My 9600/g4/450 is too loud. I regularly dust out the case so it's not that. In addition to the stock case and power supply fans there is a Tennmax Lasagna CPU fan on the g4 processor and two fans on the Voodoo5 graphics card.
A few questions for anyone who has successfully quieted their 8600/9600:
Case fan:
Has anyone found a quieter 120mm case fan? Which make/model fan did you use? If a low-flow did it provide enough cooling? Without knowing the dB level of the stock fan I don't want to buy another just to find out it's the same or louder.
Power Supply fan:
This one seems louder than the case fan. If anyone has replaced it with a quieter one which one did you use? The stock fan has a temperature sensor and looks like a variable speed but always seems to be running full blast.
Processor fan:
The card is an xlr8 carrier with g4/450 ZIF installed. The crappy heatsink fan that came with it gave out after a few months, so I bought a Tennmax Lasagna CPU fan which is low profile. It keeps the processor very cool but is loud. The ZIF carrier cards add extra height so there isn't much room between it and the case chassis. I could try a heatsink from a Beige/B&W G3 and Arctic Silver but don't know if this will provide enough cooling as it would be almost against the chassis.
Voodoo5 fans:
This is a very hot card so there probably isn't much of an option here. Tennmax sells heatsink fans for these but if they're as loud as the Lasagna forget it. Plus they're expensive. Is there a low-profile passive heatsink for these, or has anyone rigged one up that provided enough cooling?
I was also thinking of buying one of those fan control stations. Anyone have any experience with these in an 8600/9600 case?
Thanks in advance for your answers/suggestions!
-RPM
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