Enclosures and acoustic damping to help quiet them.
Moderators: NeilBlanchard, Ralf Hutter, sthayashi, Devonavar
-
ecsdude
- Posts: 18
- Joined: Fri Mar 19, 2004 8:03 pm
Post
by ecsdude » Sat Jul 16, 2005 2:59 pm
My case (Fong Kai FK-320b) has one of those fan ducts that mounts to the rear 90mm vent. I've been following Fong Kai's recommended setup, which is to have the front 120mm and the rear 90mm both blowing air into the case. The noise produced by the rear 90mm with fan duct blowing cool air onto the Athlon 64 CPU w/ its own HSF blowing air onto the heatsink is too loud. So I was wondering if I could safely disable the fan on the CPU's heatsink and just use the rear 90mm fan and duct to cool the CPU?
Thanks in advance.
-
qviri
- Posts: 2465
- Joined: Tue May 24, 2005 8:22 pm
- Location: Berlin
-
Contact:
Post
by qviri » Sat Jul 16, 2005 3:04 pm
Just download
Speedfan to monitor the temperatures and experiment away. As long as full load CPU temperature doesn't go over 55^C, you're safe.
To get your CPU to full load, use
CPUBurn.
-
BrianE
- Posts: 667
- Joined: Tue Mar 29, 2005 7:39 pm
- Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Post
by BrianE » Sun Jul 17, 2005 8:51 am
I think that IF you get confident enough in your experimenting to actually try turning the CPU fan off that you should remove the CPU fan all together, since at that point the thing will only block air blowing onto it. Good luck.