I agree a noisy display can ruin many hard hours of silencing. I got stuck with an Iiyama with terrible inverter buzz before I got my present LCD. There are quite a few forums already though, so it will be at Mike's discretion whether to make a new one; also, it might end up like the Notebook forum...

Having just found myself landed with a very expensive LCD display (a NEC LCD2690WUXi) which has an audible and intrusive high pitched hum which is irremovable, I wondered if there was any chance of a new section at SPCR devoted to display noise. Any kind of a steer this might produce on which displa...

Thanks for these replies - I've sent an email to Felger Carbon. Is the "inverter" the same thing as "CCFL"? Contributors at [H]ardforum seem to think its a CCFL problem. The noise is a high pitched hum, not a buzz. It's volume and, to a much lesser extent its pitch, are affetced only by the brightne...

I have just moved from a CRT to an lcd - the NEC Multisync LCD 2690WUXi. I use my pc for graphics work and the NEC2690 is a very good successor to my crt except that it hums. Specifically, it has a high pitched hum that varies with the brightness settings - with low settings giving the most hum and ...

Mmm. My hum is not really a whine. It's a hum which slowly goes up in pitch and then back to the starting pitch, then slowly up again etc. I am pretty sure it's the S12 because the hum stops when the S12 powers down (with a whine). I am willing to change the psu but to what? I have tried the S12 500...

I have not seen any views on the Nexus NX5000 psu and wondered if anyone had any views on its quality and quietness. I have a 3500 which was excellent.
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David

My newly built system is Seasonic S12 430w, AMD Athlon x2 4400, Asus A8NSLI-Premium, ThermalRight SI-120, Nexus 120mm, Gigabyte passively cooled 128Mb vga card, x2 Samsung 200Gb SWP20149 hdds. I am experiencing a wavering, or pulsing hum. At frist I thought this was from the hdds but on closer liste...

Elastic suspension makes a big, big difference to vibration and hum reduction. I would not build a pc now without hdd elastic cradles. Incidentally, and at the obsessional end of quiet computing, if you can't track down what is producing an annoying hum in a pc, a medical stethoscope does the job we...

It's definitely worth suspending hdds in an elasticated cradle. This reduces the hum a lot (see MikeC's construction), but with my Samsungs does not cure it completely. I'm not sure there's much more that I can do short of finding some 200Gb hdds that have no hum, or maybe replacing the D drive disk...

I am running x2 Samsung 200Gb SP2014N's in a Lian Li case. Seek sound is no problem but they have an irritating highish pitched hum. Is this normal with this HDD? I have not seen hum commented on before as a problem with it. I have both HDDs suspended to reduce hum; this helps and completely removed...

Just an update. The problem of high motherboard temps is solved. I was looking in the wrong place. I had been concentrating all the cooling on the SI-120 and to its left where the chipset radiator on the mobo is. I tried various combinations of 120mm and x2 92mms suspended on a Zalman bracket. Didn'...

I must clarify something here. The "motherboard" temperature reading from Asus Prob is NOT directly from the northbridge. It comes from a specialized IC away from the northbridge. As long as you have ample airflow in your case, you don't have to worry about your heatpipe cooled NF4. Gigabyte uses a...

Thank you very much for these replies. My worry was based on zero knowledge just on what I had read here and elsewhere about the sort of temps that mobos should achieve. I thought that 30'sC was the going rate not 47C. The pc seems very stable and the aluminium radiator next to the processor seems p...

I am baffled. I have just downgraded from an Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe to an Asus A8N-SLI Premium to get a mobo with less heat and therefore a smaller cooling requirement (and as recommended by MikeC - not my downgrade just the mo boards' preference). I am running an AMD Athlon x2 4400, cooled by an SI-...

Thanks. Hmm. Temps a bit high. That's a nuisance. I think I'll try one or two different 120mm fans to see if I can find one with more cooling capacity but no more noise. I didn't think my temps were too bad. Have to ponder that.

I have a an AMD Athlon x2 4400 on an Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe with 2 Gb Corsair 3500LL Pro meomory. Also a passively cooled Gigabyte 6600 vga. Power supply is a Seasonic S12 430w. I have been using a Zalman CNPS9500 to cool the cpu and it was excellent - as a cooler - but too noisy for my liking. I tri...

Is there any info on when this cooler will be available?

David

it should be able to cool the x2 4400 the problem is fitting it, why not suspend a fan infront of the 9500. i have an x2 3800@2.4 on stock volts with an 9500 and i connected it to my dfi mobo, the fan doesnt even come on all the time because it doesnt get hot enough That's an interesting idea. I ha...

Thanks. I am put off changing my heatsink because it means taking my motherboard out of the case and fitting a new backplate. Are there any decent very quiet cooler units that will not require this?

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David

Grateful for opinions on whether the old CNPS6000 will (a) fit an Asus 8N32-SLI with an Athlon x2 4400 and (b) provide enough cooling using a suspended 92mm or 120mm. I am using a 9500 but it's too noisy.

Thanks.

David

I have the same mobo and memory but used with a passively cooled Gigabyte vga card. Processor is a x2 Athlon 4400. The Zalman 9500 fits and works fine in my set up - clears the Corsairs ok- but is not quiet enough; the longer it is on the more noisy it seems to become - growly, a mechanical sound - ...

I need to cool an Athlon x2 4400 on an Asus A8N32-SLI with 2GB ram. Power supply is a Seasonic S12 430W. I currently use a Zalman 9500 having tried an XP90 and finding it too difficult to cool sufficiently and quietly (and an incredibly fiddly heatsink to install). The Zalman 9500 is too noisy thoug...

Some time ago I asked here if anyone could recommend a quiet external hard drive. I go no responses. So I offer my own advice now having looked at a few external drives. A Maxtor One Touch was pretty quiet but crashed quite soon after purchase, a firewire Iomega 200Gb worked ok but was very noisy, a...

Grateful for advice on the quietest 400Gb (or thereabouts) external hdd. I mean a complete hard drive, not an external enclosure. Ihave had a 250gb Iomega which was very noisy, a Maxtor One Touch 200Gb which was quiet but died on me, and am currently using a 200Gb Seagate which is certainly audible ...

Just an update. I fitted the XP90 and using the Zalman bracket with a new Acoustifan 92mm and Nexus 92mm I was getting temperatures I wasn't happy with, and having to turn up the cpu fan (the Acoustifan) to avoid fan alarms from the bios and thereby increasing noise. I will try the XP90 as it is sup...

That's interesting. Thanks.

I have just put a system together based round an Athlon x2 4400 and Asus 8N32-SLI Deluxe. I opted for a Zalman 9500 to cool the cpu. This was a mistake. The fan definitely has an element of mechanical noise (a bit of sizzle) even at the lowest fanmate setting. I didn't want to get into making a fan ...

Thanks for the advice. Bondiablo - what you say is reassuring. Can I assume you do not need to fit a metal plate underneath the motherboard to attach the XP90? I think the Zalman 9500 is disappointing and I am looking forward to getting the XP90 and hopefully being able tio use the Zalman bracket an...

I have just assembled a system based around an Athlon x2 4400 with an Asus A8N32-SLI motherboard. I am using a fanmated Zalman 9500 cooler on the lowest setting, but there is still more mechanical noise from this cooler's fan than I want. I think you can replace the fan but it's a task too fiddly fo...

Don't know about cable length as I only have the S12 430w. I use this in old Lian li case and all the cables are long enough but the SL12 430 does not have all the cables for SLI - the 500w and 600w do I believe.
David