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[woogie]

I'm pretty much of a novice so please bear with me. I have an Athlon XP 1900+ cpu and a Thermalright AX-7 cooler with a Panaflo fan. I'm getting way too much noise for my liking, even with the Panaflo. The power supply is 400 Antec. Other than the basic intake and exhaust, there are 2 other fans, a blowhole on top (exhaust) and one on the door that blows in.

Okay, here are some ideas I had and I need feedback from those more knowledgable than I. Can I use one of those "smart fans" (coolmaster and thermaltake) with built-in sensors as the cpu fan? Is this enough cooling? (I don't overclock).

I also thought of using 2 more of this type of fan to replace my front and rear fans. I know it sounds silly but could the built-in sensors sort of "out-think" one another?

Also, maybe I could disconnect the top and side fans?

Would all or any of these things make it quieter while still providing sufficient cooling?

[hiredgoonz]

I would stick with an always on fan for the cpu...

As far as case fans...since your PSU is going to have a fan sucking air out, and you have one at the top of the case pulling air out, you could really scrap all the other fans. This would provide the negative pressure that ATX cases are supposed to have and probably not reduce your airflow at all.

Too many fans is just as bad as too few...I'm running an overclocked Athlon XP with two fans at the back pulling air out and the psu fan pulling air out, no intake fans, and a big hs with 5000rpm fan on the CPU. My chip runs from 36-44C.

Since you're trying to reduce noise, having all your fans as exhaust will keep them farther from you and should still provide the same airflow...

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[Jumby]

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[borgdrone1of2]

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[jeremy23_2002]

Hi woogie. Noise can be annoying but what's more annoying than noise is knowing your hardware is running hotter than you want it to be and thus shortning it's natural life. Many people would argue how a good cooling configuration actually extends and improves the stability of you pc's hardware. I am a sucker for both stability and preformance. I OverClock the hell out of every possible component I can.

At the same time noise pisses me off and I like to hear as less noise as possible. If you want less noise in general it's going to cost you more money. As you know Panaflo fans made by (Panasonic) are excellent fans to acomplish ample cooling at low noise (Dba). PAPST fans are also excellent fans that move alot of (CFM) at low (Dba's) in other words more air at less noise level.

I suggest picking up either some very quite 80mm panaflo fans or the extremly quite but more spendy 80mm PAPST fans found here: http://www.plycon.com/fans80.htm

Also you might want to look into some Acoustic Dampening material like Akasa Acoustic material. It works very well for canceling out loud 80mm case fans but the down side is it can in some cases raise the tempature of your case a few degress no more than +1/+3 degrees. You can find that stuff here : http://www.plycon.com/paxmate.htm

I am a overclocker and you said you are not but reguardless you want to keep everything in your PC as chilly as possible but not to the point of driving yourself nutz with fans everywhere. I usually have 2 80mm very quite Panaflo fans pulling air into the case from the front and one very quite 80mm Panaflo pushing air out the back of the case. I also have Akasa Noise Dampening material all over the inside of my case and I can barely hear anything coming from the case.

[woogie]

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