On Tuesday 04 June 2002 00:25, Rick Burnett wrote: > The reason I am asking about the flower fan is I don't want to go > through this again. I am okay with the HD noise and the power supply > noise, I have had them before. What changed was when I had to buy a > high powered fan for the CPU, and it is like 5 times as loud as the > other items. It's making me insane :)
Depending upon how intense you want to get with this, you can mount a big heat sink to the CPU and then use a larger fan to blow the same volume of air over the larger surface. Noise induced by airflow follows an inverse-cube rule, so reducing the air velocity by half will give you an *eightfold* decrease in noise. It's an old trick used in studio design -- that why you typically see oversized air ducts in such facilities. Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| |Frederick F. Gleason, Jr.|WAVA Radio - 105 FM |Voice: 1-(703)-807-2266 | | Director of Engineering |1901 N. Moore Street| FAX: 1-(703)-807-2245 | | |Arlington, VA 22209 | Web: HTTP://www.wava.com| |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | When your client's hopping mad, | | Put his picture in the ad. | | If he still should prove refractory, | | Add a picture of his factory. | | -- The Advertising Agency Song | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
