I did not even realise such an old CPU has a max power dissipation of ~35w, should be much less in typical operation. Good point.. You can still keep it cheap by leaving the fan on the HS at a constant 5v, it should be more than enough. I run a 50W+ cpu at a constant 5v fan with both stock Intel HS ...

Yeah XP (uses socket 462) HS should be more than fine. As long as nothing is in the way of it, to make good contact with the CPU. Yes 5v should be fine, the power draw of your system is so low that even with bad efficiency PSU, your unlikely to damage anything. And if it does well it was time for a ...

Is seems to make sense. thise way air will be forced to gout our via psu. Also cold air will go driectly to teh cpu. I"ll be trying it tonight (maybe as soon as i finish my hw. Only worry is that the hot air being pushed out by the psu, will be sucked in by the reversed exhaust fan. Maybe a chimney...

Place a cheapo LARGE p4 or socket462 HS on it (<300g ones) or similar. Use thermal glue such as AS to stick it onto your CPU. Use a rope and tie to the motherboard (like a large elastic loop that goes around the CPU HS + mobo). Do it both ways so you get a criss-cross. Who cares it's only a p2-233, ...

Read this article it talks about the removing of the cover and how it effects airflow and temps. Running a PSU without a fan? Removing the cover, also removes directed + concentrated airflow through the PSU components. It actually makes cooling worse with the cover off. People add ducts to aid direc...

So whose is SILENT?? Yeah, own up you! :lol: The question is, how is silence interpretated? Someone that can't hear their PC over ambience may call it silent. I assume any PC would make some kind of noise, just not audible over certain ambience level. A heart beat makes noise, but it's not audible ...

Yah it's just matter of days or maybe week(s) before the SATA's are available. They sent samples to Computer Shopper (UK) for review and it's faster than the PATA version. It stated it was available at http://www.savastore.com but when I checked it was not there yet. Should be soon though. This HD i...

I think you meant very nice? WD has never had any real good comments at SPCR mainly because it's noisy. Complaints about the whine and seek, just drove people mad here. I have not read any good comments about WD, except about the performance of the drive. The feedback at newegg are the general publi...

Thanks all for your feedback on the Nexus fan. Can someone please describe how much air it pushes at different voltages compared to the Panaflo L1a or similar?

Would you say, for the same amount of airflow, is it quieter than the 80L1a?

I think you can achieve a dramatic reduction in noise without costing you hardly anything. Before I found SPCR, I spent a small fortune on quieting components because simply I did not know what or how to get a computer quiet. It can be done quite cheeply now. 1. Undervolt or swap PSU fan and have it...

For those who don't want or have time to silence their desktop, it may be a good alternative.

You can read a review of the GX260 here.
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/
Type GX260 in the search (top left corner).

So is my PC silencing quest now finally at an end? I think it might just be! Cams What about the whine of your Maxtor drive? Doesn't it drive you crazy? That constant whine. Penetrating into your brain endlessly. On and on and on..... Not all Maxtors whine. The model I have DM+9 definitely don't wh...

It's a matter of airflow over noise, I would personally go with 2x 80mm Nexus fan over 1x 120mm fan, if noise is of the utmost importance. I can tell you an 80mm L1a @ 5v is inaudible unless you stick your ears very close to it. 2x this is still inaudible. High recommendations so far for the nexus f...

LOL, I was waiting...

I was disappointed with the one panaflo 80mm l1a that I bought. The thing clicked noticeably at 12v and I had to back it off substantially before it went away. The PC P&C fans I bought don't have this characteristic and are good performers even when undervolted. Maybe its simply the luck of the dra...

Is it possible to have the fan shut of entirely at low speeds, or would this cause the temperature to raise too high? It's almost impossible to have the fan shut down completely, the temps would just rocket too much with normal HS. Anything above 20W is almost impossible to cool passively without f...

An old trick is to put the drive into the freezer (inside an anti-static bag + ziplock bag) for a while, then take the drive out and quickly start copying files off of it. When it starts messing up again, put it back into the freezer for another go-round. Repeat as necessary. LOL, I use to do this ...

Press F8 just before you see the windows XP bootup logo. Select safe mode see if it boots up. If it does, copy/backup files you need.

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I stand by my original assertion: Panaflo fans are overrated, at least for the samples I own, listed in the first post. And as a specific example of what I mean by "overrated": I own two other commonly available 120mm fans (Enermax and Evercool Al) which move more air than the Panaflo 120mms.. at t...

From my experience with a sample size of 5, they are not as quiet as the Panaflo 80mm L1a. They are good airflow fans that produce more air, and hence more air turbulance noise. The sound is smooth and hardly makes any bearing/motor noise. I noticed with these fans they can get out of balance, if th...

Seal wrote:Will the zalman passive gfx heatsink thing fit the new ati radeon 9600xt?

Thanks
Seal

Maybe this kind of question could be answered by Zalman's web board. Or it may be asked and answered there already, try a search there.

Couple more to add to the list:

Sapphire Radeon 9600 Atlantis - Passive with small/med HS
Connect3D Radeon 9600 - Passive with small/med HS

Can be read and seen at Custom PC (UK)

For silence you must undervolt them, of course - but then they make this consistent "motor ticking" noise that is easily more annoying to me than any other fan I've ever used. I have the opposite observation: the ticking of the Panaflo is the quietest and least annoying I've heard from any fan. I'v...

The number one cause of noise from fans is air turbulance. Generally speaking the lower the airflow, the less noise they produce. Other factors such as bearing/motor noises and vibrations effects the sound quality. In this respect the Panaflo L's are very good, they produce very little bearing/moto...

Another fan I am impressed with is an NMB 3110KL-04W-B19. A bit of whine at higher voltages, but the one I have is very smooth, less vibration that any other fan I have. A nice fan, especially for the price ($2.99). Are these consistantly good or did I just get a quiet sample? David I find these fa...

I think watford.co.uk do the HEC heroichi for £19 without a case or £22 with a case. The delivery is £7.50 per order (order with other items to save money), or if you live near there, you can pick one up and not pay for delivery. Apparently the HEC has thermal control and is considered a fairly good...

OMG, thanks for the update Kostik, I can't believe FX5800 Ultra dissipates that much heat. That's equivalent to high performance CPU's.

I would actually recommend against using a laptop harddrive. I recently had to distribute some 3d rendering across my desktop and my laptop (complicated scene, time constraints) and as my laptop only has 256mb of ram it was swapping out to disk almost all the time. After a few days of hard renderin...

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