Whats the best, silent, cooling?

Post by **o'dium** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 4:03 pm

Apart from wter cooling and all sorts...

I'm after a replacement PSU, and a new fan for my CPU. I wouldn't mind them to have LED's but thats not important. Anyways I'm after something thats as quiet as possible.

Athlon 3200 64bit cpu
GeForce6800 256 meg DDR GT

Post by **Deathshroud** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 4:06 pm

I have 4 Vantec Stealth fans in my case, and they are pretty quiet.

Post by **Giraffe }{unter** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 4:43 pm

http://www.silenx.com Has some serious fans that are near silent. I bought a crapload of these when I was trying to silence my HTPC. Their Powersupply line is prolly the most silent active cooling units I have ever "not" heard

well worth the extra bucks IMO

GO big and slow for optimal silence. I also replaced my CPU cooler with a Zalman cooler to get a larger cooling surface.

FYI even with a filter the bigger fan really sucks in the dust this is after about 2 months of running 24 hours a day.

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Post by **Foo** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 4:46 pm

You find that too? I've got 2x120mm fans in my case and I've never seen a case get dusty so quickly.

Post by **Giraffe }{unter** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 5:14 pm

I went and bought a filter and it still gets in there, just smaller particles

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 6:58 pm

aye, i've got dual 120's on the back of my box. double that with living in a dry climate like AZ and i have the most dust ever. it's a monthly PM for me.

Post by **Mr Late** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:05 pm

i cant tell mines on

its a p4 with a weak graphics card.

i vacuem it once ina while hehe i just leave it on whilst

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:07 pm

hmm.. you were playing recently

Post by **Mr Late** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:10 pm

hhmm why what?

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:12 pm

not too many fellas running around with that name. ASWP perhaps?

Post by **Mr Late** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:13 pm

no not as far as i know

Post by **Foo** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:14 pm

I wish I'd taken some images of the PCs from work last year. Being in the middle of an active steel mill, those things got dustier than you can imagine.

We had a leaf blower we used to clean them out, and we used it a couple of times a week. There are less than 20 PCs on the shop floor too.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:15 pm

Foo wrote:I wish I'd taken some images of the PCs from work last year. Being in the middle of an active steel mill, those things got dustier than you can imagine.

We had a leaf blower we used to clean them out, and we used it a couple of times a week. There are less than 20 PCs on the shop floor too.

eeesh.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:29 pm

Liquid nitrogen.

Post by **Mr Late** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:32 pm

yea after lets get capes an fly to the moon for dinner :lol:

Post by **ShortTexas** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:33 pm

Zalman CNPS9500 LED

or thermaltake xp-90/120 + a decent fan like panaflow

or Big Typhoon if you trash the fan it comes with and use a better fan

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:44 pm

ShortTexas wrote:Zalman CNPS9500 LED

yer. frostytech gave that Zalman a good review. pretty quiet too.