On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 21:01 +0200, b.n. wrote: > Florian Philipp ha scritto: > >> Are they silent too? I really need silent things. > >> > > Oh, you want silence? I hope you know that this is a real science? > > Yes :) But my current setup is silent enough for my needs (don't > remember what cpu fan is it, nor I want to open it now), and I'd like to > stay it that way. It is not completely silent but it gets almost unnoticed.
you might find that your current setup is silent enough because it didn't need the cooling that a modern system will. 10 years ago, my chipsets didn't even have heatsinks! I had a cpu with a heatsink only and no fan! Anyway, what I wanted to say is this: First try the system as is. Then if you have heat problems (from hard-drives, motherboard, powersupply, etc) then add some case fans. A larger, slower case fan can move as much air as a smaller faster one, but slower generally means quieter, so go for a 10cm low speed fan instead of a 8cm high speed if you can. And remember that good design can be more important that fans. Try and get your airflow right - calculate the same amount of air being blown in as out. Block off extra holes in the case, and use round ide cables, or sata, or at least cable tie up your ribbon cables so they don't block the airflow. > > I'd say if you stick with AMD, try the boxed cooler and test it. Since it's > > not a dedicated silent system, it might be good enough. If you switch to > > Intel, buy a good cooler from the beginning. my intel cooler sounds like a jet starting! -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> In the days of Old Terra there were experts in poisons, deviously clever persons who dealt in what were known as "the powders of inheritance." -- Filmbook excerpt, Royal Library of Kaitain -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
