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by sheppard
Tue Nov 23, 2010 6:28 pm
Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
Topic: Puget Serenity Home Edition review
Replies: 9
Views: 5862

Re: Puget Serenity Home Edition review

Based on Puget's technical support staff's suggestion, I replaced both the front and rear case fan with the Scythe Slip Stream 800RPM 120mm Fan and under-volted them both down to 5V using a pair of Zalman Fanmate 2's. This reduced the air rushing noise sufficiently such that it is no longer audible ...
by sheppard
Fri Nov 19, 2010 10:51 am
Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
Topic: Puget Serenity Home Edition review
Replies: 9
Views: 5862

Re: Puget Serenity Home Edition review

I had antec tro-cool fans and they where very noisy .....but when i set them to low they were noisy but not THAT noisy.... Can you find whats the speed of cpu fan? I used CPU fan the other day and I think the CPU fan was somewhere below 800 RPM. With the help of a technician from Puget using the pr...
by sheppard
Thu Nov 18, 2010 12:14 pm
Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
Topic: Puget Serenity Home Edition review
Replies: 9
Views: 5862

Re: Puget Serenity Home Edition review

You might want to try booting up without your video card. My first EVGA GTX 260 had a very noisy fan and was by far the loudest source of noise. After replacement, it is only mildly the loudest :) I was shocked how quiet my system was after pulling the card--so that's why I'm suggesting it to you :...
by sheppard
Wed Nov 17, 2010 3:06 pm
Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
Topic: Puget Serenity Home Edition review
Replies: 9
Views: 5862

Re: Puget Serenity Home Edition review

what fans are in that ?....have you tried adjusting their speed ? The case fans are the one that came with the Antec P183 which are their tri-cool fans. They have 3 settings: low, medium, and high. I've made sure that both are set to low. I installed EVGA's Precision software and it gave a readout ...
by sheppard
Wed Nov 17, 2010 12:09 pm
Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
Topic: Puget Serenity Home Edition review
Replies: 9
Views: 5862

Puget Serenity Home Edition review

Based in large part on the reviews of Puget's Serenity on SPCR, I went ahead and ordered one for myself with a few changes, most notably the GTX 460 video card as I intend to use the system for mostly gaming and some work: Asus P7P55D-E Pro Intel Core i5 QUAD CORE 760 (Lynnfield) 2.8GHz 8MB 95W (Soc...