[ale] OT: reducing Athlon noise

Jeff Hubbs hbbs at comcast.net
Tue Sep 2 22:56:25 EDT 2003


Monarch Computer has Thermaltake and Lian Lui (sp?) cases for which
lowered noise is a design goal.  The Thermaltake had several fan speed
control pots.  You can always try the water or heat pipe routes.  

On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 22:24, John Wells wrote:
> I have a box (Athlon 2200+ XP) I'm converting to a MythTv box, but the
> fans I've used in the past to keep the temps down are entirely too loud. 
> I'm looking to replace all the case fans and the CPU fan (Thermaltake
> Volcano 6 CU+ with 7000 rpm fan...noisy) with more quiet ones, while
> hopefully not increasing temps too much.
> 
> Any suggestions?  I'm desperate to get this noise down (so I can hear the
> TV ;-)).
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
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