Time to silence my Pegasos2!

[eliyahu]

folks,

i love my pegasos2 system and use it most of every day -- but there is one thing that drives me crazy having gotten used to a SAM: noise. my SAM was totally silent, but this thing, well, it ain't. so it's time to shut the thing up a little.

i think we can narrow down the culprits to the following components:

1.  power supply fan
2.  case fans
3.  IDE hard disk
4.  the processor fan
5.  the radeon 9000 GPU fan

now #3 is easy enough: replace the thing with a SATA hard disk or even an SSD if i can find one for a reasonable price. as for the rest, well, that's what i'm hoping you can help with. i'm looking for recommendations to replace my power supply with something quiet. the processor fan is the one glued on there by genesi back in the day and the radeon 9000 pro has a fan put on by sapphire; i'd really like to replace both of them too since they're noisy. any ideas? maybe there is a 9000 pro with passive cooling like the 9250 in my SAM?

everything is currently in a silverstone FT-03 mini tower, by the way. the system runs with a G4 processor at 1 GHz, a radeon 9000 pro video card, SATA2 card, USB2 card, and prism2 wireless card.

fire away. with your suggestions, i mean. :p

-- eliyahu

[eliyahu]

@thread

thanks for the replies, guys. i think i'll be starting with replacing the PSU with one of the 'silent' fractal design jobs and getting rid of the (suprisingly noisy) IDE drive i use for booting purposes, going to a quiet SATA drive using an IDE-to-SATA converter. i've found a few radeon 9000 pro cards with passive cooling, but they either come with mac BIOS or only have 64MB of VRAM. so they'd be a downgrade. i'll keep hunting.

i've given serious thought to replacing the peg2 with a SAM460. once W3D drivers ship for radeonHD video cards the little board will scream -- accept that video playback isn't accelerated in any way, so, i still don't know if i want to take the plunge. a G4 is so much more performant than an AMC PPC460 -- but the SAM460 feels so much faster when being used for anything other than video/games.

oh well. i'll let the board know how my 'silencing' work goes. hopefully when i take to amiwest this autumn it will be much quieter than it was last year.

-- eliyahu

[eliyahu]

@thread

thanks for the replies, guys. i think i'll be starting with replacing the PSU with one of the 'silent' fractal design jobs and getting rid of the (suprisingly noisy) IDE drive i use for booting purposes, going to a quiet SATA drive using an IDE-to-SATA converter. i've found a few radeon 9000 pro cards with passive cooling, but they either come with mac BIOS or only have 64MB of VRAM. so they'd be a downgrade. i'll keep hunting.

i've given serious thought to replacing the peg2 with a SAM460. once W3D drivers ship for radeonHD video cards the little board will scream -- accept that video playback isn't accelerated in any way, so, i still don't know if i want to take the plunge. a G4 is so much more performant than an AMC PPC460 -- but the SAM460 feels so much faster when being used for anything other than video/games.

oh well. i'll let the board know how my 'silencing' work goes. hopefully when i take to amiwest this autumn it will be much quieter than it was last year.

-- eliyahu