CPU Cooling

dannyd20

Anyone know of any powerful but silent cooling fans out there? I have a ThermoEngine V60-4225 on my Duron 750 at the moment but although it keeps my chip nice and cool its throaty growl is starting to get to me. :mad:

Winters

IU find the coolermaster fans quiet. You can get them at komplett or from Maplin. I have my AthlonXP running on one and its very quiet....untill I added another fan to the back...which made it noisy

PPC

Try http://www.quietpc.com/home.php for some products.

Zalman coolers are ment to be good.

You could try an Alpha PAL 8045 with a 80mm Papst and you pc would be nearly silent depending on hard disks and psu fans

marauder

A mate of mine has a zalman and swears by it. he did have some stability issues though and has RMA'ed his mobo and proc. He has not got a replacement yet but I doubt the zalman was causing the problem....

Mork

I use a Silverado from Noise Control, its very quite, my case fans make more noise! Temps on CPU are quite low too

Full Specs: http://www.noisecontrol.de

Only UK/IRL supplier is http://www.chillblast.com (might be co.uk)

Not cheap, but bloody good, I will be selling my soon, if your interested PM me.

Mork

netman

check out www.overclockers.com for a very good comparison test which includes noise levels.

and www.sidewindercomputers.com have audio files for all their coolers, so you can listen to them yourself. i see they've now added noise graphs, very nice touch

you can always get an excellent heatsink like alpha or swiftech, and just put a quiet fan. some of them sound like drills, i don't know how anyone can live with that in the room!

Chowmein

Any one know if the Alpha PAL 8045 works with the Abit KD7?

[edit] Can anyone sujest a good silent/low noise case fan? [/edit]

PPC

Yeah it seems to be.
Its not on the list tho.

It seems to be from the pics i've seen

Chowmein

Thx PPC