My heatsink/fan is too LOUD, what should I do???

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bgskier

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Please give me some advise, I bought the globalwin FOP 32 heatsink/fan for my 1.2 ghz t-bird, which I am not overclocking, and it is just TOO LOUD in my Antec 1040SX Case. Does anyone know of a heatsink/fan that will work with my chip and not be soooo loud, its to the point its giving me massive headaches. Please Help!


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MrWhite20

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I used to overclock but not anymore, I have the globalwin fop-38, and Im fed up with the noise, it's soooOOOoooo loud, I hate it.
 
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CTweak

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If you want to throw some $$ at the problem, you could water cool. Check out Koolance or Aquastealth for options. Or replace the FOP32 with a Tasoli (sp?) heatsink, which are supposed to work well and do it quietly.
 
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darth maul

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I find it funny when people say their heatsink is to loud, not sure how a lump of metal can be to loud, its the fan that is to loud...just get a quiter fan then what you have now.
 
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AG73

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darthmaul-
can you recommend a quieter fan with equivalent cooling power as the fop32's stock YS tech fan?
thanks
AG
 
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nortexoid

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the thermaltake volcano II performs on a par with the fop32-1, perhaps slightly better..

the fan is ~4k rpm and is WAY quieter...it's also one of the most inexpensive high performance hsf you can buy
 
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AG73

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i want to keep my fop-32 heatsink but attach a quieter fan. Thermaltake's website says the volcano II's fan puts out 36cfm (fop32 is 26cfm), and is 31.5dBa (slightly better than fop32's 36dBa). I'll check out the thermaltkae volcano fan but may also check out other quieter fans with high cfm's.
thanks nortexoid :)
AG
 
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RustyNale

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I have a thermoengine, stuck a YSTech 60mm fan on it, did a good job of keeping it cool-29C idle and 46C under seti@home overnight. The fan was only a week old and the bearing went out. Was about to order a new fan when I saw an article here about mounting a 80mm case fan on it from 3dfxcool--almost as much air as the delta 7k and quieter than the YSTech I had on. I thought "I can do this, and I just happen to have one of those fans here!", a hour later I had 4-1" long metal tabs with a hole at each end, mounted them to the 80mm, took off the bad fan, screwed the big fan onto the heatsink, plugged it into the 3pin mobo cpu connection and--works like a charm! Right now I'm running at 30C, and is much quieter. I'm getting 5000rpm out of it. I haven't had the chance to put it under load, going to do that directly.

Just ran seti@home for 30 min, and did a sisoft sandra cpu benchmark ( 15 runs), am still running seti@home as I type this and my temp is only 46C.

In answer to your question, AG73, yes and I love it!

 
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EvilDonnyboy

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The YS tech fan isn't loud at all. I just borrowed my friend's VOS32, with dual YS Tech 27cfm/4500rpm fans. It's definatly louder than my grob, but it isn't any more annoying. The noise isn't a scream nor a grinding sound, but rather a gentle hum and slight wooshing from the airflow. Maybe ur YS tech could use a good lube up.
 
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AG73

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maybe i'll try the lube first, then if that's no good i'll try to swap fans but keep the fop32 heatsink. is wd-40 or tri-flow good?
thanks
AG
 
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Beater

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This is making me nervous. I ordered an Fop38 but changed to a 32 when I read about the noise. Now from this thread I see the 32 must be pretty loud too! Are we talking a lot or a little louder than the typical power supply fan:(?
 
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AG73

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Beater-
the fop32 isn't terribly loud at all. Just not nearly as quiet as my old socket 7 p266 sytem which had just the dinky CPU fan and the power supply fan. I miss the near-silence of my now ancient p266. My 1ghz athlon, being the nuclear reactor that it is, obviously demands greater, and hence noisier, cooling. The fop-32 is an excellent hsf which is probably average in noise when compared with most other good hsf's out there. Still, i think i'll tweak mine by adding an 80mm fan. Beater, btw make sure to pre-bend the fop32's mounting clip before hooking it to the mobo. it's very, very stiff :)

later
AG
 
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MasterTech

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I feel for you really I don't.
Just another tally to add to my why not to buy AMD philosophy.

Fan noise due to excessively high speed RPM or cheap o third party fans is really funny. Since the Athlon produces so much more thermal energy then an equivalent P3 it becomes much more of a challenge to keep it cool.

Deal with it.
 
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MasterTech

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"MasterTech = troll"

-YOU = FOLLOWER. Do you fit in more by using lingo created by someone else? If that is important to you them please do so, fit in. Otherwise kepp the lingo going you rebel.

"Hmmm. Seems the P4 also requires huge amounts of cooling."

-We have a winner. If you read carefully I wrote P3.
 
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