anyone tried using the Zalman VGA HP cooler on a Radeon 9000 Pro out there? I think for me some dremeling of the HP cooler is in order due to the amount of stuff around the socket? anyone had any experiecnes with the silencing of a Radeon 9000 Pro?

computer enclosures when built properly can stop a lot of noise and bring the noise levels down heaps, http://mtrs.org/MTRS/noisecontrol.html melchoir's research assignment shows this very well, a basic enclosure has a hole in the bottom with a non-direct airflow path for the intake and a hole in th...

it does mention somewhere on the zalman website that u have to use SHEDLOADS of goop on the actual GPU for the HP cooler, don't know why they say it though, I agree with the paper thin layer, the goo no matter how good is still not as good as metal to metal contact...

http://www.rabidhardware.net/index.php? ... umour&id=3 this guy knows how to use his dynamat, his CPU becomes TOTALLY quiet as well (PS the computer doesn't work anymore) humour

looks pretty sweet using the SiG 552 chipset, I'm wondering if it has enuff power to take care of DivX stuff though on the flyhttp://www.sis.com/products/soc/550.htm more info here, it says it has a x86 compatible PC onboard but doesn't mention the clock speed

what fan were u running with the AX-7 the same fan? cause the thermal take fan can get pretty speedy when it's running in high temp mode, just a though check out http://www.dansdata.com/coolercomp.htm my favourite cooler comparision

*hugs* his AX-7, it seems to be the best value heatsink out of that comparision u can get in australia, the zalman really turned me off when I saw that it had a single lug clip, now I know why

I used Automotive sound deading foam for my setup, it's called something like closed cell foam or the like, very light and very easy to use.
The car audio guys use it for stopping road noise coming into the car, cheap as well

You might be a quiet obessive PC user IF
- you check your CRTs for noise
- you know what coil whine means
- u have tried to suspend your HDD from bicycle tubes

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I believe they mostly say this because it *could* be dangerous, but really, it wouldn't. It's like with all these modifications, you do it at your own risk, if something goes kaboom, it's your fault, not theirs. but if nothing went kaboom were would all the fun go in modding? my opinion is that if ...

Rusty075 wrote:You know you've reached an unhealthy level of obsession when you shop for Monitors (!) based on how noisy they are.

lol I wish I had that much money to shop for monitors, I've got a 15" Compaq that was left outside my uni library and a Chun (!) 14" monitor

the other way to 7V mod of connecting the 12V and 5V rails causing the potential difference of 7V could be harmful to your PSU but I was running two 120MM papsts that I swear was pumping out 100CFM+ each at 12V there were NOT light duty fans one of them had stainless steel blades ;) the PSU seemed t...

and get's to the point where whatever u do the computer just can't seem to get quieter it's the law of diminishing returns

lol rusty, u guys would see my system and go WTF? it's like a ghetto rigged box inside an Al case with a AX-7 and RTV silicon holding the panaflow down onto it, apart from that my system is not spectacular I'm cheap

http://forums.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2135 this thread has some info about the discharge of the PSU, I did that fan swap mod on my PSU as well, one thing I found that made my life easier when I was trying the fans out is to put a 3 pin male connector on the end of the PSU fan wire...

if u look at the swifty's specs on the website they recommend a 80CFM fan on it for good performance and at LEAST a 60CFM one, considering that the peliter is rated and like 225W or so that's a LOT of heat to get rid of, u'd probably be better off with watercooling

lol 12-5V maybe would mean that u've got sparking along the switch, all switches are not perfect u'll get what's called "bounce" , it kinda looks like squgggle and slowly get's smaller think of a boucing ball and the look that'd make, that might be what's causing it

doh! next time measure the size of your fans, it's diameter of the hole that the motor and blades are mounted in
Quiet 40MM fans are a rare find though could be worth your time to keep it

fan adapters in my experience are good in faster case fans but not in quiet case fans like the panaflow L1A, an I managed to get better performance by just directly strapping the 80MM fan to the Heatsink without a adapter to block it u could mount it this way as well http://www.overclockers.com/tips...

oooh yeah if your motherboard supports an external thermistor connection trying plugging that into the base or even better get one of those cheapie inside outsider thermoters with the probe on it and take out the thermistor and jam it into an area in the lower part of your heatsink and see the temp ...

hmmm... that is odd... could be a few things if your computer isn't totally dieing on u... could be your video card cutting out and coming back into it causing the screen blanking.... ummm this is a very odd thing though, I'd try to switch to another fan quietening method like a baybus or a rheostat...

But...since the fan would be at a low speed when I first turn it on, and my bios needs 2000 rpm on the cpu fan speed to boot, I would have to turn off the bios temp auto shut off feature on my mobo. another way of doing this bobash is to trick the Mobo that it's reading a higher speed fan, what u p...

what he's probably trying to say is that when u undervolt the Antec fans it still has a acceptable amount of airflow at 5V and the noise level is still acceptably quiet enuff for his system setup probably louder than the Papst setup though ....

yeah that is a good question Queue down here in Australia it reaches 40°c down here in summer, I upgraded my cooling setup from a Microfinned Al setup to a AX-7 cause summer's near, u guy's in cooler areas don't know how lucky u are in terms of quiet case cooling

cool u might consider a Radeon 9000 Pro or a Geforce 4 Ti 4200 card that'll fit nicely into your budget if it's your major noise generating component and then u can keep your current setup as well

Hello :) what I said with the acoustic foam it does help heaps but it isn't a silver bullet for noise reduction (I walked down that path b4 :oops: ) what u need to do 1st dude is to get rid of the stock heatsinks I think... depends on how much heat those MP's generate... and how much money u want to...

have u done any modifications to your Enermax PSU at all? I swapped in a 80MM Panaflow L1A into my PSU and had the same random reset problem as u but then I moved it up to a M1A and the reset problem seems to be gone :) what's your system setup as well? the enermax 350W should be able to handle all ...

with the Antec trilight fans does the sticker have the name of the maker of the fan on it? is it actually made by antec or is it rebadged with a different name like the vantac series of fans? Good stuff with the spilting of the wires though, dang and I was going to get me some of the papst fans to r...

ummm in my experience if u have a pretty cutting edge computer like u've got u're probably better off selling it by parts.... - u might want to try and save yourself the trouble with a system like yours and upgrade the video card to a Geforce Ti 4200 or something in that class, that should give u be...

lol, I destroyed my push pins on my northbridge fan heatsink, lucky the plastic was weaker than the motherboard :) have u tried checking your RAM to see if that might be causing the stability issue? try finding a RAM testing program as well, my friend had dodgy RAM and managed to RMA it when he show...