6600GT and needed power supply

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"First of One" <daxinfx@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Or use both:
>
> http://www.trustedreviews.com/images/article/page/1964full.jpg
>
> Note the dual-fan cooling shroud over an equally impressive heat sink.
> Find
> the shroud or a current-generation Dimension case on eBay and you are set.

You could run them really slow and quiet.


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Neg. For that, you need a Mac...

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> Could be worse, they could have sized the case so that a standard power
> supply won't physically fit.

 

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Ed Light wrote:
> "dvus" <dven1invalid@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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>> Ed Light wrote:
>>> "dvus" <dven1invalid@adelphia.net> wrote
>>>
>>>> This should work well since I have 2 exhaust fans on the back of my
>>>> case. One could be dedicated to pulling the air from the cpu via
>>>> the use of some form of ducting.
>>>
>>> You might not need to keep running two.
>>
>> Why not? They're fairly quiet and keep the air flowing. Hell, there's
>> those two case exhaust fans and one case intake fan on the front
>> near the hard-drive, plus three built into the PSU, one on the CPU
>> heatsink and one on the GPU heatsink. Must be like a hurricane in
>> there. CPU stays at about 45C and the case at 38C.
>
> The only fans running in mine are the 1 psu fan and one case fan and
> the fan on the ti4200. System temp is 22C just now. Without the cpu
> heat in there it's amazingly lukwarm. Of course alot of fans don't
> hurt anything if you don't mind their sound.
>
> Mine are 80mm running at 2100 and 2350 rpm's.

Why did you remove the CPU heatsink fan? Seems like it might be a little
insurance if the case fan went out.

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"dvus" <dven1invalid@adelphia.net> wrote
> Why did you remove the CPU heatsink fan? Seems like it might be a little
> insurance if the case fan went out.

I went for a quiet pc. With that cpu fan down in there, the duct became its
megaphone. It was just a 70mm thin fan, so it had to rev up a bit to work
ok.

Of course the quieter case fan is echoing out the inner end of the duct. But
I have my inner walls lined with some sound absorbing foam, so I'm not sure
how loud it is.

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You can get a quality Panaflo or Pabst ball-bearing fan that'll last
forever. However, cheap CPU fans will not.

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"dvus" <dven1invalid@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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> Why did you remove the CPU heatsink fan? Seems like it might be a little
> insurance if the case fan went out.
>
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First of One wrote:
> "dvus" <dven1invalid@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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>> Why did you remove the CPU heatsink fan? Seems like it might be a
>> little insurance if the case fan went out.

> You can get a quality Panaflo or Pabst ball-bearing fan that'll last
> forever. However, cheap CPU fans will not.

I believe in using quality parts when protecting something as pricey as a
CPU or GPU and will search out good fans when I try this mod. Stuff like
ball-bearing fans aren't really easy to find locally so I may have to resort
to getting them on-line. I've had the fan sieze on a video card before and
the result was corrupted graphics but cleaning it up and lubing the bearing
seemed to bring it back to life. I only have myself to blame however, as I
used to smoke around the computer. I've since cut that out.

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Then again, all P3 and P4 CPUs, all Athlon64s (and I believe all FX5900 and
later video cards) have thermal shutdown protection. Eventually the fan
won't be as mission-critical as it is now.

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"dvus" <dven1invalid@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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> I believe in using quality parts when protecting something as pricey as a
> CPU or GPU and will search out good fans when I try this mod. Stuff like
> ball-bearing fans aren't really easy to find locally so I may have to
resort
> to getting them on-line. I've had the fan sieze on a video card before and
> the result was corrupted graphics but cleaning it up and lubing the
bearing
> seemed to bring it back to life. I only have myself to blame however, as I
> used to smoke around the computer. I've since cut that out.
>
> --
> dvus
>
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