- Aug 27, 2001
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Well, it's been a while since I have visted and really participated in these forums but nothing brings a man back like problems with their comp equipment. At Christmas I built a new machine including a DFI lanparty Ultra-D mobo, Opteron 165, and 7800GT. Because this build was destined to be as silent as you could make an air cooled rig I put alot of thought into it. Everything from under-volted rifle bearing fans to replacing the chipset cooler was done. It's that last part that is now causing me problems.
For the first few months the Evercool VC-RE worked very well to keep my Nf4 chipset "cool", it maxes out at about 53 C under heavy gaming. While this seems hot as most of you know these chipsets can take alot of heet before they have issues. My problem is that recently my evercool began making noises. Since the begining I have used the included mobo monitoring program (smartguardian) to drop the RPM's on the evercool to just under 3000. This kept it so quiet that it could not be heard over the whisper of my Yate-Loons running at 6v. Now that it is making so much freaking noise I have lost that whole silent pc thing.
Is there anything I can do, short of replacing the fan, that would quiet this down? I can't see an easy way to apply teflon grease as there is no access point on the top of the fan. If there is no way to repair it, has anyong had sucess cooling this chipset passivly without cranking the intake fans in the case and heavily moddifying a zalman?
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
-spike
For the first few months the Evercool VC-RE worked very well to keep my Nf4 chipset "cool", it maxes out at about 53 C under heavy gaming. While this seems hot as most of you know these chipsets can take alot of heet before they have issues. My problem is that recently my evercool began making noises. Since the begining I have used the included mobo monitoring program (smartguardian) to drop the RPM's on the evercool to just under 3000. This kept it so quiet that it could not be heard over the whisper of my Yate-Loons running at 6v. Now that it is making so much freaking noise I have lost that whole silent pc thing.
Is there anything I can do, short of replacing the fan, that would quiet this down? I can't see an easy way to apply teflon grease as there is no access point on the top of the fan. If there is no way to repair it, has anyong had sucess cooling this chipset passivly without cranking the intake fans in the case and heavily moddifying a zalman?
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
-spike