zalmans are much better than the stock coolers. I used to run my stock cooler on 5v and it was actally quite quiet but the temp would reach 70°C, where as with my CNSP7700-AlCu at 5V it's slightly quieter and only reaches 55°C Thermaltake actually do reasonably good heatsinks for the price, but the ...

the sonata psu fan will probabally run at around 1500-1800rpm by default, which is quite loud I've modified mine to a sleeve bearing fan with insulated rubber mounts but it still speeds up, it just doesn't get good airflow. With this in mind a passive psu is out of the question in the sonata, and re...

Also a better psu would help, like one of the seasonics in the recomended list

The sonata case and psu fans will be loudest, especially the psu fan as it just doesn't get enough air due to the sonatas poor air flow.
If you could get the Antec SLK3000B or Antec SLK3700BQE instead this would be preferable.

mines 3.01

if you don't want to worry about the fan malfunctioning go intel, you can remove the entire heatsink from their chips and no burn them thermaltake make reasonable budget products, in fact their copper heatsinks are quiet good if you were to lap the base but their concept of quiet is baffling, and to...

mine do this and I only notice it when the case is open or I'm going to sleep. when I first got rid of the noisy components from my system it would really do my head in. I would be going to sleep and I'd hear hd activity and think 'what the..' look at the case and see no hd light and just thnk I was...

if usb2 is all you really need why not just buy a pci card. Is the performance of your pc really lacking because it sounds like it's fine to me. I would wait a year or so for the athlon 64's to come down in price and then pick up a socket 939 board and whatever chips are out at the time perhaps put ...

I bought a 2nd hand 8 port d-link switch off ebay which also had a very noisy fan in it so I took it apart and adapted the power header to accept a molex and its going to be mounted inside my linux router/firewall where the case air flow will take care of it's cooling I couldn't beleive that this ti...

the head noise on the maxtor is very low but it does whine a lot, it's louder than my 2 7200.7's put together

just looked through those pics and you are putting on way too much compound. put some on the heatsink base and wipe it off with lint free cloth, this leaves microscopic amounts in any of the gaps. Then like Mr_Smartepants said, put a small amount, the size of a grain of rice in the centre and then l...

that may not always be true, with heatsinks as efficient as the xp120 the fins can feel quite cool touching the fins on my 7700, they don't feel at all hot but my cpu temp can be between 55-60, now I've only just applied the ceramanique so it needs some time to burn in your temps are also way too hi...

bog roll won't do it, though I doubt this is whats causing the extremely high temperatures you should still clean with an alchohol based cleaner as there are lots of microscopic particles left behind if you don't so the new compound can't fill these gaps as for being in full contact check and see if...

seagates don't have AAM

if you are lucky and have a maxtor with very litttle whine then using the feature tool to turn down the AAM setting would make that a vbery quiet drive, but I do think other noises may be concealing the drives spin noise.

the xp120 is the best ait cooler you can get, quiet or otherwise the problem is either, possibly a faulty cooler, unlikelythough poor case airflow, you should at the very least have a good exhaust fan behind the cpu and a clear path for air to travel through the case, preferably with another fan dow...

Yeh Pjotor is right. But the reason I say not to use the cards fan header is that it's too loud. Running off 5V or less is very quiet and still cools better than stock 6800 coolers

I can vouch for the artic cooler, just make sure you run it off at most a 5v line and not the cards fan header

the galaxy range of 6800's come with nv silencer 5's.running mine on 5v is quieter than any fan cooled card I've used before and I'm hopefully going to gt it down further.

well like Tibors said intel chips start to throttle at about 70C (unplug your fan and this is as high as it will go) you can watch this in effect using a program called throttlewatch. http://files.aoaforums.com/code.php?file=2016 if your intel chip runs hot or you have overclocked it it's worth tryi...

Have you tryed turning the AAM setting down? This nearly got rid of seek noises completely on my maxtor10

on my system the spinning noise of the maxtor is louder than a 7200.7 but the seek noise when AAM is on it's lowest setting is quieter

in fact I'm now running with a GF6800. It's close to the limits of the psu and yeah the lifespan may not be 10 years anymore but it runs and it's stable, I've had my system on without a reboot for 2 weeks with the 9800 running f@h

I've started up my antec case fan as low as 3v no problem, at 5v it's still audible but at 3 it's just about right, I might put it a little lower to fully silence it.

that psu has plenty enough power, if my Athlon 64 3400+ with 1gb ram,radeon 9800, 2 7200rpm HDD's and 2 optical drives will run then so will that system Als I don't recomend the usage of the fan only connectors. The system will strart up quieter but they go off the psu temp and so when the psu warms...

I actually meant at full load running f@h 24/7 the stock cooler isn't that loud really, it's by no means suitable for quiet cooling and I don't use it, but I've a friend who upgraded a K7 slot a and he was really pleased with the differance in noise

Your right it is just called the diamondmax10 not plus, the place I got it from mislabelled them on their catalogue

This is the drive I bought

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductI ... tID=137811

I've been building a pc based around a celeron d 320 and the asus pundit-r anyone here who owns one of these will tell you they can be quite noisy, even with q-fan enabled I've not got to work on the psu fan yet but I've had some luck getting the cpu fan to be practically silent In the pundits bios ...

the celeron d's only run in the 40's even with a stock cooler, granted this is at 2.4ghz but if you want a quiet pc then you are gonna go for the slower chips
I believe the lga 775 celerons start at 2.66ghz and this is with 1/4 the L2 cache enabled

you can get lga 775 Celeron D's so you aren't just limitted to hot P4's