New ASRock Ion with nvidia 9400

Greg F. · Post by **Greg F.** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 6:15 am

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?o ... &Itemid=69

This is new to me and I haven't seen it before. Perhaps some of you have.

psiu · Post by **psiu** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 8:21 am

Well, the 60mm fan might not be too bad if it's slow enough....but the 20mm fan?

hans007 · Post by **hans007** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 12:32 am

psiu wrote:Well, the 60mm fan might not be too bad if it's slow enough....but the 20mm fan?

I have a shuttle X27 atom 945GC machine here. it has a similar 40mm fan (theres no way thats 20mm, its 40mm definitely), and its pretty quiet.

You can just barely hear it as its the only fan int he machine... but its not loud at all... maybe the same sound as a 2.5" hard drive .

pyotr · Post by **pyotr** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 7:38 am

Hmpf, I gave up on Shuttle barebones (owned two) because of those pesky 20mm fans in the powersupply. Even replacing them with Pabst fans did not help much. (Shuttle has other barebones with larger fans, but those casings are larger too).

shoarthing · Post by **shoarthing** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 4:09 pm

I have this little box: unpleasantly noisy at the lowest-speed setting in the newest v 1.50 BIOS [setting is amusingly titled: 'ultra-silent'].

Sounds like a hoover on 'Normal' through to whatever the highest-speed setting is called.

Two presumably deaf reviewers have called the thing 'silent' & the same word appears on the box.

Fans are a 20mm YS-Tech on the smaller [GPU] heatsink, & a Delta 50mm exhausting the enclosure. The latter fan, fixed direct to a stamped-out high-resistance hole-pattern in the backplate, is IMHO the problem.

The system is remarkably well-made for a relatively cheap little thing: very solid case, high-quality mobo components & so on.

. . nice; but noisy.