Quieter Ice-Cube

[mooncancook]

anybody tried to modified their FIC Ice-Cube to make it quieter? please share what you did and what you used. I'm searching for a quieter CPU fan and PSU fan. any suggestion? the PSU fan is hard to find coz it's very thin.

 

[ericboo]

Fanmate's. I even took out the PS fan and mounted a quiet 80mm fan on the outside of the case with an adapter and use it to draw the air out. If you don't want to open your power supply, just get fanmates or the Compusa equivalent for the other two fans.

 

[mooncancook]

I followed what you did and took out the PS fan and installed an 80mm fan on the back. It's so much quieter. I was thinking about using a fanmate on the loud CPU fan, but i'm afraid my CPU may get too hot, so i went all the way out to replace the stock CPU cooler. i was thinking about the TMD fan cooler coz its size seem to fit well, but its noise level is rated 38db. i ended up getting the Zalman ultra quiet cooler with a 92mm fan rated at just above 20db and it comes with a fanmate. that thing is huge and took me a lot of work to put it in. well it fits! now i turn on my Ice-Cube and the difference in noise level is day and night. i finally got a quiet and cool running system. hmm... case mod is kind of fun and rewarding.

 

[nolovenohope]

Originally posted by: mooncancook
I followed what you did and took out the PS fan and installed an 80mm fan on the back. It's so much quieter. I was thinking about using a fanmate on the loud CPU fan, but i'm afraid my CPU may get too hot, so i went all the way out to replace the stock CPU cooler. i was thinking about the TMD fan cooler coz its size seem to fit well, but its noise level is rated 38db. i ended up getting the Zalman ultra quiet cooler with a 92mm fan rated at just above 20db and it comes with a fanmate. that thing is huge and took me a lot of work to put it in. well it fits! now i turn on my Ice-Cube and the difference in noise level is day and night. i finally got a quiet and cool running system. hmm... case mod is kind of fun and rewarding.

Got any pics? If so, I'm interested in looking at it!

 

[mooncancook]

let me try if i can link the pics here directly with html tags....


<img src="http://users.cwnet.com/~moonchoo/icecube1.jpg" border=0>


<img src="http://users.cwnet.com/~moonchoo/icecube2.jpg" border=0>


<img src="http://users.cwnet.com/~moonchoo/icecube3.jpg" border=0>

 

[mooncancook]

oops i guess it doesn't take the html tags. well here's a link to the html with the pics, hope it works.

Click HERE to see the pics.

 

[gychang]

mooncancook:

impressed with your fans etc. can you share the rest of the components and which brand/model of the fan is on the rear ?

how many fans all together?

gychang

 

[mooncancook]

The fan on the rear is a Cooler Master TLF-R82 series blue LED fan, 2500RPM, 32CFM, 25dB.

Including the VGA fan, there are total of 5 fans in the tiny case, but it's not noisy at all.

System Configuration:
P4-2.4G OC at 2.53G
512MB PC2700
80GB 7200RPM Maxtor HDD
16x DVD drive
Santa Cruz sound card
Radeon 9500Pro OC at 325/310

after 2 hours of MOHAA, CPU temp is about 42C and system temp is 35+/-C.