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[SC-Help] Re: The next step??

Mike Easter MikeE at ster.invalid
Fri May 12 06:35:29 EDT 2006


antioch wrote:

> supercool/quiet fan over the CPU.

I once had a cpu fan that was too noisy, but when I put a variable speed
control on it I could adjust it manually [as it wasn't an automatically
adjusting one] and I found that the cpu was just as cool at a lower
speed as at a higher speed.

If I were a gamer, I might have used an automatically adjusting one.

I like cpu coolers that have a lot of 'muscle' in the cooler's
construction, convection and radiation copper and aluminum beef and good
contact medium, so that the fan doesn't have to spin fast or noisily.

> That keeps the temp down to 40-45 all on its own.  Even with a bit of
> clocking.

Maybe your fan could go a teensy slower.  The manual variable speed
control devices are very very cheap and easily installed.

> Anyhow, with a headset on I hear no outside noises -- not even 'her'.

Ha!


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Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin



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