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couple of questions and a tip to help quiet your pc

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1) What is the best heatsink/fan available for the p4? I'm hoping to find something that I can use to mount an 80mm fan on, and I was looking at the Swiftech MCX4000. Can anyone point me to any reviews of this heat sink or have any experience with it? Or any other good hs/fan combos? Preferably something not too loud, and not water cooling.

2) What is the db rating for the stock intel hs/fan? Right now it seems like that's the loudest thing in my system.

3) With the Panaflo fans (the quieter 80mm ones), can you stick a wire into the 3rd slot and use it to monitor the fan speed? I bought a few from bgmicro because they only cost $2.50 each but I'd like to be able to monitor their rpm, and these only have 2 wires but 3 slots.

ok here's a tip:

If you have more than 1 hard drive (or even just 1) then go into your computer's power management (in the control panel) and adjust it so that it powers down your hard drives after say 5 or 10 minutes. If you don't access your drive a lot then it should help to quiet down your computer. I checked mine out and found out that my two storage drives (both ibm deskstars) were putting out a lot of noise, and I don't access them too frequently. So I just set it to power down my hard drives after 10 minutes and cut back quite a bit of noise. Now I need to silence the damn intel hs/f.
 
The Swiftech is good, the Alpha is considered the best, and it's a bit cheaper than the Swiftech. Top that with a Panaflo and that's a kick-butt setup. 🙂
 
I know about the alpha's for working with an amd processor, what I was more curious about is how the latest swifty performs. If i'm not mistaken it's a much newer part, and I was unable to find it in any of those links. There was a lot of good infor there, just not the most current. Thanks for answering tho.
 
i found a few reviews:

http://www.ocaddiction.com/reviews/cooling/mcx4000_vs_pal8942/pg2.shtml

http://www.systemcooling.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=124

there was a review at frostytech i think but the article was removed. looks like the swiftech is slightly better than the alpha, but the alpha is cheaper. hmm debates debates....

I've also read that the intel hsf puts out somewhere around 40dba of noise, and while i don't think it's that high I do know that it's probably the loudest thing in my computer right now.

I'm still trying to find out if you can wire up a panaflo for rpm monitoring. I'm hesitant to just shove a wire in there because I don't wanna fry anything. anyone know if you can?

thanks
 
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