<!-- BBCode Start --><A HREF="http://www.quietpc.com/silentdrive.html" TARGET="_blank">QuietPC.com's Silent Drive</A><!-- BBCode End --> <BR> <BR>i've got a 7200 WD Caviar SE HDD. The one with the 8mb Cache. Is it going to be safe using it in one of these silent drive boxes. it gets pretty warm as i...

i finally manage to quieten my PC's enough to sleep with them on and you can't hear them with the TV on quietly in the other corner and now my monitor starts to make a very high pitched wine.
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<BR>i can't win <IMG SRC="modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_evil.gif">
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The only GFX card i've with a fan on it is my Radeon 8500 and I didn't really want to loose the fan due to cooking a £200 GFX card <IMG SRC="modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_cry.gif"> All my other GFX cards [Voodoo3, TNT2, etc] already have fanless sinks. We'll see how it goes with a quieter HSf ...

Mine doens't seem to be noisey just really hot <IMG SRC="modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_confused.gif"> It's a LG 12x8x32 one. It's not a problem. Lives on it's own in the attic of my PC12 with the DVD living at the bottom of the drive bays. <IMG SRC="modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_biggrin....

A friend's got a mini Pc lke these, but it's got AGP and does P4's and DDR I think. The Athlon version hasn't got AGP <IMG SRC="modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_cry.gif">
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A friend has their PSU and CPU cooler on his P3 1ghz and it's silent. No case fans either. Now - if only I could get this 1800xp quieter
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I haddn't heard that one before. What about placing a papst 12db fan to cool the Zalaman VGA sink. At least it'd get a bit of air to cool it without adding lots of dbs to the noise.
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i've got a 1800xp and it sits around the 40oC mark in windows and just reached 46oC after about an hour of tony hawk 3. I just swapped my £10 alu sink for a pure copper globalwin 25db one and haven't really noticed a drop in noise. PSU fans next!
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So the intake fans supply the cold air and the extraction fans take the warm air away right? So which are more important. Surely if you've got loads of intakes then the air will find a way out somehow and if you have loads of extraction fans then air will find a way in. <BR> <BR>Which are more impor...

well all being well my zalaman vga and northbridge sink's will be here tomorrow along with my silent drive. <br> <br>It seems like this silencing act is one big journey. Every time you buy another noise prevention product it brings you closer to the end of the journey. Of well. There just leaves my ...

gezzz. half the people I ask say it'll be ok and half say otherwise. Either way I've ordered one to try. my Hard drive atm isn't even warm. After several hours work it's just about warm, but not boiling hot. If it's too hot in the silent drive we'll have to improvise with a fan to cool things. 2 12d...

until I get the demel to it <IMG SRC="modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">
<br>I dunno. we'll see
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I think I'll leave the GFX card alone atm. Need to get a quieter PSU. I'm on a 350w one atm, thinking about the 300w quietpc.com one. We'll see. <IMG SRC="modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">
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Not really a message. Just thought it was worth a post <IMG SRC="modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">
<BR>The 1800xp will be silent oh yes. She will be silent - one day.
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well now that I've 7v'd the PSU fan and turned off all the case fans without much more addded heat it's time to turn off and replace that mini jet engine. It's quiet enough to leave on overnight now, but could always go that little bit quieter. It's still far from silent, but getting there slowly wi...