Talk to Computer Future about quiet fans for AMD CPUs - I know they had played with a few, and Graham there had figured out which ones worked best with a minimum of noise...
I got one from there and one from somewhere else, and the Computer Future one was worlds quieter... Regards Steve Dunford Matt Agnew wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 09:44, Andrew Kemmy wrote: > >>> The CPU cooler on my Duron CPU sounds like a plane taking off. >> > > Been there, heard that. I have one of the hotter-running chips out > there (Tbird 1400) and have tried three different fans. There is > definitely an inverse relationship between noise and ability to > dissipate heat. When this box is obsoleted I will try a homebrew water > cooling rig, but not with my main puter! My box is loud, with three > HDs, and, including the PS, five fans. > > Cheap fans do go bad - I've had two chipset fans pack it in, one > within hours. I confess to peeling off the sticker on one of them, > putting a tiny-tiny drop of silicone lube on it, and putting the > sticker back on. But, like another poster said, it's Not A Good Idea. > > Toms hardware guide just did a roundup of 55 AMD fan/sinks: > http://www17.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q3/020916/index.html > Don't know which of these are available locally, but I guess you could > work your way down the list... > > As a further question, who's a good local retailer for bits like this? > > Good luck, > Matt > > >
