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FOAK: One for the quiet PCisti
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I have just bought and fitted a few overclock/quiet pc goodies which fitted
ok but a bit of a ballache in a few places.
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My computer at work is totally silent, is a new Dell thingy and it generates
no noise at all - amazing really.
My machine at home is like a vacuum cleaner though!
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Mac Minis are amazingly quiet.
But not as quiet as an old iBook running an OS from a pen drive.
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My aging coolmaster socket A like a concorde on takeoff has been replaced
with a superquiet Speeze socket A fan. And I mean ..... quiet.
Although its working nicely (superquiet), the ASUS Probe utils seems to
suggest no fan speed ( which is a small downside ).
It only seems to connect one way which is the correct way at present. So
can't quite fathom the issue there, clearing the monitoring bit ain't having
it. Perhaps something in the BIOS ?
Secondly, my GPU, a TYAN Radeon 9600 pro would not work with the ATI
Silencer2, which needed some serious modding to get it to work including
having to pin-out and drastically change around the pins as even the 2 pin
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Depends if the fan itself actually has any tacho circuitry, some do, some
don't.
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connector would not have bodged given their cable was Red-Black and the old
was Black-Yellow-Red, but also having to wrench off a screw that obviously
is not designed with this model in mind ?? How can they advertise an item
like this when perhaps not all people are prepared to get down and dirty to
get them to work ?
That said, the rest of the fit is ok and it seems to be doing a cooling job
as designed and much quieter than before.
One other mention is the ommision of the yellow cable on the GPU fan itself
so no fan monitoring....odd given the 9600 Pro is overclock by design ???
However the TYAN utils do allow a third party fan option which disables any
concern to the hardware monitor so no problems.
Wierd, wondered if anyone had seen these kind of issues with their PC mods?
Is it usual to expect such massive deviations ?
I'm actually quite impressed to learn I can now hear a hard drive spin, over
what was previously an absolutely almighty din. Its actually quite wierd not
having the racket anymore.
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