstone power supplies
I've been using. There may be quieter fansinks out
there but I haven't
felt the need to improve on these.
Slightly off-topic, is anyone using a Seasonic power
supply? I was
reading some reviews and they sound promising. 80+
efficiency across all
loads sounds like a really good idea for and media
center machine. If
they are as quiet as the reviewers claim, I'll
probably switch.
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I have two Seasonic power supplies actually - I have a
Super Tornado 400W in my MythTV machine, and an S12 in
my Via EPIA-based file server. (I was also using a
Super Silencer in my desktop until I picked up a P150
case which includes the NeoHE).
I find that the Seasonic power supplies are great, and
are very quiet. I can't say that I've actually
measured real numbers on them, but the noisiest thing
in my MythTV machine is the two 60mm exhaust fans on
the back. With those fans undervolted, the machine is
reasonably quiet (by reasonably, I mean, I can't hear
it while sitting on the couch, 10 or so feet away).
-- Joe
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Yeah seasonics are the quietest supply I've ever heard, or not heard
actually. We put an S12 in my girlfriend's athlon64 3000+ machine and
the PS fan spins at a constant 600rpm. It is temperature controlled but
I believe around 600 is the lowest it will go. Under full load it never
goes higher. With the included fan speed reducing connectors (they just
7 volt your fans) connected to the processor and case fan, the computer
is completely silent, and I mean completely silent, from 3 feet away. It
is more quiet than my mythtv machine by far.
Raphael
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