Case cooling.

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I have an Athlon 750 ( Slot A ) in my PC. A nice little computer, not the latest, but still sufficient for my needs.
The problem is the fans; I have two fans on the CPU, one on the GFX board ( Kyro II ), and one in the PSU.
When I turn it on it sounds like a small aircraft.
If I cut the wire for one of the CPU fans, the computer will still run OK, but the CPU temperature will go up to 60-65 degreed C, far to hot IMHO.
I'm thinking of ditching the fan on the GPU, replacing it with a heatsink, but I'm not sure that the chip would survive that.
The PSU is no real problem as it is rather silent.
Unfortunately, none of the fans are temerature controlled.

Does anyone have any ideas about how I could make this baby a little more quiet without spending any cash?

Except the GFX-card, I have the following HW:
C-media 8738 sound card.
Diamond Voodoo 2 3D accelerator.
Viking winmodem ( conexant HSF )
3Com NIC, unknown model.
Chronos videoshuttle II video capture card.

I'm thinking about ditching the NIC, the modem and the capture card to save power and heat.

Any other ideas??? :-?

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I'm gonna try to re-build the PC when I get home  tonight.
The Voodoo2, the capture card ( never really used it anyway... :-D ), the NIC ( not using it anyway :-D ) and the modem ( I haven't sent a fax for months now ) will have to go.
Also, I'm ditching that old 324 meg hard drive which is makin some noise ( and probably heats up the system aswell.
Hmmm... what else?
I'll try to run the CPU with only one fan, more cooling paste on the GPU and on the chipset heasink, I'm going to throw out my secondary floppy drive out the window...
 :-D  :-D  :-D

Hopefully I'm going to end up with a quiet system.
In the worst scenario, I'll have to ditch my Kyro and start using that ol' ISA SVGA card that I have lying around...  :-P

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KennyR wrote:
whabang, you can remove what you like, but I guarantee you 90% of the heat from your system is coming from the CPU and gfx card GPU.

Why not ditch the Athlon board and get a nice PPC? ;-) :-D

1) Probably, but reducing the load on the PSU will probably cool it down a bit.

2) Voodoo2 cards emits enormous ammounts of heat.

3) I can't afford it! :-D

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@Paul_Gadd
I doubt that would be very silent... :-)

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@jumpship.
My CPu is down at 35 C when ideling, so I doubt that that's the problem.
The problem is that the fans aren't temperature controlled. They run at maximum speed constantly... :-(

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No idea, 2x40mm, perhaps...

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Yeah, I know.
I'll have to look into it next payday... :-D