Anyone know a fan that......

[barmstrong]

is 80mm or 60mm and can move 30+ CFM at around 25 db? I have a TT Volcano 6cu+ and found that the fan was too loud. I bought a 80mm fan adapter and put a silencer fan on it but my cpu is running too hot now. I tried to go for the quietest fan but i guess i sacrificed too much performance so now im looking for the middle ground. any suggestions?

also, does anyone know how many db the chipset fan on the Epox 8KHA+ puts out? mine has become really noisy lately. can you run the chipset without a fan on it and maintain stability? what is the size of this fan and is there a better one i can buy?

i probably wont be overclocking, how hot can an Athlon 1.2 GHz run stable? My comp is at about 115 fahrenheit right now and it locks up on boot sometimes.

Thanks!

 

[Lizardman]

Here is what i suggest. An 80mm ys-tec fan. The specs are 48 cfm and like 35db. My roomate has one and its very quiet plus push a good amount of air. Here is a link to where you can pick one up. svc🙂

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

I have that 6cu+ on my duron 1.2 right now, and it's way too loud. I was going to get the adapter and put a quiet fan on it. I couldn't justify the 13 bucks most places were asking for the adapter. I bought the svc gc68 for same price. It's on it's way from case-mod.com. I've heard good things about it on here. The 39dba from this thing was way way too much to handle. The fan for the svc is 80 mm, 30cfm, 28dba and only 2500 RPM compared to 39dba, 38 cfm and 7100 rpm (says 7000 on the box, MBM5 says 7180 average)

 

[ShinSa]

that 35 dba ys-tec fan is about 300% louder than a 25 dba fan he is looking for. You gotta rememebr that dB is in log base. \


this fan is exactly what your looking for.

30 CFM, 25 dBA

 

[hoihtah]

wait... if your computer is locking up at 115 F which is about 46C...
then i'd say that it's not your hsf that's causing this lock up.

list out your full spec...
starting with your PSU.
make sure you have a decent psu. above 200 on TCO
what's the core voltage?
i'd say max it out to 1.85. you can adjust this in the bios... or on your 1.2 Cpu.

if fan noise is a concern for you...
you really have two options.

1. get a better heat sink... and attach a quiet fan on it.
i got alpha with L1A. it runs quiet enough for you to hear other noise... like your harddrive. 🙂

2. go water-cooling. the best way if noise level is a concern.

 

[barmstrong]

thanks shinsa.

im running a 1.2 GHz TBird on an Epox 8KHA+ with a 350 watt enermax power supply, 2x256 meg crucial pc2100 ram, pny geforce3 ti-200, turtle beach santa cruz sound card, linksys nic, enlight midtower case.

since i took the original fan off of the volcano and put the 80 mm fan adapter and silencer on, it began to lock up on boot. seems like it happens when it is detecting my IDE drives but only sometimes. thats why i figured it was heat. i also messed with the northbridge taking the fan off then putting it back on, i dunno if that would harm it. it had always run reasonably cool and was extremely stable. guess i shouldnt have messed with it :/

 

[nexus_7]

just get the heatsink below the cu+ the volcano6c or what ever it is called. has the same heatsink jsut a quieter fan. Or you can buy a volcano5 for like 11 or what ever they cost and it uses the same fan. I use that fan on everyheatsink I have here. 2 sk-6's, a heatpipe, and my taisol. 🙂

Greg