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- Sat Mar 03, 2007 4:35 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Installing a resistor on a case fan
- Replies: 0
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Installing a resistor on a case fan
I've got a bunch of 120mm yate loon case fans that I'm looking to slow down a bit. I've got a couple 2 watt, 68 ohm resistors. Does anyone have pictures of fans modified this way? I'm looking for actual photographs, not diagrams, as I'm not an electrician.
- Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:17 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD5000KS vs WD5000AAKS
- Replies: 67
- Views: 106795
Have you set the AAM to 128? Yes, but this only seems to affect the sharp seek noises, and I'm talking about motor noise. I have no problem with a little seek noise when I'm doing heavy drive access, but the constant hum is what gets to me. The drive also seems to have no problem with vibration (st...
- Sat Feb 24, 2007 5:10 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD5000KS vs WD5000AAKS
- Replies: 67
- Views: 106795
Well, after reinstalling with the new drive, it's really not that quiet at all. Maybe I was expecting complete silence after reading the reviews, but motor noise is easily audible at a meter or two away as kind of a white noise "presence". All the effort of installing silent fans and larger heatsink...
- Mon Feb 19, 2007 5:29 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD5000KS vs WD5000AAKS
- Replies: 67
- Views: 106795
- Sun Feb 18, 2007 2:42 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD5000KS vs WD5000AAKS
- Replies: 67
- Views: 106795
WD5000KS vs WD5000AAKS
Has anyone tested this new revision of the 5000KS as far as noise is concerned? The hard drive review section of SPR hasn't been updated since last June, and a new drive is the only thing standing in the way of a completely silent computer for me. I'm looking to buy either one of these drives in the...
- Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:21 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Horizontal Case Fans?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2470
Horizontal Case Fans?
I want to remove the stock fan and shroud from my video card and mount a case fan directly below it, blowing up. However the Yate Loon 120mm case fans I have will fail if mounted horizontally. What quiet fans exist that can run horizontally, and does anyone cool their card this way?
- Sun Feb 04, 2007 6:11 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Poor results with SI-120 - running hot
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2058
Update: putting the 120mm case fan back on the cpu, but blowing down instead of up made quite a large difference. The heat sink has an open design so it allows the fan to blow down onto the ram and northbridge areas. The difference is apparent as system zone 1 and zone 2 both dropped by 30F each. Ho...
- Sun Feb 04, 2007 2:10 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Poor results with SI-120 - running hot
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2058
Poor results with SI-120 - running hot
I installed my new Thermalright SI-120 this weekend on a P4 3.2c (northwood). The previous setup was a stock intel HSF with a single case fan. Before the swap, the CPU was running at 105F at idle and about 120F under load. After swapping everything into an Antec P150 and installing the SI-120, the c...
- Sun Jan 28, 2007 3:22 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Run CPU fan from mobo or PSU?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1672
Run CPU fan from mobo or PSU?
I've got an intel 865 series motherboard (socket 478) with the stock HSF. The CPU fan is plugged into the default spot next to the chip, and the motherboard varies the speed of the fan depending on the amount of heat in the system (I can hear it spin way up during games). When I replace the stock HS...
- Sun Jan 28, 2007 8:52 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Aftermarket fan with stock heatsink?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2610
- Sat Jan 27, 2007 7:26 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Aftermarket fan with stock heatsink?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2610
- Sat Jan 27, 2007 5:32 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Aftermarket fan with stock heatsink?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2610
Aftermarket fan with stock heatsink?
I have a socket 478 3.2c P4 with the stock HSF. The system runs at an acceptable temperature (40C) but the fan is insanely loud. Is it possible to replace just the CPU fan? I'm looking for the quietest possible fan without causing the processor to overheat. The CPU cooling section of the site is int...