Last year whilst rebuilding my PC* I bought a PSU with a huge fan
(Maplins); I am very pleased with the resulting peace.
The fan is controlled and in very hot weather can run a little faster;
there are no case fans and no rhs side-cover.
The PC is in front of my shins so the quiet is very welcome.
*2-core AMD 64-bit, fanless graphics card - all recent but not cutting
edge because bought for domestic use with Linux.
Tony Wood
(from PC)
On 01/05/12 22:17, Imran Chaudhry wrote:
> These days I'm doing more development work at the PC. I'm noticing the
> fan noise from my PC becoming more intrusive and I'm also finding it
> running hot even when idle. I have tried different thermal compound
> (Artic Silver 5) application methods with two different standard Intel
> fan/heatsinks but I cannot seem to keep the temperature down and thus
> the fan noise to an acceptable level. The CPU is a 3Ghz P4 which are
> known to produce a lot of heat so this may just be normal operation.
>
> Having given up making this set-up quiet and wanting something with a
> bit more horsepower, I want to upgrade to something quieter. I'm
> planning to buy a motherboard bundle from eBay that features a Core 2
> Duo (eg. E6750) as I understand that these run much cooler. As for the
> fan I was thinking of fitting an aftermarket CPU cooler, has anyone
> got any experience with the Zalman type fan such as this:
> http://www.zalman.co.kr/eng/product/Product_Read.asp?idx=164
> Do they really make a difference?
>
> Thanks!
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