Global Win makes some 'super silent' 60mms I can recommend. I have one at about 7 v, and I have real trouble hearing it even 3 feet away. Only problem is they don't seem to sell it separately.

Intriguing. A two fan psu that runs quiet. Well, I've never. I thought the second fan was redundant, just pushing air around, not helping the total airflow. Hum. I'll go look at that article now. I'm in the situation that I want to give my older brother a quiet psu for Christmas, but Seasonic has a ...

hightower, I assume you ditched the 92 mm in your Enermax?

Ok, here is my report: Thumbs down. It has a smooth lowfrequency hum, but it's too loud as it is. It's quiet, but far from 'virtually silent'. It's definitely not SPCR quiet...the voltage lines weren't terribly precise either, and that's for a low drain system (factory passive 5200, 1 HD, 1700+ cpu)...

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Took the plunge and ordered it. I should have it on Tuesday, Wednesday latest. Will report back then.

::crosses fingers::

http://www.chill-innovation.com/chill-innovation.asp anyone tried this? I live in Scandinavia, where Super Tornados will only become available after CeBit...(yes, I asked :? ) this thing claims 17-19 dbA noise levels. I think I'll try it out, here in Denmark I can always return it within 14 days of ...

2 questions:

Is there a fan on the northbridge?

What model is your vga card?

Does anyone have any idea what the watt output under idle and load for these two cards are? I have a cunning plan that would involve not using the onboard fan at all, but am not sure my solution would be quiet enough to cool a 9800 (non pro, mind you).

thanks in advance...

Thanks for the advice, I have thought of it before, my airflow is close to non-existent...

I probably won't move the thermistor, even if I knew how to do it. The air coming from that diddly-icious Codegen PSU is fairly hot already...

Actually, I've been wanting to post about that Codegen PSU too for a while. It's really really quiet when the machine is idling. Seems I'm not barmy after all thinking it quiet. Joy. :D Right now my IV Barracuda makes the most noise. When the fan spins up on the PSU under load, however, it does make...

meh.

But it is!

Maybe it's different from Papst to Papst, maybe I've been unlucky then.

The click is also something not showing up on either dBa measurements or spectrum analysises. I have a Global Win cooler, CBK-II58, slightly undervolted, which is measured at 25 dB, on my 1700+. I also use the 12 db rated Papst 80mm fan on my other machine, a k6-2 500. And I find the Papst tic-tic-t...

hum. I'm using Steinberg's Halion softsampler in Cubase on my 1700+, works great, apparently no great load on my CPU. Can't get it to work on my k6-2 500 at all, just not enough juice. I'm also very happy I can run VST plugins, big ones too (like those Renaissance ones from Waves), without slowing m...

Ok, thanks. Have turned autoreboot off now. Do I have any chance of decifering the blue screen info myself, or could you point me to an appropriate forum? I don't suppose the M$ knowledge base is sufficient for that?

Ok, I also use MBM5 along with CpuIdle. I'll try turning that off while running CpuIdle, we'll see what happens.

Thanks for the reply!

Hi, I've been using CpuIdle until recently, under normal use it drops the temperature on my 1700+ by 19 degrees Celsius. But then I started experiencing spontaneous reboots under very certain conditions, only when running eMule and playing mp3s at the same time. I've stopped using CpuIdle now, and t...

A serious reply! :shock: People usually just make jokes about Cage. I kind of wish he hadn't wrote that 4.33 piece, since it seems to be the only piece people know... I think Cage was right when he said something like that 'silence is a turning (of the mind)'. There are few sounds I enjoy more than ...

Nope, it was crackling, so I tried three different spots, only one of which was below the VGA card. No differences in temperature. I'm willing to bet this one was a bit defective. Maybe it *was* pouring out heat, or maybe it was interfering with my mainboard in some devious electronic way? Maybe it ...

I have had problems with my Soundblaster Live sound card for a long time.

I finally decided to remove it, and, lo, my temperatures dropped by ten degrees.

Queer, ain't it? Does anyone have similar experiences?

That had to come up, didn't it?

I'm still curious...do people in this forum listen to music at all? At low volumes?

Btw, I would recommend getting closed headphones, they dampen ambient noise, computer included, by at least 10 dB. Good ones, that is.

...just wondering. He had this thing about silence, you see.

Or do you silent silent people rock hard?

Any takers?

Does anyone have experience with 60 to 80 mm adapters?

I gather they don't provide better cooling, but they might fit quieter fans.

I'm considering using an 80 mm fan with an airflow of 19 cfm on a 60 to 80 mm fan adapter to cool my K6-2 500 Mhz CPU.

Will this work?

It's a Swiftkill adapter, by Innovatek. Stupid name, but there you go.

thanks in advance

...that's a bit absolutist. Nazi Germany had laws that sent Jews, gays, communists, etc., to their deaths. Just because a state sanctions a law doesn't mean it's right. People have to work out for themselves what is right and what is not. I believe that most people, however, do see society as an ins...

Yeah, I just opened the first PSU in my life :o ...wasn't that hard. Have ordered a Pabst 12 db (can't get Panaflo here in Scandinavia). It looks easy enough. Right? Right? :P Have also ordered a 60 mm Pabst for my K6-2 500 CPU. Will be trying Zalman's Fan Mate to see how low it can go. I get the im...

yeah, I thought about replacing that fan... but that would involve me doing something. :o Anyhoo. Here's a pic of my board: http://www.gcscanada.com/products/motherboards/dfi/k6bv3_image.htm Now then, in the top left corner, is that an ATX power input alongside the AT? I might just open the damn thi...

I might add that I always run it with the case open - my cpu cooler halts after bootup 2 out of 3 times, so I have to check it when I boot up.

I thought about just stopping the PSU fan, but I am worried it might get too hot.

...what to do? Hi! New here. Just got a GlobalWin CBK58-II for my main rig instead of a Tt Volcano 6Cu, and am overwhelmed by the difference. Now then, I have an old computer I use for making music, with a noisy AT power supply. And I wonder...is it possible to replace it? I'm not into soldering. I ...