I would like to try and make the system quieter, but I'm not ready to fork in more money for hardware... just did that (just replaced the MoBo and CPU because I fried my previous MoBo.. long story...)
my system is:
Antec P150
Seasonic s12 v.II 430 w
ASRock AliveNF6P-VSTA/GeForce 6150 SE, nForce 430
AMD Athlon X2 Dual 4400+ (runing at stock speed)
Samsung Spinpoint T166 500GB
Maxtor Diamond 9 120GB
Samsung CD-DVDWriter DL TSST Corp SHS202J
Floppy drive (no-name make, just picked it up for few bucks)
Noctua NF 120mm
Scythe MiniNinja
I use my PC for surfing the web and office applications mostly, with the occasional video encoding (which might become more frequent what with the camcorder I got recently for my bday). As I write, with the system being used only for surfing theweb, SpeedFan indicates the following:
System: 30ºC
CPU: 36ºC
AUX: 36ºC
HD0: 44ºC
HD1: 42ºC
Core: 18ºC
...not that I know what all that means...
![Embarassed :oops:](./images/smilies/icon_redface.gif)
Do I have space to reduce fan speed or lower voltage, or something? Can you suggest anything I can do through software to help me reduce the noise?