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Hi,
I'm resurrecting an old KT7E, this time with a Duron 1.2 CPU, with 768MB of
PC133 memory.
The KT7E has a small HSF on the Northbridge, and this fan is really noisy.
It's louder than both the CPU HSF and the power supply it seems.
I'm thinking of replacing that Northbridge HSF with the blue Zalman
Northbridge cooler, and am looking for comments re. the Zalman (the
Northbridge cooler).
Right now, for the CPU, I'm using a stock AMD HSF that I borrowed from a
friend, just to get things working. One of my goals with this machine is to
try to get it as quiet as I can, and I've been experimenting with lowering
the Vcore (which the KT7E BIOS makes very easy to do). So far, I'm down to
1.40v on the Vcore, and the CPU temp is running at 42C in the BIOS display,
at speed 1200 (100).
I'm wondering, if I keep that Vcore, and lower the speed to, say, 900, would
I be able to safely run this CPU without the fan on the HSF? Or, maybe is
there another heatsink that would do a job at passively cooling this CPU?
Another possibility is a quieter HSF that would do a reasonable job. I'm
looking at the TR2-M1. Reviews seem good, and it seems pretty quiet with a
lower speed 80mm fan (the AMD fan runs at ~4200 rpm).
I know this is a bit unusual (most folks want to overclock), but as I
mentioned, I'd really like to get this machine as quiet as possible.
Thanks,
Jim
Hi,
I'm resurrecting an old KT7E, this time with a Duron 1.2 CPU, with 768MB of
PC133 memory.
The KT7E has a small HSF on the Northbridge, and this fan is really noisy.
It's louder than both the CPU HSF and the power supply it seems.
I'm thinking of replacing that Northbridge HSF with the blue Zalman
Northbridge cooler, and am looking for comments re. the Zalman (the
Northbridge cooler).
Right now, for the CPU, I'm using a stock AMD HSF that I borrowed from a
friend, just to get things working. One of my goals with this machine is to
try to get it as quiet as I can, and I've been experimenting with lowering
the Vcore (which the KT7E BIOS makes very easy to do). So far, I'm down to
1.40v on the Vcore, and the CPU temp is running at 42C in the BIOS display,
at speed 1200 (100).
I'm wondering, if I keep that Vcore, and lower the speed to, say, 900, would
I be able to safely run this CPU without the fan on the HSF? Or, maybe is
there another heatsink that would do a job at passively cooling this CPU?
Another possibility is a quieter HSF that would do a reasonable job. I'm
looking at the TR2-M1. Reviews seem good, and it seems pretty quiet with a
lower speed 80mm fan (the AMD fan runs at ~4200 rpm).
I know this is a bit unusual (most folks want to overclock), but as I
mentioned, I'd really like to get this machine as quiet as possible.
Thanks,
Jim