Hey all, hope you had a good Christmas, and that you had nice pressies to play with, I'm on the quest that so many of us are on, for Quietness. Now my setup is already quiet, but I want silent. Below is a full run down of what I have, but specifically, how do I make my Gfx Card quiet? I've a bog-standard GeforceDDR 32MB card and the fan on it is small & does it's job, but for a tiny fan it makes one hell of a noise. Any suggestions on how I can make it quieter and not cook itself? Apart from that it's just HSF's. The do their job, but are a bit noisy for my liking. They're 60mm Coolermaster jobbies with standard Alu heatsinks ATM. (1 with a fangrill which makes the tinyest amount more noise) I also want to add a case fan, 80mm but I took the last one out due to noise. This machine sits at the bottom of my bed, (the Activity & HD LED's blind me ATM, I smell a mod coming up there!) and as such it needs to be SILENT! for when I'm encoding stuff at night! many thanks in advance for reading my ramblings, if you have suggestions on what to get/where to get it that would be great, I'm based in Dublin so the more that's available in the one place the better. (I'd rather not spend huge money on shipping!!!) Hope you all have a great New Year, Stephenc Lian-Li PC65 with custom Blue LED Lighting (12LED's) GigaByte 6VXDC7 with Dual P3 1GHz 2x Coolermaster "Bog Standard" HSF with Alu Heatsinks 2 Standard Lian-Li Intake Fans (80mm, which when on low are almost silent) Enermax 431W "Whisper" PSU (Whisper? it's bloody silent!) 1024MB PC133 CAS2 RAM (2 x 512) Quantum Fireball 30GB HD (5400rpm, ATA66) IBM Deskstar 40GB HD(5400rpm, ATA100) Nvidia GeForceDDR 32MB GfxCard SB Live Platinum (Live!Drive with Lian-Li Modded faceplate) 3Com 3C905C 10/100 LAN (connected to LAN Modem) Philips 8x4x32x CD-RW (Stealthed) Tosiba 12X DVD (Stealthed) Iomega Zip 100 (with Lian-Li faceplate, modded) 3 1/2 Floppy (with modded Lian-Li Faceplate)
how to quieten your pc - part 1 http://www.bit-tech.net/article/25/ part 2- http://www.bit-tech.net/article/28/ part 3 http://www.bit-tech.net/article/40/ and some more: http://bit-tech.net/article/53/
For the grafix card try the silent cooler from http://www.quietpc.com which looks pretty good for lowering noise levels. Shame its pretty expensive (£25 + £5 p+p) but i guess it would be worth it if u need a silent pc (don't we all?) Or downgrade to summat like a TNT2 with just a heatsink... Charlie
