Dodger1
Member
I was reading my motherboard manual and it suggested connecting the chassis fans to the motherboard, when using multiple video cards, which I am. So I proceeded to hook up my front 230mm inlet fan, top 230mm exhaust fan and the rear 140mm exhaust fan to my motherboard, enabled the CPU and chassis fan controls, set their profiles to standard and booted into Vista.
WOW, I now have what I consider a silent PC, so silent in fact that at first I was positive that the fans couldn't be working. Quick glance at the front fan, it's spinning, quickly open up speedfan, all the fans are working but I can't hear them. Ok, but do they function properly when I run my i7 920 under a full load? I opened up realtemp, speedfan, Prime95 and do a quick run of Prime95, with a 99.6% load. The temps are the same as when I didn't have them hooked up to the motherboard and now I can hear the fans but there still almost dead silent; when compared to when I had them hooked up to the PSU.
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While running Prime95
Needless to say I'll keep a keen eye on this setup but I'm completely flabbergasted at the lack of noise.
WOW, I now have what I consider a silent PC, so silent in fact that at first I was positive that the fans couldn't be working. Quick glance at the front fan, it's spinning, quickly open up speedfan, all the fans are working but I can't hear them. Ok, but do they function properly when I run my i7 920 under a full load? I opened up realtemp, speedfan, Prime95 and do a quick run of Prime95, with a 99.6% load. The temps are the same as when I didn't have them hooked up to the motherboard and now I can hear the fans but there still almost dead silent; when compared to when I had them hooked up to the PSU.
Stock
While running Prime95
Needless to say I'll keep a keen eye on this setup but I'm completely flabbergasted at the lack of noise.
