The fan controller is triggered by heat, normally the heat generated by the load on the PSU. However room and internal case temperature can be a factor. Another issue is that the Seasonic X series use the casing of the PSU as a heatsink to cool the output components. This cooling is compromised by ...

I recently bought the SS-660XP2 and I am as disappointed as you about the noisy fan. Fortunately I only have a Core I5-4770S and a Radeon R7 250 Passive so I could switch to Hybrid mode and the fan almost never kicks in. Not even then playing a light game, like World of Warcraft. But for me, fanless...

Mainly used for desktop job, photo editing and casual gaming Corsair Obsidian 250D mITX Asus Z87I-PRO WiFi Socket 1150 miITX Intel Core I5-4770S TDP 65W Noctua NH-L9i LP Seasonic Platinum 660W Modular Corsair Vengeance low profile DDR3 2x4GB Sandisk Ultra Plus 2 x 250GB XFX Radeon R7 250 GDDR5 Passi...

SS can do a lot to improve it Well, you could start with improving the configuration. I can see four fans all aimed towards the CPU and none for the GPU. I would have tried something like this: 1. Throw out that center fan, does it really add anything but noise? 2. Replace the bottom fan with one o...

It's alot of fans in your test configuration. I get a feeling that some of them are just passing air to the next one :?. I recently used this case for a system that mainly will be used playing World of Warcraft and i only needed two fans, both running at 5V (Fan Mate on lowest) and both acting as ex...

I have Asus P5K-VM motherboard and the harddrive is set to first boot device.
Still, it seems like bios, during post, always looks for a bootable CD in the DVD drive, hence some "screech" noise can be heard at every boot time.

Unfortunately, it's only small one way. Like many Lian Li cases, it's 49 cm deep.

A year ago, I was looking for a nice mATX case too. However, I eventually realized that there aren't so many of that kind to choose from. I finally ended up with the same case as Nameheul, Silverstone TJ08, and I agree, it's a nice case, but it has some flaws: -I wouldn't call the build quality exce...

I recently bought a LG monitor that was terrible noisy, at all settings of brightness, other than 100%. It was also extremely bright (400 cd/m). There was no way, I could get decent contrast and colors, by blocking all that waste brightness, neither with VGA brightness nor monitor RGB settings. I ha...

Whas it easy to mod? The hardest thing is to find that last screw, hidden under the Void Warranty label :D In my opinion, the most convenient way to do the swap (< 250W): 1. Remove the old fan, pop of the fan header or simply cut the wire. 2. Mount a Noctua 1200rpm, route the cable outside the PSU ...

Noctua 1200rpm in my HX520 works fine too. I use less than 200W, and the PSU fan control stays stable at 3.8V.
Of course, if you are going to put your PSU under heavy load, you should perhaps chose a 1600rpm fan, to be on the safe side.

if you just hold the fan with cable ties there is still electricity going to the fan motor, this is converted to heat and will eventually burn out the windings. Yes, and it will block some airflow. the engineers at corsair are not stupid. they will look at the unit, calculate how long the caps etc ...

Any of the PSU:s you mention will do fine, but don't take for granted, that you won't end up, swapping fan in the new one too.
I have done that in one Seasonic and two Corsairs, because they showed up to be the noisiest part in my setups.

I would remove the fan rather than stop it with cable ties. If you have some other exhaust in your case, cold air will be sucked in through the PSU. That should be enough for 100W. I don't use SpeedFan, but I think it only can control fans connected to the motherboard. The PSU fan has a two pin conn...

I must admit, that I don't understand all this, always thougth that binary numbers, within a computer were very stable. Never mind if the voltage was 4.6 or 4.3, it still was a one. I am thinking of the processor running programs stored as numbers in system memory. If those numbers weren't stable, w...

ACook wrote:why the obsessio with dust?

I have a sort of fine, sticky dust, coming in from the street.
It can't just be sucked or blown away, must be brushed or wiped.
And it is very visible on that black paint.

Postscript - War lost - Big Boy back in business I had to open the case after two months, in order to replace a broken DVD burner. And what did I find? Dust! Still not that much, but enough to make the expression dustproof disused. So, I have, more or less, given up that silly war against dust. Bec...

You have been discussing exhaust. What about intake, is there enough fresh air coming in?

Really? If you turn down brightness?

The same thing with my 3-4 years old 20" Dell with S-IPS panel. Totally silent, it doesn't even have any regulation of brightness, lowering RGB channels to 70% was enough to get a perfect picture. I think the problem came with these extremely bright screens. They made it necessary to put in hardware...

I wouldn't trust Prad too much. I did read their review of the LG W2600HP-BF, before I ordered it and they wrote this about noise: The 26-inch model does not function entirely silently: at maximum brightness, a slight buzzing and a humming tone can be heard at the back of the monitor. The volume of ...

That one looks nice. H-IPS panel?
Unfortunately, I have never seen it around here, there I live.

Perhaps, this is out of topic, but the last weeks, I have been listening to several very noisy monitors. I had other use for my four years old Dell 2005FPW (with a very nice S-IPS panel), so I started looking around for something slightly larger. Because TN-panels with their limited viewing angles w...

Calgarian: Thanks. Actually, I have considered to move the VGA fan to the position you are suggesting. Perhaps, I will give it a try, in the future. You are quite right, the back fan is questionable. It doesn't add much to cooling, but the filter in front of it does add noise. The shelf is made of s...

Davideo2006: Thanks for all your suggestions. As you say, so many options. I did consider many of them, but finally, I decided to try positive airpressure, and I doubt that's possible with the big fan acting as exhaust. It's a great pity, but the Big Boy is disqualified, for the moment. However, I w...

Yea, I kind of like fans :D Besides, the double dustfilters are very restrictive, I have to compensate for that. I will give this configuration a few months, to see if it can keep dust out. If so, I am happy to pay a couple of db:s for a computer free of dust. However, I am afraid that dust, in the ...

2008-10-12 Update posted: War lost - Big Boy back in business. Summer goes to an end and with fall comes this irresistible desire to build a new computer. The main goals this time: - The last battle against dust wasn't a total success, so I will give it a new try, using positive airpressure. - Sile...

Why don't you keep the top fan and move the fan to the Ninja's bottom? I'll definitely give it a go. I checked it out when I got home last night and the NB heatsink isn't in the way. It will be right up against the edge of the fan which is no biggie, except possibly for airflow over that HS. When y...

This one, Silverstone NT06
You can mount a fan on it (103 mm w fan, can be a tight fit).

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