<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/11/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Indulis Bernsteins</b> <<a href="mailto:indulis.b@au1.ibm.com">indulis.b@au1.ibm.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<br><tt><font size="2">> 7. I've got a Thermaltake Volcano 7 CPU fan and
it sounds like a jet<br>
> engine it's so loud. Is there another fan that will provide sufficient<br>
> cooling or a silent alternative that can cut down on the noise? The
case<br>
> has a side mounted fan to provide circulation. This will be going
in my<br>
> living room/kitchen so volume is an issue.<br>
</font></tt>
<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">Scythe make some nice low/zero noise
fans. I have the the Katana- it is a Universal (up to socket 939
I think). Heatpipe, v quiet. With an Athlon 1.6GHz it hardly
need the fan. It is big but light.</font>
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<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">You will also need to change your northbridge
cooler once the main fan noise goes. Try Zalman, there are 2 coolers, I
have the blue one with high fins, and curved metal arms which clip into
the motherboard. WARNING- once the clips go in they don't come out
of the motherboard.</font>
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<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">Then you'll hear your power supply (Antec
and Seasonic make nice quiet ones that are efficient with big quiet 120mm
fans).</font>
<br>
<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">Then replace your case fans with 120mm
fans (Panaflo) with speed controls. Then mount your disk drives on
silicon bushes.</font>
<br>
<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">Then replace your case with a quiet
one (Antec P180 is what I got... no power supply included).</font>
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<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">Now you have a nice quiet PC.
Easy!</font>
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<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">Cheers,</font>
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<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">Indulis<br>
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</div><br>Thanks for the how-to! I'll definately research your suggestions!<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Timothy Waters<br><a href="mailto:timothy.waters@gmail.com">timothy.waters@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://www.e-Waters.org">
http://www.e-Waters.org</a><br>205-587-9001<br><br>"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln <br><br>"It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man." Albert Einstein(1946)