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ohboring1

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I want to build a very very quite system around an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+... any suggestions?.. oh yes.. i'd like to be air cooled too.. I don't want to bother with water cooling.
 
ohboring1 said:
I want to build a very very quite system around an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+... any suggestions?.. oh yes.. i'd like to be air cooled too.. I don't want to bother with water cooling.
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What's a "quite" system? ;) :D
 
Hallow said:
I don't quiet understand what you're asking. :confused:
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Haha, brilliant!


But yeah, xp120 with a low flow 120mm fan. I have to disagree with the above poster about panaflo fans; they are particularly noisy even at the lowest of speeds due to their ball bearings rumbling. I own 2 of them and both are equally as bad.

I'd recommend any cheap ball bearingless 120mm fan with an rpm of 1500 tops and run it at lower volts as required.

In my experience, dirt cheap fans tend to be quieter than expensive ball bearing fans.
 
spine said:
Haha, brilliant!


But yeah, xp120 with a low flow 120mm fan. I have to disagree with the above poster about panaflo fans; they are particularly noisy even at the lowest of speeds due to their ball bearings rumbling. I own 2 of them and both are equally as bad.

I'd recommend any cheap ball bearingless 120mm fan with an rpm of 1500 tops and run it at lower volts as required.

In my experience, dirt cheap fans tend to be quieter than expensive ball bearing fans.
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Yeah, but after I 7volt mod mine, it runs super quiet.......My 16meg cache hd is noiser....
 
wow... I posted that at 1:44 AM... I must have been very tired.. yes... I would like to build a QUIET system.

What Hard drives are quiet and what heatsink should I use?
 
I have a ThermalRight XP120 Heatsink, coupled with an asaka fan. Nice and quite ;)
there is also a new ThermalRIight SP120, not sure what the difference is though.
Also be careful when buying this heatsink, as it is huge, makesure it can fit your mobo, and also the type of ram you have. I had trouble installing it with corsais xms pro, because the heatspreaders were so tall.
 
My experience with Samsung hard drives is that sound is almost non-existant.
I'd get a samsung if you're worried about noise.
 
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