Has anybody seen or used the product listed at the bottom of this page:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/ ... Akasa.html
It seems like a cheap way of taking hot air from your graphics card & dumping it outside.
What i want to know is, how quiet it is.
(am desperately looking for a quieter way of cooling my Leadtek PCIe 6600GT)
Akasa System Exhaust Blower
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frankgehry
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There are plenty of pci fan mounts to which you could connect a quiet fan.
I don't know if I would use this fan but look here:
http://www.powmax.com/
What about arctic cooling?
Look under connectors and expansion:
http://www.sunbeamtech.com/
I don't know if I would use this fan but look here:
http://www.powmax.com/
What about arctic cooling?
Look under connectors and expansion:
http://www.sunbeamtech.com/
As530, you have a similar sytem to mine: same case, PSU, mobo, I have a 3200 Winnie and fanned XP-90. I haven't yet replaced the chipset HSF and it's killing me. I'm waiting for a Thermalright NB-1, didn't want to risk with the NB47J, since I'm going to overclock. If you can tell how high your chipset temps are, please share that information.
I dont' think that the Akasa sytem exhaust blower is quiet, but maybe it can be quieted down. Are you sure you can't use a VM-101 (I plan to use it on the MSI 6600GT I have)? Or a VF-700, it's in stock at overclockers.
The AC Silencer 6 is not yet available, unfortunately. I asked about using the 5700U Silencer for the 6600GT, but the only reply I got wasn't encouraging. Funny though, the one for the 5700 can be used with the plain 6600...
I dont' think that the Akasa sytem exhaust blower is quiet, but maybe it can be quieted down. Are you sure you can't use a VM-101 (I plan to use it on the MSI 6600GT I have)? Or a VF-700, it's in stock at overclockers.
The AC Silencer 6 is not yet available, unfortunately. I asked about using the 5700U Silencer for the 6600GT, but the only reply I got wasn't encouraging. Funny though, the one for the 5700 can be used with the plain 6600...
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EricTerminator
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Akasa System Exhaust Blower
Hi !
I already used this type of PCI blowers ; I had 2 Titan TTC-003, which are PCI blowers, and they are noisy !
I had to put them on 5V in order to have some silence, and it wasn't very powerful at 5V...
Try this type of fan mounting : http://www.pcsilencieux.com/sujet-t1871.html
Or if you're an "Ikea-style components user"
, try the Zalman FB123. You can see how it looks like here : http://www.zalman.co.kr/
See you
I already used this type of PCI blowers ; I had 2 Titan TTC-003, which are PCI blowers, and they are noisy !
I had to put them on 5V in order to have some silence, and it wasn't very powerful at 5V...
Try this type of fan mounting : http://www.pcsilencieux.com/sujet-t1871.html
Or if you're an "Ikea-style components user"
, try the Zalman FB123. You can see how it looks like here : http://www.zalman.co.kr/See you
hi, do you mean the NB-1 is a better cooler than the NB47J? i didn't know that.
about VM-101, i had considered it, yes. but is it really true that it will fit ALL vga cards - incl. my Leadtek 6600GT? Also I don't know where I could buy a VM-101 in the UK.
The Arctic cooling NVidia silencer 6 is also difficult to find in the UK.
My AsusProbe reports a "motherboard temp" - it's about 32°C at idle with the NB47J and a small old AMD CPU-HSF fan blowing at 2500rpm over it (stuck with blu-tak between right side of HDD cage and right case panel). Now, i don't know if this is chipset temp or not, but it's certainly lower than before, with the stock (loud) chipset HSF.
problem with VF-700 is that I'm not sure how i would reduce the fan speed, since i think the fan connector on card looks a bit small - is it fanmate-able?
about VM-101, i had considered it, yes. but is it really true that it will fit ALL vga cards - incl. my Leadtek 6600GT? Also I don't know where I could buy a VM-101 in the UK.
The Arctic cooling NVidia silencer 6 is also difficult to find in the UK.
My AsusProbe reports a "motherboard temp" - it's about 32°C at idle with the NB47J and a small old AMD CPU-HSF fan blowing at 2500rpm over it (stuck with blu-tak between right side of HDD cage and right case panel). Now, i don't know if this is chipset temp or not, but it's certainly lower than before, with the stock (loud) chipset HSF.
problem with VF-700 is that I'm not sure how i would reduce the fan speed, since i think the fan connector on card looks a bit small - is it fanmate-able?
Well,the NB-1 is supposed to come with a Delta 45 mm 6,000 rpm fan on it, and I have a fan controller to adjust the noise. Of course, if you put a fan on the NB47J, that may be even better. I dont' dare do that though, what if it comes loose... My Asus probe reports 37C on the mobo (chipset?), 32C on the CPU - Windows idle, but the increase after FarCry isn't more than 5C. I use the XP-90 with Antec Tricool 92 mm, at 1600 rpm (the probe seems to have problems reading the speed).
You can get the VM-101 in the UK from www.microdirect.co.uk (I got mine from them about two weeks ago), also other sites sell it for ~15+VAT. But I'm not sure if you can make it fit together with the XP-120. You can get the VF-700 from www.overclockers.co.uk for ~20+VAT.
You can get the VM-101 in the UK from www.microdirect.co.uk (I got mine from them about two weeks ago), also other sites sell it for ~15+VAT. But I'm not sure if you can make it fit together with the XP-120. You can get the VF-700 from www.overclockers.co.uk for ~20+VAT.