The past days have been real hot at work so I bought a USB-fan to cool myself

Problem is the el-cheapo thing makes a horrible racket. Who could suggest a quiet USB-fan?

wsc wrote:maybe you should look at Logisys if you are dumping the cheap part... fanless low profile pentium M systems...

interesting site, but like wsc said... "pick 3"... those system don't really have the 'fast' part... fast as in gaming...

wsc wrote:quiet, small, fast, cheap ....

pick 3

good point, thinking about it and lets dump the "cheap" after all it is an investment

Would someone have some more information on the iDEQ 330P and the noise it produces?

It looks like a well thought out design.

http://www.biostar.com.tw/products/bare ... index.php3

http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews/re ... 9JRD0xMDQ1

wow, thats indeed one expensive barebone

looks bigger than it is on that picture to... oh well the search for a quiet, fast, small system will go on...

Can anyone tell me what case this is?

Arctic Cooling is releasing a new case, the Silentium... What do you think of the PSU-setup and the case in general?

http://www.bostar.cz/case.htm
unfortunately it's in Russian.

I wonder if the HDD's would be cool enough if you place them above the PSU... maybe if there would be a slight airflow it would probably do the trick and keep the PSU airpath clear.

But man, what an ugly case

I have a Q-Technology powersupply and it's good quality and indeed silent.

why reduce speed? why keep it noisy if slower works just as well?

Yes, the tool works. I've been using my two DM+9 SATA drives with AAM enabled for some time now. No problems whatsoever. I've even learned not to strain my ears trying to hear the seeking. :D great that'll solve the single drive sound issue... Did you put your drives in RAID? it's a FastTrak chipse...

I own three of these drives, SATA models...
three questions:
Can they be AAM enabled with the Hitachi feature tool?
Will it destroy any data if I do so?
Two of the drives run in RAID, is RAID a problem to enable AAM?

Thanks!

Thank you Ralf,

That really helped a bunch. It also ends this part of my quest for silence

1.525 is stock, so you're not getting much of an undervolt there. is'tn the stock is 1.555 ? the range i can choose: 1.525 to 1.875 I don't know for sure but 0.03 does indeed seem like nothing much as a range to change voltages... therefor I wonder if there are bios versions that have more range li...

I've been reading some stuff about undervolting, that it could be a great help in keeping things cool. I'm wondering, my fellow P4C800 Deluxe owners: I have set the voltage and fsb timings to manual. I have then set the CPU voltage to 1.52 (lowest setting possible). Asus probe still reports around 1...

It's sure a good way to prevent people from getting some sleep at lan-parties for people with "powerfull" computers

Go with Acoustipack Deluxe, you won't be disappointed... I have it installed for a week now and it really helps... it's worth it's price.

I don't have any experience with the panaflo's. had papsts previously. But nonetheless, I'd say the acoustifans are excellent, they come with rubber gommets and a voltage-changing-cable (whatever it is called). the thermometer really does change the fans speed in a range of about 500,600 rpm in my s...

I've put the fan in vertical position and tidied the cables up (as good as I could). the temps are now good to live with... Under load: CPU 51°C VGA 54°C HDD 40°C Under idle: CPU 36°C VGA 43°C HDD 36°C I'm now a happy man, the next step will be replacement HD's, but that's only going to happen in a ...

I realize I blocked the front-intake. So contrary to what I have read about the dBox' front intake being pointless since it has a control panel in front of the intake, the intake DOES make a great deal of difference. But again, I'm not going to open up the intake again if there are other ways. So fi...

The case is there was a front-fan before I put in the acousti-stuff... but since it's the dBox case I have and everybody kept telling that fan isn't able to pull in much air at all, I just covered the front up with acousti-foam to silence the loud HD's... (not replacing them anytime soon, to costly ...

Yesterday the goods arrived... The PC is very quiet now... however... I've just done some encoding tot test... these are the resulst under load before and after the new stuff installed. CPU LOAD BEFORE: 52°C AFTER: 60°C (PC Probe reports a lot less, about 8°C less) HD TEMPS BEFORE: 34°C AFTER: 43°C ...

I don't have any cutting tools or skils unfortunately... + it would require to remove everything from the case... I figured this sollution would work well. Would you really think the flow would be restricted? I figured two PCI-slots should do the trick? no? Only thing I need then is some sort of fil...

actually it blows in, since the front fan has very little intake (it's a dbox case)

I know... dust... therefor see my other topic in CPU cooling, I'll change that later, but still have the back pci slots as intake (hopefully filtered)

In the picture below you can see my current setup that's too loud for me. Temps are acceptable CPU idle temp is 40°C (a bit high) (load = 54°C). I currently pull in fresh air from the back (intel 80mm stock @ 5v) and to a much lesser degree from the front (papst 80mm 1500rpm). I have a Zalman 400A t...

I use my back PCI slots to cool the VGA-card with a Zalman heatsink. I used the stock Intel CPU cooler at 5v, it hangs at the outside... it works really great for me. http://users.pandora.be/maartenonline/truyenstest/Koele%20PC%20004.jpg http://users.pandora.be/maartenonline/truyenstest/Koele%20PC%2...

The Zalman psu is a good quality unit I know it's a good quality, and it's not even a year old either. Nontheless, the fan has been making noise from the start it has starting to make some new ticking sound in the last month... Therefor I am considering changing the fan, but by the looks of the uni...

Replacing a fan in a psu can range from trivial, if it's a standard size fan connected to a standard 3-pin header, to not so easy Thank you for your comment, I'm pretty sure that i'll order the Acoustipak Deluxe set. The fans also look like great quality. But for the PSU concern, the PSU I've bough...

I've been looking for some quiet-pc products, seems none is available in belgium and Q-Technology will deliver them even to belgium they say... I was wondering is anybody has had any experience with them? This is the site: http://www.qtechnology.net The products I'm interested in are the Acoustifans...

that's normal, the sticker is used to keep the core on or it will fall off