Advice on new build (Edited for Readability)

Sabrewulf165 · Post by **Sabrewulf165** » Fri May 27, 2005 3:54 pm

Looking for advice on the best way to quiet my build

What I have:

AMD Athlon 64 3400+ socket 754 Newcastle 2.4 ghz 512k
MSI K8N Neo FSR motherboard (nforce3 250gb)
BBA Radeon 9700 Pro w/ Vantec CC4 copper cooler on fanmate @ 5v
Theater 550 Pro TV Tuner
2x512 Corsair Value PC3200

What I need input on:

CASE: currently considering Antec Sonata or SLK-3000B

PSU: Sonata built-in, or... ?

CPU Cooler/Fan: currently considering Thermalright XP-90 (what fan should I use?)

COIL NOISE: just can't seem to win with this lately, almost every system I put together seems to suffer from it. What can I do?

thanks in advance for any input

Sabrewulf165 · Post by **Sabrewulf165** » Sat May 28, 2005 4:37 am

bump, shortened up my post to get to the point

nici · Post by **nici** » Sat May 28, 2005 5:01 am

Where do you live? If you can get Seasonics over there, wherever it is, get one of the S12 PSUs.

General opinion would probably be 3000B over Sonata, and you dont have to pay for the PSU your are not going to use.

CPU Cooler/Fan: get the XP-90 and a suitable Nexus fan to go with it, if you can find it.

Coil noise, take a pencil with one of the rubber erasers in one end and poke on possible offending coils, if the whining stops put some electricians goop on the coil. Dont know where to get it, but its the stuff found inside most power-supplies on coils to get rid of coil-whine.

Sabrewulf165 · Post by **Sabrewulf165** » Sat May 28, 2005 5:14 am

How likely is it that "gooping" the coils will fix the problem? It's very difficult for me to test the coils becaue the noise only happens intermittently and for brief durations. There are a few actions which reliably produce the noise, but it's going to be tough to perform those actions and go poking around inside my case at the same time without accidentally zapping something