[ale] OT: reducing Athlon noise

[Dow Hurst]

I have the Zalman Cu fan shaped heatsink with silent fan combo.  I think 
the thermal compound isn't right for me as I still get higher temps than 
I'd like.  However, the airflow in the case is the major reason for 
problems.  We should figure out an easy way to incorporate piped 
directed airflow over any heatsink just like in Dells and Gateways.  The 
need for noisy fans would go away.  I've thought PVC pipe would work, 
but does anyone have a better suggestion?
Dow


nick travis wrote:

>Whatever you do, i wouldn't try a zalman fanless cooler, it fried my
>chip.
>
>Nick
>On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 22:24, John Wells wrote:
>  
>
>>I have a box (Athlon 2200+ XP) I'm converting to a MythTv box, but the
>>fans I've used in the past to keep the temps down are entirely too loud. 
>>I'm looking to replace all the case fans and the CPU fan (Thermaltake
>>Volcano 6 CU+ with 7000 rpm fan...noisy) with more quiet ones, while
>>hopefully not increasing temps too much.
>>
>>Any suggestions?  I'm desperate to get this noise down (so I can hear the
>>TV ;-)).
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>John
>>
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