For those of you who have LOUD comps - do you DVD or MP3?

blstriker

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I just put in two pep66 with two nidec 60mm 25cfm 31db fans. These are relatively quiet fans, but compared to my former dual gorbs, they're really loud.

My question is, for those of you with loud computers, do you watch DVD movies or listen to music? I can't really enjoy either now with this jet engine sitting on my desk. How do you guys do it, except for turning up the volume really high.

Becuase of the noise, i'm not even considering buying a dvd hardware decoder card to go along with my slot pioneer 16 dvd because I can't stand watching a movie with a constant whirling of the fans.
 

Yoshi

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I think you need your CPU fans all the time, the heatsink alone is not enough to keep them cool. IMO you should buy recommended coolers for you CPU, nothing exotic. Buying an alpha or globalwin HSF combo with a big fan just creates a lot of noise. I use two standard Coolmaster HSF's on my PIII700@933 and Duron 800. They work fine.
 

Galileo

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The PEP66 is hard to beat. I have a 60x25 LOUD Sunon fan on mine right now and it's on a 5v/12v switch. It needs 12v to do high cpu utilization like cpuburn3 and 3dMark2000. When surfing the net, 5v is fine but then it's the *SmartFan* on my Antec 300W psu that sounds like a 747 on a long haul across the Atlantic and you have a window seat by the wing! I need to do something about that psu fan.

Back to the PEP66:
I have two much quieter generic 50x10 fans and have tried each of them on the PEP66. I was impressed that either 50x10 5Krpm(probably less) fan can cool within 2C of the Sunon at high cpu utilization and no problems. I think the PEP66 is a very efficient heatsink.
 

jsmonet

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I have a vos32, but i get a little help from my asus p3v4x. you see, asus probe can adjust the voltage to the "CPU FAN" power supply. I have a splitter, so I plug both fans (3-wire leads on both) into the splitter, which has a 3-wire connector in it as well, then plug that into the motherboard.

open asus probe, enable fan control, and it lowers the voltage until your cpu heats up.

add that to my home-made baybus, and I have control over all but one fan in my case (PS fan). hehe, that's 6 fans under my direction-I'm a control freak.

to answer the subject's question: HELL YEAH!