Well I put back the Evercool into my case. This is what I found, the SOnata 120mm fan can be heard even at 5volts. Not so much air noise, but a sorta muted drone. It will always spin up even at under 5volts - at least mine does The Evercool has more turblence noise, but it also moves more air and ha...

Hmmm The Antec Sonata fan seems a lot more audible to me from where I sit...

Sorta faint droney boom. I never really noticed the Evercool fan at all running at low RPM. I think I will switch back and confirm my suspicions

Well I don't get that with hyperthreading turned off.

CoolColJ - What mobo are you running? Asus P4P800 deluxe, which I see you also own :) The P4P800 and P4P800 Deluxe under report the CPU temps by around 7-9 °C from most other P4 boards (Abits excluded), that's why your temps are so cool. When I saw your idle temps of 25°C I had a strong suspicion t...

I have an Evercool 120mm Aluminium fan :) I had this hooked into the motherboard and then into the Zalman fan controller, since it has a 3pin header. But I just swapped back the stock Sonata 120mm to compare. I must say your 3.8 oc and temps are quite impressive... btw, are you the bball player that...

I think it's a waste of time myself.

I run a single 120mm fan on my heavily overclocked system in my Sonata, and have no cooling problems. but I have an exceptional cool running system/CPU

This single 120mm moves a ton of air as is.

lol i hope ur joking. I was thinking I could use one of the 120mm panaflo oem fans i have and cut a hole on the side so that cool outside air blows across it, but that is last resort, as i dont want to cut another hole in my pretty new case. I'm serious :) Monitors are analog things, the vertical s...

Let the monitor warmup first and then adjust your monitor

if both sides are getting warm then it's working fine.
The heatpipe is doing it's job transfering the heat to the backside

I have run my Antec 120mm fan fine with the Zalman multi-cable that came with my ZM80c optional fan, basicly a cable swap as detailed above. I also bought a 4pin to 3 pin cable and now run it at 5 volts fine with my Zalamn Fan controller. Still moves a ton of air at this voltage. I might rig up my s...

Well I finally have a 4 pin to 3 pin cable so I can finally control my Antec Sonata stock 120mm fan with my Zalman Fan controller. With the Evercool and Antec fan at 5volts. the Evercool is louder, mostly air rushing turbelence sounds - air rushing roar. But when I put both against my face, the Ever...

CoolColJ - What mobo are you running? Asus P4P800 deluxe, which I see you also own :) I have screenies to prove that I indeed have booted at over 3.8gigahertz 8) http://www.members.optushome.com.au/coolcolj/Photos/CCJ_3.855g_MaxSpeed@2-3.gif this is what I normally run it at when I'm rendering http...

CoolColJ, May I ask how you've been able to keep such an oced CPU so cool? Or are those temps from the "case" diode and ambient room temp? If they are your CPU and case temps, I'm just utterly confused on how my lower power system consisting of a 2.53 P4 and Radeon 9200 has higher temps compared to...

I don't agree, my system is a P4 2.8c overcloked to 3.5g, HT on and all, and it runs cool and quiet in my Antec Sonata, add a RAdeon 9800 to thata s well. I can't hear it at 3:30am from it's position under my desk to the right of me. What are your temps at idle and load? Maybe your definition of "c...

I don't agree, my system is a P4 2.8c overclocked to 3.5g, HT on and all, and it runs cool and quiet in my Antec Sonata, add a RAdeon 9800 to that as well. I can't hear it at 3:30am from it's position under my desk to the right of me. I'm CD masteirng engineer as well so I know what quiet means to m...

ehhe

yeah Brisbane stay around the same temps all year round.

Yep Rugby World Cup into day 2 now

we have both :) We do have seasons here, it goes from cold to very hot and dry. Summer is in december and winter in the middle of the year - yeah it is weird :D It actually hit 8 degrees this morning - brrrr. Probably at 12-14 right now. CPU idling at 25 degrees, MotherBoard at 23 at the moment. Bot...

Well Panaflos are fairly expensive here.

well mine does - I can hear it, stock 120mm fan that is

From the back you can definitely the air rushing sounds.

Henrik wrote:

CoolColJ wrote:Ambient is around 15-17 degrees.

Where are you/your PC, in a fridge or something?

Sydney Australia! Remeber this celius degrees

It's been very cold the last 2 days even though is supposed to be spring now

hmmm did you read? :) read this thread, and these http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=7137&start=30 http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=7566 http://www.silentpcreview.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=83&page=1 if you only have 2 wire...

well mine is more than a couple of degrees cooler! :) right now my CPU is idling at 27 degrees! And it's overclocked from 2.8 to 3.5 gigahertz. Motherboard is at 26 degrees. Ambient is around 15-17 degrees. And all my fans are running at 5 volts and under in my Sonata. PSU modded with Pananflo M 80m...

You may have a certain part of the thermal control out of spec at a guess?

No. I used the 4 pin molex plug but I reversed the red and orange wires in the female molex connector (I left the male pass-through unchanged as I don't use it). This mod is easily done but takes some patience as it can be a little bit finiky to extract the pins from the conenctor. If you want to u...

Get an Antec, remove the 92mm fan and put in a 80mm M series Panaflo in place of the 80mm Judging by a similar mod I did to my Sonata's Truepower 380s PSU, this is more than quiet enough. I can't hear my system from where I sit at 3:30am at night! No whine either and I have a beefy system P4 2.8c ov...

Inexplicable wrote: Not only does it do that but it does it with a dramatic pause, pulling back the throttle for a couple of seconds of anticipatory silence before flooring it in an extasy of rushing air and raging power.

haysdb wrote:. It's even a 3-wire fan with RPM monitoring, an added bonus.

Well then why choose a panaflo?

but they still make a lot of turbulence noise like the Sonata's...

Hmmm I have a P4 2.8c that is overcloked. Anyway it idles at pretty low temps, and it made me wonder, because according to Asusprobe and MBM it idles at around 30 degrees in XP, but when in the bios page the temps are around 40 degrees. But when I boot into XP, the temp starts at 40 degrees and then...

It has already been discussed a bit on this forum before. It has been reviewed on a few sites as well. This is a good place to look for heatsink comparisons: http://www.overclockers.com/articles373/ (scroll down to the yellow part of the page). The SP-94 is currently the king of the hill with a C/W...

But it does make me wonder why people prefer cases with 120mm fans since a case with 2x80mm M series Panaflos @7volts would be much quieter and move just as much air as a single 120mm fan @ 5 volts. I'm not sure this is true. Larger fans should produce less noise per cfm if they are properly design...