I have the following PC:
AMD Athlon 4800+ X2 (Brisbane core)
Gigabyte MA78GM-S2H
8GB DDR2
Sapphire 3850 Silent Heatpipe
Western Digital 640GB hard disk drive
Pioneer DVDRW
Gigabyte GZ-M2BPD-710 Mini Tower case
Thermaltake SPTT430 PSU
At the moment I have:
- stock CPU cooler including fan
- stock 80mm rear case fan
- stock 2x 80mm fans in PSU
Now, I want to make this machine a little quieter. My idea at this stage is:
- Replace CPU cooler with large Ninja (mini?)
- Remove all existing fans
- Drill and cut some holes in case and PSU
- Install Scythe 120mm fan in PSU, sucking air out of case
- Install WorksPower 250mm in side of case, blowing air in (over CPU + Northbridge + CPU)
Thoughts, advice, suggestions, experience, please share them!
Help me decide how best to cool my PC
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theycallmebruce
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Ninja Mini with quiet 92mm like Nexus will do amazing things.
You could consider cutting fan grille off rear and use 80mm -> 120mm fan adapter and mount fan outside the case. That would minimise the need to hacking the case.
And instead modding PSU it might be easier to buy corsair CMPSU 400CX
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817139008
Or similar PSU. Thermal take 2 fan PSU is not really designed for 120mm PSU. So putting 120mm fan might actually to do more harm as that PSU mouting 120mm fan on bottom would make most of the air pushed back to case. As the PSU is differently designed. The air flow would have problem as PSU internals is not designed to cope single 120mm fan's air flow effectively.
You could consider cutting fan grille off rear and use 80mm -> 120mm fan adapter and mount fan outside the case. That would minimise the need to hacking the case.
And instead modding PSU it might be easier to buy corsair CMPSU 400CX
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817139008
Or similar PSU. Thermal take 2 fan PSU is not really designed for 120mm PSU. So putting 120mm fan might actually to do more harm as that PSU mouting 120mm fan on bottom would make most of the air pushed back to case. As the PSU is differently designed. The air flow would have problem as PSU internals is not designed to cope single 120mm fan's air flow effectively.
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theycallmebruce
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Thanks jamppa.
For PSU, can you recommend anything in this list?
http://www.netplus.com.au/products-list ... 20Supplies
I bought the ThermalTake there and should be able to exchange for credit.
For anyone in Aus who is interested, I found this ebay store which stocks bits like the fan adapter:
http://stores.ebay.com.au/modncomputers
For PSU, can you recommend anything in this list?
http://www.netplus.com.au/products-list ... 20Supplies
I bought the ThermalTake there and should be able to exchange for credit.
For anyone in Aus who is interested, I found this ebay store which stocks bits like the fan adapter:
http://stores.ebay.com.au/modncomputers