sven, for 99.9% of the PC community, the PSU is louder than the Zalman at 5V :) Maybe on your side of the ocean ... :wink: I know many people in Silentharware-forum , who were not satisfied with the noise level of this cooler @5V. About 20 persons mounted the modification into their zalman. But thi...

http://cpu.rightmark.org/products/rmclock.shtml I have an AMD64 3200 and a motherboard that should support "cool'n'quiet" but it doesn't seem to work. There is an easy way around that: RMClock this if a blessing from heaven! underclocks my 2.2ghz to 800mhz and from 1.5 vcore goes to 1.0 causing it ...

DonP wrote:AMD bought the Geode processor designs from SGS-Thomson (I think!!).

This might be right for the slower versions of geode, the 1 and 1.4GHz versions are Thouroughbred-CPUs which are running at lower frequency and Vcore. If you don't believe, just compare the cpuid - it's the same.

Hi FRIDAY, auch mal in Amiland unterwegs :wink: Gruss, NoNoise The BOX you refer to does not really look like it would be effective. It looks like the drives would be far too solidly clamped to the case. That is why the decoupling of the bitumen-box with the above mentioned soft rubber-metal decoupl...

Nice Job

My mod only covers point 1 and 3 - cheap and easyly undone.
Yours is the fast and easy way.

But one question i have. Are the fan screws touching the metal bracket or are they fully decoupled (bigger hole than original, ..?)

@ MikeC I'm glad, that at least one tester can understand my problems with the Zalman. :D All reviews, i read, in Germany are very positive about this cooler. Everyone says it's nearly inaudiable @5V - and no problems with the vibrations mentioned. :cry: To your solution of fan-decoupling: I prefer ...

Because my Zalman7000A @5V was the loadest part in my silent-pc, i decided to decouple the fan in this cooler. Take a look, if you want to silence your Zalman:
http://www.silenthardware.de/forum/inde ... topic=2309
(Scroll down for the english version)

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