whabang wrote:
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??? :-?
If you want to get a quieter case one way is to get a fan speed for the front of the case (some can be bought for anything from 4 to 16 fans to control) One way of making things silent. I've actually just bought a 4 dial 4-16 case fan controller for my PC. Can't wait till it arrives.
As far as I know, Athlons can take alot of heat. My athlon 1.33 Ghz can withstand upto 95 degrees celcius, but with my fan setup it runs at 45 degrees celcius on average. I did have a cpu fan that was a fast 6000 rpm and it sounded like an airplain. Since that one I bought an AMD fan and heatsync, and it seems way quieter. There are specially made quiet CPU fans and Heatsync combos available aswell. Another solution seems to be 80mm to 60mm convertors, allowing normal 80mm case fans to be used as a cpu cooling fan. Same/more airflow as the 60mm fans but at way lower rpm, and therefore a little bit quieter.
You could always go for a water cooled system aswell
