Ultimate Fan guide
 

If anyone dares to ask which fan they're supposed to use with their HS, or which casecooling they should use, feel free to throw this in their face. :)

w00p , nice work matey
shouldn't you be with your nose in the books.. you got finals! ;)

nice :ws:
check your mailto: links though, 2 errors I found at first sight:

"Replace the standard fan with an papst NGL (12dBa !). Unhearable and cools the unit just enough. I haven't tried this on +350Watt PSU's, it could be it's unefficient cooling for a 500W power supply. Please let me know if you have experience with this."

the let me know has an error in the link

also in the end, the
"If you have any comments on this, feel free to email me. "
has an error

fix0red :D

nice work friend,
keep up the good work, don't forget your schoolwork :)

idd, very nice....
I'm learning a lot on this forum!!!!!!:D :D :D

AWESOME guide!
I always had a good feeling about the Papst fans :D

shame that you didn't tested the vantec fans. Heard good things about them...and the ad's say it is 'silent' ( :rolleyes: )

Waar zou ik zo'n papst NH (37dBa) online kunnen bestelleN?

I ordered them @ tones.be, but they seem out of stock now.

Just mail them and ask when they're expected back in stock.

ok, that's what I gonna do.

Your wright when you say that the original Volcano 7 FAN's suck, lot's of noise & less cooling, XP1800+ ==>> +50°

But Is'nt it weerd that the papst @ 3000rpm is a beter cooler than the Volcano Fan @ 5000rpm?

Iets veerie weerd indied :p

Actually, the standard v7 fan never reaches 5000 rpm under normal conditions: you've got to hold a flame under the temp probe to reach that speed. :)

Heel mooi en duidelijk artikel. Toch heb ik nog een reeks vragen.

Eerst en vooral een inleidend stukje om de situatie een beetje te schetsen.

Ik ben student Toegepaste Informatica en daarom nogal veel met pc's bezig, de laatste tijd begon het geluid dat mijn pc maakte mij meer en meer te storen en daarom besloot ik het internet af te surfen naar interessante oplossingen voor een "stille" pc te maken. Veel sites, maar heel veel in het buitenland niet dat dat een nadeel is, maar niet alle producten waar ze over spreken zijn even gemakkelijk te krijgen in België, het lijkt met dan ook nuttig om dit eens te vragen aan de mensen aan dit forum die duidelijk veel met pc's bezig zijn en ook rekening kunnen houden met wat er te krijgen is in ons landje.

Dit is mijn huidige pc configuratie :
MB : ECS K7S5A
CPU : Athlon 1200
Cooler CPU : Coolermaster ?? 5400rpm (veel lawaai allesinds)
Video : Geforce 256 DDR
Case : AOpen Midi
Drive : IBM deskstar 60GXP 30gb


Ik wil ook nog melden dat het totaal niet mijn bedoeling is om te overclocken, dus performance maakt niet uit.

De vragen

Is dit artikel bedoelt om te kunnen OC'en op een stille(??) manier. Zo ja welke zaken mogen er dan worden weggelaten voor een niet-OC'er en welke zaken zijn echt noodzakelijk.

Heb je bijvoorbeeld ook een nieuwe case nodig (met beter airflow) en moeten de kabels naar je HD en CD/DVD speler best worden vervangen met rounded cables omdat anders de andere onderdelen te veel gaan overhitten.

Welke andere opties stellen jullie voor om een stille pc te krijgen? Ik denk hierbij bijvoorbeeld aan waterkoelingen,...

Zijn al deze onderdelen gemakkelijk te verkrijgen in België(vooral Vlaanderen en liefst nog Antwerpen :) )? En er is rekening gehouden met de kostprijs of is dit gewoon het "beste" en werd er geen rekening gehouden met kostprijs?

Mvg

First of all, welcome to our forums! :hello:

Please write your posts in the language that it has been started. :)

Why thank you, kind sir. :D

hmm... the article clearly states an "OC" choice and a "non OC" choice.

There's no such thing as a free lunch: you can't expect silent aircooling gives you really low temps, but the choice i mentioned in the article will keep your cpu cool enough to be stable at stock speed (<60°C).


Not necessarely. It will improve your temps, but it's generally not necessary if you're not into overclocking.

If your CPU temp hoovers around 60~65°C stressed (a little bit too high), and you don't want to spend extra cash on a (louder?) cpu cooler, it might be a good idea to round your cables or install a (extra) casefan.


Watercooling is expensive. If you're not into overclocking, you can make your pc (almost) as quiet as with watercooler, but for half the price.

General rule: don't save money on cheap heatsinks and loud fans. Get a decent, copper cooler which can handle a silent 80mm (or larger) fan instead of a crappy aluminium heatsink with a loud but performant 60mm fan.

Vidcards make a lot of noise too. Replace it with a Zalman HP-50 passive heatsink (will fit on GF1 DDR).

HD: go for the Seagate Cuda IV/V or Diamond Max Plus 9 (both fluid bearing), the idle spinning noise from a ball bearing disk is a high pitched sound which is VERY annoying.

Yes. There is only one way to know what you are talking about: and that's experiencing it yourself. Every cooler/fan mentioned in the article has passed my hands and has been approved, except the Zalman HP80 (larger brother of the HP50). I've spend A LOT of money in buying all this stuff, but the knowledge gained is worth it. :)

I'm a student myself (also toegepaste informatica :D ), yes. My article clearly states a low end (cheap) and high end (expensive) solution. While some articles are far more expensive than other (eg. Volcano 7 = 20 eur, Alpha 8045 = 60 eur), they are all worth its price.


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Places where these heatsinks can be bought can be found under "sponsors" on main page. :D

subtle :)

first of all -- great job again RichB :super:

now let's do the same thing for watercooling gear ... if we could only get DangerDen, Innovatek, Swiftech and aqua-computer to support this research, it would be a damn unicum :mad:

@ HugoBoss : i presume you're attending classes at KdG ?
if you ever have any problems installing some new things or something alike, just give a yell ... Antwerp is a fine location ;)

I wrote Dangerden a while ago, they seemed to be willing to donate some "review samples".

Only one thing stopping: changing watercooling components is not that fun if you have to dismantle everyting... and we don't have a testlab (yet ;) ).

Calantak: please buy us a HeadQuarter, would you? :D


Speaking of calantak, it has been a while since i've seen him. Busy with work i asume?


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Oh well, i'm feeling like writing a guide. Starting at "the ultimate WaterCooling" guide as we speak. :D

Thank you very much for the answers RichBa5tard :feesten: :feesten:

@Ter·Angreal· : I am indeed following classes at KdG, hihi

tried, but Falco didn't like that ;p

ontopic: PowerMac is organizing a new Papst sale-in very soon, he can get all types of papst fans:)

Calantak is on gaming holiday.

so, what have we got

- D-Tek spiral
- DD Maze2 (not for a long time tho)
- Cuplex EVO
- ... ?

Coming up soon :)

i've got the Z4 waterblock here
not using it atm.

this was ment as in "i'm willing to sent it to you, if you wil sent it back"

Check out Papst inkoopactie @ http://users.pandora.be/souvereyns/

Je kan de Papsten even bij Low Budget zetten ;)