I know it is not as quiet as water cooled. But if noise bothers you and you don't want to deal with water cooling do as I have done! You will
not regret it!
My system before project:
Upgraded system:
Man is this system quiet! You cannot hear it standing right outside my office door. The loudest thing in my case now is my WD1000BB hard drive. Well that and my CD-RW when it is spinning. In my old system I never noticed the CD-RW spinning, It was that loud!
Total price for quieting my PC was $120.
Warwick
not regret it!
My system before project:
[*]XP 1600+ OCed to 1774.5Mhz 169FSB stock voltage with a SVC GoldenGate 40 (too loud)
Running Prime95 for 12+ hours produced a temp of 42C
[*]HighPower 330 power supply (loud)
[*]GeForce3Ti200 OCed to 220/500 with a crystal orb (6000rpm, too loud)
[*]3 old 80mm case fans (too loud)
Upgraded system:
- XP 1600+ Oced to 1764Mhz 168FSB stock voltage with a SK-7 with a Panaflo L1A (silent)
- Running Prime95 for 12+ hours produced a temp of 46C, Not bad!
I had to drop my FSB from 169 above to 168 to get Prime95 to run
12+ hours without any errors.
[*]TruePower 430 power supply (very quiet!)
[*]GeForce3Ti200 Oced to 220/500 with crystal orb (3000rpm, quiet!)
I hooked the crystal orb up to the "Fan Only" header on the TruePower 430.
Works wonders for the sound of the orb, and I have no Graphic lockups or glitches!
[*]3 Panaflo case fans (VERY quiet!)
Man is this system quiet! You cannot hear it standing right outside my office door. The loudest thing in my case now is my WD1000BB hard drive. Well that and my CD-RW when it is spinning. In my old system I never noticed the CD-RW spinning, It was that loud!
Total price for quieting my PC was $120.
Warwick