In my quest for a quiet PC, I recently ran into a new speculation about noise when people tell me the northbridge fan on the DFI Ultra-D is screaming loud and will seriously hurt my computers sound level. So, after looking around I thought, maybe I can buy something passive instead and replace it. Except everyone says when you do this you get a big hit in temperature increase on that chip and especially since the DFI's chipset cooler is right under the video card (going to be getting an X800XL), with an ATI silencer.
Everyone says replacing with passive will/can reduce life of your motherboard and you will see around a 10 C increase in temperatures on an already hot chip. My first thought was I buy some sort of passive cooler and attach a fan using some metal wires so it won't be touching the heatsink, but blowing on it. Well the problem with this is: I don't know too many heatsinks you can buy that will allow the video card to go in the 16x slot.
Then I swear, I saw that Gigabyte is going to release or alreayd has, a motherboard with heatpipes, and immediately that jumped out at me, because I was brain storming if I could some how use heat pipes on the motherboard chipset. I can't seem to find the link to where I heard about the Gigabyte board, but I also don't know how well it will overclock?
I'm going to be purchasing a 3200+ Venice in a month and need a motherboard that can fit an XP-120. I would like to be able to hit 2.6 Ghz and DFI seems to be the board to do it, although this noise has gotten me worried since many people say its LOUD!
If these boards arent it, what do others suggest? I also though maybe I should wait and see what ATI introduces as far as SLI and see what motherboards come out in that aspect.
Thoughts?
Everyone says replacing with passive will/can reduce life of your motherboard and you will see around a 10 C increase in temperatures on an already hot chip. My first thought was I buy some sort of passive cooler and attach a fan using some metal wires so it won't be touching the heatsink, but blowing on it. Well the problem with this is: I don't know too many heatsinks you can buy that will allow the video card to go in the 16x slot.
Then I swear, I saw that Gigabyte is going to release or alreayd has, a motherboard with heatpipes, and immediately that jumped out at me, because I was brain storming if I could some how use heat pipes on the motherboard chipset. I can't seem to find the link to where I heard about the Gigabyte board, but I also don't know how well it will overclock?
I'm going to be purchasing a 3200+ Venice in a month and need a motherboard that can fit an XP-120. I would like to be able to hit 2.6 Ghz and DFI seems to be the board to do it, although this noise has gotten me worried since many people say its LOUD!
If these boards arent it, what do others suggest? I also though maybe I should wait and see what ATI introduces as far as SLI and see what motherboards come out in that aspect.
Thoughts?
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