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edit: Btw, the current fan is 10mm thick (I see the Papst is 20mm - does it come with appropriate screws?) and it blows onto the heatsink and there are 3 wires (bk/yl/rd) that plug into the mobo.
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What is the model number of that Adda fan?Sizzle wrote:That Papst fan is about the lowest rated 40 mm fan you will find as far as noise goes. Dorothy's is a two wire. I bought a couple of three wires from www.pcsilent.de and www.silentpc.de.
Now I did find a Adda model that is rated at only 10 dBa, does not push much air, but will fit with my application. Had to order them special from Mouser.
I have two of these fans and they're certainly not very quiet, they're just quieter than the typical 40mm fan. You can't make a silk purse out of a cow's ear.al bundy wrote:Thanks for that info.
I hope those Adda fans will be very quiet.
Yes they are, and these Addas are the best I've found, except for some of those 20mm thick Sunons running at 5V.al bundy wrote:Nice and quiet 40mm fans are so difficult to find...
I bought new. Yes, I know it looks like throwing good money after bad, but this is a business computer, the second computer to fail within a few days. I was loosing money while it was out of action. It’s fast enough for what we want to do. I paid £1000 for it 5 years ago, but by investing £100 it’ll last maybe 40% longer, and the PSU and HD can always be used in other machines, so I think I’m getting VFM. Plus, I can't loose the smile, after having ‘heard’ a Samsung HD for the first time...SILENTSometimesWarrior wrote:Seems a bit odd to me that you'd be going through all this trouble for a 333MHz Celeron...I would try jerryrigging a nice quiet 80mm fan so that it blows over the heatsink. Tie the fan somewhere, use a bracket or some string, whatever it takes to position the fan near the heatsink.
I'm assuming you had a spare PSU and HD lying (laying?) around, and that you didn't buy new parts for this antiquated system.
Hey Putz, do you perhaps have that backwards? For slot-1 I've always needed to push the integrated clips in (toward the processor) before removing the processor - since an inserted processor is locked to the board retention mechanism when they are pulled out.Putz wrote:...To remove a Slot-1 processor, you'll need to push the 'top' and 'bottom' clips out and away from the CPU, and pull the processor+heatsink assembly away from the motherboard...
Will do Putz. I don’t know the mobo I have, but I’ll give MM a try.Putz wrote:Your motherboard is probably too old to have temperature sensors, but Motherboard Monitor (check the links section, under Software) will probably report the values if there are indeed sensors on the board.