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Old January 4th 05, 07:59 AM
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Or use both:

http://www.trustedreviews.com/images...e/1964full.jpg

Note the dual-fan cooling shroud over an equally impressive heat sink.
Find
the shroud or a current-generation Dimension case on eBay and you are set.


You could run them really slow and quiet.


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Old January 4th 05, 08:02 AM
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"dvus" wrote
Why did you remove the CPU heatsink fan? Seems like it might be a little
insurance if the case fan went out.


I went for a quiet pc. With that cpu fan down in there, the duct became its
megaphone. It was just a 70mm thin fan, so it had to rev up a bit to work
ok.

Of course the quieter case fan is echoing out the inner end of the duct. But
I have my inner walls lined with some sound absorbing foam, so I'm not sure
how loud it is.

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Old January 5th 05, 12:03 AM
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You can get a quality Panaflo or Pabst ball-bearing fan that'll last
forever. However, cheap CPU fans will not.

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Why did you remove the CPU heatsink fan? Seems like it might be a little
insurance if the case fan went out.

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Old January 5th 05, 12:15 AM
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Why did you remove the CPU heatsink fan? Seems like it might be a
little insurance if the case fan went out.


You can get a quality Panaflo or Pabst ball-bearing fan that'll last
forever. However, cheap CPU fans will not.


I believe in using quality parts when protecting something as pricey as a
CPU or GPU and will search out good fans when I try this mod. Stuff like
ball-bearing fans aren't really easy to find locally so I may have to resort
to getting them on-line. I've had the fan sieze on a video card before and
the result was corrupted graphics but cleaning it up and lubing the bearing
seemed to bring it back to life. I only have myself to blame however, as I
used to smoke around the computer. I've since cut that out.

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Old January 6th 05, 04:25 AM
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Then again, all P3 and P4 CPUs, all Athlon64s (and I believe all FX5900 and
later video cards) have thermal shutdown protection. Eventually the fan
won't be as mission-critical as it is now.

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I believe in using quality parts when protecting something as pricey as a
CPU or GPU and will search out good fans when I try this mod. Stuff like
ball-bearing fans aren't really easy to find locally so I may have to

resort
to getting them on-line. I've had the fan sieze on a video card before and
the result was corrupted graphics but cleaning it up and lubing the

bearing
seemed to bring it back to life. I only have myself to blame however, as I
used to smoke around the computer. I've since cut that out.

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dvus




 




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