Check out my BIG fan

[zuffy]

This is my secondary PC that I screw around with. It's a Celeron 400Mhz OC'ed to 450MHz with 256MB RAM (used to be 500MHz in Windows 2000 but Windows ME don't like 500MHz I guess). It's probably too hot since I have no thermal tape or thermal compound between the cpu and heatsink I have two 4GB Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm SCSI hard drives which generate too much heat so here's my solution:

my second computer

I setup a switch so I can switch between 7v and 12v for the fan if it gets too noisy It's a Nidec fan I took off from a Compaq Proliant 1600 server.

 

[kyoshozx]

You must get alot of dust inside the case. How loud is it?

 

[Tetsuo316]

two points:

1) i like that enlight 7237 - i have one myself.

2) for god's sake man! get some crappy radio shack thermal compound or something! don't do that to you cpu!

 

[zuffy]

Actually, no dust at all. May be it's the dust-free spot in my room

I thought this monster would be loud as hell but it's not. I say it's probably 30-32db since some of 80mm fans are louder. Once I switch to 7v, all I hear is the 80mm Silencer fan I have for the CPU.

Don't freak out... my thermal compound should be arriving soon May be I can get back to 500MHz then.

 

[zuffy]

I forgot, my SCSI hard drives is the loudest... I need to quiet those monsters down.

 

[rifken1]

I have one of those too. It is really quite, cpu fan is louder than it. Plan on changing that one to water very soon.

I have it sitting next to my cards in my box. Keeps them cool.

 

[zuffy]

Got my thermal compound from Subzero, rounded my scsi cable & floppy cable, tied all my power cables together... now my PC is running @ 500MHz with no problems. The CPU actually runs cooler now than when it was @ 450MHz. BTW, I did have a thermal pad on the heatsink... just didn't realize it.