I am looking for a cheapest way to quiet a northwood p4 2.4gig ht.
The noise it makes its way too high. Its runnig the Intel stock cooler. I am thinking whats the cheapest cooler, I can get to cool te cpu. Also replace the power supply fan with quiter one, and maybe add a 120mm case fan.
The psu is a generic one, I dont plan to invest any money in a new psu atm.
Is there any possible software solution to lower the rpm on the fans.
Thanks
Cheapest way to quiet a old Northwood p4
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With one of these - http://svcompucycle.stores.yahoo.net/scnj-1000p.html - I am currently passively cooling a P4 Northwood 3.2GHz w/ H/T on. Of course, I have an Antec P180 and the fans are positioned really fortuitously.
When I had an Antec SLK3700blk, I had the same heatsink with one of these fans - http://www.endpcnoise.com/cgi-bin/e/std ... 120mm.html - and it did the trick pretty well and very quietly.
Admittedly, that setup will run you about $53 plus whatever you need thermal compound wise (I am using Arctic Silver 5).
What would you consider cheap?
When I had an Antec SLK3700blk, I had the same heatsink with one of these fans - http://www.endpcnoise.com/cgi-bin/e/std ... 120mm.html - and it did the trick pretty well and very quietly.
Admittedly, that setup will run you about $53 plus whatever you need thermal compound wise (I am using Arctic Silver 5).
What would you consider cheap?
Thanks for the advice. It seems that my power supply fan is making alot of noise. The power supply fan claims to be temperature controlled, but I have never hearded lower its rpm. And the temperatures dont seem to be too high either.grepcomputers wrote:With one of these - http://svcompucycle.stores.yahoo.net/scnj-1000p.html - I am currently passively cooling a P4 Northwood 3.2GHz w/ H/T on. Of course, I have an Antec P180 and the fans are positioned really fortuitously.
When I had an Antec SLK3700blk, I had the same heatsink with one of these fans - http://www.endpcnoise.com/cgi-bin/e/std ... 120mm.html - and it did the trick pretty well and very quietly.
Admittedly, that setup will run you about $53 plus whatever you need thermal compound wise (I am using Arctic Silver 5).
What would you consider cheap?
I may need to replace the power supply.
Thanks