alexander wrote:Is mine a TriCool?

acaurora asked you that question first! have a look on the fan to see if it says or email the suppliers to see if they know

i guess you could have PSU -->CPU--> graphics (with exhaust cooler). ok, so graphics cards dont kick out much heat, but they have a higher heat tolerance than CPU!

get a nexus 120mm expensive but easily the quietest fans around, they undervolt very well indeed.

if its still too noisy, try using rubber grommets to stop vibrations, but at 5v it wont be vibrating much at all

what you say is true, but think of it this way. you can have a fan on your GPU, 1 on CPU, 1 or 2 on PSU, and still need intake & outake fans (unless the other fans are running full speed, which would make them noisy) or, you can have everything fanless (except perhaps CPU) and have 1 large intake fa...

Well I just played one hour of FarCry and one hour of NFS Underground 2. No problems or slowdowns of any kind and still the heatsink is only slighty warm to the touch. So I'd say the installation is a success. Now let's see how long I stick with it before I'm "forced" to upgrade :) ideal dude!!!! i...

[quote="ckolivas"]Very nice setup. Two things - are those your current temperatures? You can sacrifice a bit more temperature on your cpu as you've got it pretty cold and anything below 60 degrees for a cpu will still be fine. 30 above ambient as your maximum under heaviest load is something I've be...

i seriously doubt it m8, the surface area of the stock HS is too small. maybe if you had the fan running fast, but then if you did that it wouldn;t be much quieter.

best off buying a arctic silencer for it.

i guess we will wait and see how hot boomerangs gets. Well the first small test came out like this.... I have apparently misplaced my FarCry DVD so I tried NFS Underground (I had to try something). I played continuously for about 45 minutes. I DID see some graphics distortion-ish stuff but it was v...

oh, really? i wasn;t aware of that. if you look at how small the heatsink is on the TI 4200 + its a cut down version of the 4600, so it wont produce as much heat as the 4600. i guess we will wait and see how hot boomerangs gets. the 9600 pro is expensive still, the ti isn;t worth much so its worth t...

oh, well, on overclockers the D had a pic with a fan on it. IMO the ti4200 wont produce enough heat to cause any problems, and if it does just a second heatpipe wont make much difference. if you do get probs (unlikly to happen unless you have very poor airflow in the case) then putting a fan across ...

Well after careful consideration :roll: I decided to get one of the passively cooled zalman heatsinks. The ZM-80C is the cheaper option of course and it should do just fine (I have fairly good case airflow). My question.... is it worth the extra 10$ to get the ZM-80D? I'm mainly thinking for when I...

i agree with above. fool around with it as its not worth much. you could try buying some thermal epoxy stuff and stick a big heatsink on it (perhaps an old copper CPU heatsink u have lieing around). the fan on my ti4200 was very small so i dont think it will need much cooling, as long as you have a ...

speedfan.

never tried anything else as have never had probs with it

im not certain, but im sure i remember reading somewhere that their 12V line has enough power for 2 graphics cards, but only has 1 connector so it wont work with SLI.

best off just emailing a retailer and asking them!

i just stick some of those "flannels" which attract dust inside my case (eg on the bottom of the case). they are about A5 in size, and you are supposed to attach them to the end of a broom/mop and dust hard to reach areas.

they dont stop airflow and work well!

well, if its possible to reduce it a bit then do so, as you can afford an increase in temps

yeah, what we need (readily avaliable in UK) is a seasonic super silent version meeting all the criteria!

i have been thinking about buying a new PSU (i wanna seasonic SS!) but thought it was worth warning others why i aint gonna get one yet!!!!! 1) as the new graphics cards are out with PCI xpress, a lot of PSUs without the power connectors will either be redundant, or at the least need an adapter (if ...

hi, i have an antec true power 330W PSU (see here about 1/2 way down) http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Antec_103.html as you can see in the pic, it has 2 fans. an intake above the CPU socket and an exhaust. in an attempt to make it quieter, i have removed both the fan grills. ...

hobochunk wrote:Their specs are

1200 rpm
39 cfm
25 db

How hard was the grill to remove?

Reason I asked if they were in Taiwan was because Yate Loons hq is in Taiwan.

Thanks

buy a nexus 120mm fan then, 37 CFM at 22.8db, and they undervolt very nicely!!! they are expensive though, but definatly the best.

tell us what CFM the lanboy fans produce and it will make things easier for us!

panaflow or papst fans are prob best, nexus are very quiet but have low CFM.

they look very good to me m8. how have you run the fans at 7V? if you just did a volt trick thing then ok, but if you have them on a fanmate or soemthing then i would try running them even lower, say 6.4 volts or something. your temps can afford to go higher if you want to save a bit of noise m8! as...

yeah, it would be quieter for the same CFM

q tek are the devil! some ppl swear by them, but few deny that they are nothing more than tarted up generic PSUs! http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Tagan.html the 330W one looks in your budget, although i suggest you do a bit of research cos im not sure how silent or good it is! www.futuremark....

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just have a 80mm fan intake blowing air into the case over the drive, but have it running at 5v. if your not sure how to do this, hunt around to work out the trick with swapping the wires. if this scares you too much, im sure you could find an adapter to convert 4 pin to 3 pin, and that way you coul...

morkys wrote:Even at stock speeds?

er, yeah, im pretty sure it is. the 9700 pro was so advanced for its time that it needed a lot of juce! the 9800 pro was still advanced, but technology had made it more efficient

morkys wrote:The 9800 Pro sounds like its good at underclocking according to many on here and other boards. Is the 9700 Pro hotter than the 9800 Pro or are you mainly commenting on how much it is hotter than the 9700 non-pro?

yeah, the 9700 pro is hotter than the 9800 pro!

what heatsink do you have on the CPU? you could get a Thermalright SI 97 and that would allow you to run the CPU fan down to about 1400. now that A64 is common they are quite cheap! have another 80mm fan intake, but running at about 900RPM take the exhaust fan down to about 900RPM also oh, and if it...

My Seasonic Super Silencer 460W is rev A2. From reading the forums I understood that Rev. A3 is US only. I bought this unit anyway, just to have some first hand experience. I bought the PSU from PA-Components, which is a computer case manufacturer and Seasonic OEM. Contact info; Tel: + 31 10 289 71...