Recent content by Blitzin

Actually, I did vacuum clean my comp when I was down there, can't you tell from the pic?(offeded :P) Please take a look at the 13th post, is it just something that's good to have for OC'ing? Can I unplug the fan, without worrying? If not, dialing the fan speed down will be my next move. I...

I received the Xigmatek S1283 today and installed it. It turned out that it wasn't the CPU cooler that made a lot of noise, but the NVIDIA SRP with passive heat sink, which also goes under the name "chipset fan", as they call it in the manuel. I tried to turn on the computer just after I...

Thanks everyone for replying :) I tried to use the cylindrial lisening thing, but I was still unable to detect where the noise came from. Then I wrote the name of the CPU cooler down (Foxconn D60188-001) and after some research I found it is running @ 5300 RPM, with 36 dBA! So that's good...

Today I received the case fans, and got them installed successfully. It virtually didn't make any difference. It's still very noisy! :( I went straight to using the adaptor, so I'm running on 500 rpm. I guess the biggest problem was the CPU cooler. So now I the next step is to buy a CPU...

Thanks for your quick reply sirmonkey1985. An excellent piece of advice you gave me, so I checked out the noctua fans. I stumbled upon NF-S12B ULN, which I just bought 2 of. They seems to be exactly what I'm looking for. Their price point was no problem. I'll post back when I get the fans...

My computer is very noisy, and I would like make it in-audioble, or as close to that as possible. I have no intention of overclocking, at least so far. I use my computer as HTPC as well. Here's what I got: Case: Cooler Master Mystique 631 PSU: fortron/Source Epsilon 700 W CPU: Intel...