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Old 04-17-2006, 03:30 AM   #1
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loud fans


Anyone know a good way to keep system and cpu fans quite. btw dont say buy water cooling...

I got smart fans with acpi bios and when the load increases so dose the noise, anyone know what could make them quite btw I cant keep the load down... to busy...
 
Old 04-17-2006, 03:58 AM   #2
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you bought a rubbish fan, refuse to do anything to make it better yet want it to be silent? erm... insulation? http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?...0FOAM&doy=17m4 cheaper to buy a decent fan though...
 
Old 04-17-2006, 05:06 AM   #3
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you bought a rubbish fan, refuse to do anything to make it better yet want it to be silent? erm... insulation? http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?...0FOAM&doy=17m4 cheaper to buy a decent fan though...
how do you know what fan I bought... the technology it uses is "smart"... not the brand.
 
Old 04-17-2006, 07:29 AM   #4
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regardless of who makes what, you picked a fan and it's too noisy for you...
 
Old 04-17-2006, 08:47 AM   #5
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regardless of who makes what, you picked a fan and it's too noisy for you...
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umm... I dident know if it was going to be noisy...

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how can I make it more silent...
 
Old 04-17-2006, 09:09 AM   #6
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well you've said you can't slow the fan down so there's really nothing else you can do to the fan itself unless you can improve on the aerodynamics of the fan blades or something, so as i suggested originally, you'd be looking at making the most of what's left by insulation and such.
 
Old 04-17-2006, 11:53 AM   #7
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Buy another fan. Try these people:
http://www.quietpc.com/
 
Old 04-17-2006, 12:12 PM   #8
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Buy another fan. Try these people:
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cant you buy me one :-)
 
Old 04-17-2006, 03:11 PM   #9
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try this... http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/w...4&storeId=6970
 
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Isn't this even better?
 
  


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