silent 939 mobos - nForce4 fans
Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 12:25 pm
I am trying to rig up a silent system.
- amd64 winchester 3200
- a not too expensive passive PCIe graphics card (maybe GigaByte GV-RX70P128D, Radeon X700 Pro) (Maybe in some years I will switch to a better one, which actually NEEDS PCIe..)
- no case fans, instead a powerful thermalright xp120 or xp90 which sucks in cool air (the casing gets a big hole above the cpu cooler)
- a silent but windy power supply which blows the hot air out again (I hope this works well enough)
- one IDE HD (Samsug SP1614N) (Maybe in some years, when people will use optical drives or whatever. I will change it to a SATA high speed thing...)
What I need now is a good mobo to put everything together. I waited for the nforce4 ultra, but unfortunatly, as you may have noticed, all boards have this ugly onboard fans. 150 Euros for silent power and cpu cooling - all this to hear a nforce fan screaming at the end? Certainly not.
Yes, maybe someone can exchange the fans with heatsinks. But it seems nowbody has done it yet - or still has a working PC to report his experiments ;-) And I haven't found any decibel or Sone tests of the new mobos anywhere. Most Silent-PC sites still test with 754 sockets anyway. So any recomendations? Should I take a k8T890 board?
I do NOT need SLI, wireless LAN and overclocking tools.
I want onboard LAN, good onboard sound, PCie, SATA, USB2, FireWire.
I want it stable.
And I want it now! :-)
Thanks for any advice!
Godot
- amd64 winchester 3200
- a not too expensive passive PCIe graphics card (maybe GigaByte GV-RX70P128D, Radeon X700 Pro) (Maybe in some years I will switch to a better one, which actually NEEDS PCIe..)
- no case fans, instead a powerful thermalright xp120 or xp90 which sucks in cool air (the casing gets a big hole above the cpu cooler)
- a silent but windy power supply which blows the hot air out again (I hope this works well enough)
- one IDE HD (Samsug SP1614N) (Maybe in some years, when people will use optical drives or whatever. I will change it to a SATA high speed thing...)
What I need now is a good mobo to put everything together. I waited for the nforce4 ultra, but unfortunatly, as you may have noticed, all boards have this ugly onboard fans. 150 Euros for silent power and cpu cooling - all this to hear a nforce fan screaming at the end? Certainly not.
Yes, maybe someone can exchange the fans with heatsinks. But it seems nowbody has done it yet - or still has a working PC to report his experiments ;-) And I haven't found any decibel or Sone tests of the new mobos anywhere. Most Silent-PC sites still test with 754 sockets anyway. So any recomendations? Should I take a k8T890 board?
I do NOT need SLI, wireless LAN and overclocking tools.
I want onboard LAN, good onboard sound, PCie, SATA, USB2, FireWire.
I want it stable.
And I want it now! :-)
Thanks for any advice!
Godot