I heard locally about a young lad who put some leftover floor tile that is the self adhesive kind all over inside the case of his PIII and claimed it made a huge difference! Apparently he claimed the floor tile has the composite qualities of tar paper and minerals and asphalt that helps absorb sound...

Holy crap I never thought about folding them what a great idea!

I was planning to get all my cables together for a rounded cable order, but then as I looked into my pc I thought why? I never use my 3/1/2 floppy anymore since I use a usb 64 portable storage disk and I never use my cd rom/burner unless I plan to burn a cd which is once every lunar eclipse, so coul...

Dukla will have too crack open the case again tonite and see, well I have it here, now off to Frozenpc to start looking at panflo's fans and such to get my order ready.

Thanx.

Thanks Monk now I don't feel so bad If I tear into and fan kit it and screw it to breakfest or whtat not! :}

Hi I finally got my pc torn down again to see exactly what psu I have and I don't right now have the $ to buy a new Antec. I have a premier 300w p4 ready, what it says on the side and was wondering if they are total crap or if I can modify the one output fan to a panflo and maybe run it at 5 or 7v o...

Thanks yes I will checking into getting an Antec.

Great read here so in theory one could run your psu fan at slower than 12v and get away without a burnout?

Yo Dukla after going home at lunch I see what you mean, I am just chicken to open up my psu cos of all the articles I read on shocking myself to death! :} But I am working on doing it anyways.

I got mine to only go to 1.5 vcore but it did make the psu more quiet if possible or just my mind and the temp went down ave 3c.

Yes Mike that is what I meant hehe, I think I may just save up and buy a less noise generating psu the idea of tearing into mine and getting shocked to death just does not appeal to me. Unless I can build a nice carpet muffler for it.

Stupid idea number one: What if say a person, me, just disconnected teh psu fan and mounted a panflo on the outside of the psu and cutout the grill - would this facilitate enough airflow to satisfy the psu without having to tear into the psu which is what I am DREADING TO DO and I do not right now h...

Hey Blue what do you suggest for temp controlled fans?

And do they start at 12v then drop to 5v or do you have to kit them?

Bsdgeek thanx for the UT2003 tip had not heard that now methinks to go out and buy it soon!

Ping I did get my pc to reduce the vcore to 1.5 and already my temps went down 2 c on the cpu and 4 on the case! and the psu fan seems even less loud.

I will keep on bit by bit!

Hi Dukla :D I grew up in Colorado USA worked and lived in Wyoming for a while then moved back to Colo. I have been to only 16 states in the US and to Mexico twice and once about 50 miles from Canada. No I never never ski nor have I ever met John Denver. Too many people I know have been really really...

:D Thanks for the help actually mine is an AMD 1.7 xp and I also read that you can get up to 85c safe with amd course that is not how high I want to run it though. If I replace the cpu fan with a low noise I will try n get a 3 wire so the on board mboard readings and auto shut down still work ok - a...

I wish my wife would steal my scouring pads and scrub a bit here n there

Anyways what about window screen would it let in too much dirt or would that be about right plastic or metal?

Sorry again for stupid questions here. :( I did get into my bios temperatures and voila! I can’t believe I never viewed these stats before! My cpu temp is 37 c or 98 f and my internal temp. is 25c or 75 f. whereas actual room temperature is 68 f. OK if I do get my rig adjusted per fans, suspended ha...

Thanx Ping – wow almost 20 yrs fooling with pc’s and I never knew the stuff I have learned here in the last week! Also I got into my bios and voila there is the comp system health part I have never seen before cpu = 37c or 98f and internal 25c or 78f my room temp is about 68f all the time Gotta work...

Since I think in my dense fog of a brain that the majority of what I notice in my pc is fan noise, I am pursuing to replace may bottom and psu fans with 80mm panflo’s but building a switch to go from 5v to 12v seems like a waste, if I can just buy the automatic on demand fans instead of having to ma...

:? If I can do this in the bios setup I am fairly comfee doing that but as far as adjusting any parts of the mboard as mentioned in the DIY sutt posted here, whoa, I would prolly screw it max. Recently I knew squat about cooling and fried a 1.4 evergreen cpu, well the cpu ran real hot anyways and li...

Thanks again will check out that idea on a zalman cooler - and try the panflo's as 12v first to see if they reduce noise and then install the 12v to 5v switch. Adjust cables and maybe line the case with audio silencer mat I have. I can tolerate some noise my better half adsolutely detests my Athlon ...

Thank you for your time, yes not much of a gaming rig on that vid card, but I paid less than 100.00 us dollars for it. :}

And because UT2003 requires the cd to be in operation I won't run it as a game, just sticking with good old Q3.

Thanks again for all your .02 pennies. :}

Fascinating read here folks specially the heat, gheez never knew about crt like that maybe that is why I burned out my tower 1.4 cos I had it above my monitor in a closet and after5 hrs the board fried its brains. But liek the Rad guy said nothing supports gaming so well, I have been using pcs for a...

You might check the outlet you are using and that it is grounded properly - 3 wire plug?

Or try plugging into a differetn outlet, I did this at work once and it stopped, I was pciking up apparent noise from the shop radios.

:? Plan on trying to run bigger slower fans, 5v panflo’s, in it to reduce noise and maybe insulate the case, suspend the hard drive and maybe replace the cpu fan with a bigger slower fan? I also will be placing this pc in a closet area that does not get that much venalation, except the door will be ...

Sorry for the guys post, actually I meant like all you smart people, guysngals, :} I have an oversized cpu fan over the processor and actaully in checking I have it appears only one exhaust fan in the ps and one intack below in front bottom of the case. What if I just replace the bottom case with a ...

I know this is a terrible way to respond but all these ideas seem so fascinating to me. Maybe just go buy a small swamp cooler type air conditioner and have it near YOU when your in that room or better yet do what i did DIY, I replaced the standard black hose on my swamp cooler, water cooled pads wi...

Greetings and hello: I have just spent about 4 hours just lounging over all these great posts and articles. Wow what a wealth of knowledge and intelligence you guys/gals have here. And glad to see I am not he only poor chump that is getting drove nuts by pc NOISE. Here goes my Question: I am curious...