How noisy/quiet is the stock HSF on Athlon64 3000+?

[luco]

As the title says...
Will I notice it being noisy? I'm trying to have a system as quiet as possible. This will be inside a Sonata case.

No overclocking planned.

Thanks

 

[HardWarrior]

Not very noisy at all.

 

[crsgardner]

I totally disagree. The stock fan on all A64's are incredibly loud. I've been looking into replacing mine since I first purchased it.

 

[HardWarrior]

Whether it is or not is solely a matter of opinion. My CPU fan ALONE puts out 56db. The stock A64 is a toy by comparison.

 

[luco]

Let me put it this way. Will it be the loudest part in this system? Will the Sonata do a good job isolating it?

Antec Sonata
Athlon 64 3000+ w/stock HSF
Asus K8V BASIC
2 x 512MB Infineon PC3200 RAM
ATI AIW 9700 Pro
Seagate 120GB SATA
NEC 2500A 8x OEM DVD writer black

 

[crsgardner]

Loudness is relative. On my system, I have 2 120mm case fans, a power supply fan, the stock video card fan and the stock CPU fan. The CPU fan runs the fastest (5000+ rpm) and is the loudest. The stock fan CAN be readjusted to 2500 using Speedfan and the like, which makes the noise much more managable.

 

[Algere]

It's loud under full load and it's fine(to me) idle.

AFAIK the fan speeds up and slows down based on temps.

 

[HardWarrior]

Originally posted by: Algere
It's loud under full load and it's fine(to me) idle.

AFAIK the fan speeds up and slows down based on temps.

"Cool and Quiet" BIOS option, I think. But from what I understand, it isn't available on all A64 mb's.

 

[Algere]

I don't have CnQ enabled and CnQ doesn't lower and speed up a fan's RPMs. What CnQ does is change the operating frequency of the processor based on workload (i.e. A64 3000+ = 2GHz, 1.8 GHz, and 800 MHz).

ASUS's Q-Fan on the other hand would raise/lower the fan's RPMs based on temps but I don't have that enabled either.


In addition to my OP:

The max. RPM(based on load) is @ around 6K for AMD stock HS/F