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Originally Posted by Nih
I will defiantly look at water cooling my next custom build.
I recently replaced the fan coolers on my dual xeons with some hefty passive coolers i found.. i also gutted all the aging fans in the system and got some higher powered silent fans to increase the airflow.. but its still quite the little noise maker...
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at what RPM are your fans running?
'high powered silent fans' will never work.. you have to run them on low RPM / power to silence them. any normal fan will make lots of noise on 12V, also a 'silent' fan. drive them just high enough to ensure save startup (4.5 - 6V usually does the job). you can even turn them further down after startup and check if they are running.
a silent fan-cooled rig will usually be not silent if you just build it up. you have to tune it! on the first switching on, run all fans full power and observe the temps. then reduce cooling-power till you are in a nice and save temp-range.
if you avoid high-power-components and small, high RPM fans, you will be very quiet - and cool, if the airflow in the housing is nice, steady and unidirectional.. |
