tiny voices
Titan
Went back to the 300r. The Vulcan was just not cutting it.
I had to change the CPU cooler from the Ibuypower unit (which lived up to it's brand name and failed (pump)) with the CoolIT ECO II-120 (old style H60) I got for $17 some time back at microcenter. Sitting happily at 4.1ghz (had to back off from 4.5 because of using a much lower end board now) and never going above 52c.
I also threw in 2 SP120s I had (had 4 but 2 had failed bearings) just to see how long they last before the bearings on these go. One is already developing a small tick.
The VP-450 fan bearing also decided to go causing a very loud rumbling/grinding noise, so I soldered a new fan in place with the PSU still in the system. I guess I should have disconnected the motherboard, SSD/HDD, GPU power cables before I started working, but where is the fun in that. I now have a fan in there that is dead silent but moves the same or even more air. It is actually a Rosewill case fan I had lying around.
I had to change the CPU cooler from the Ibuypower unit (which lived up to it's brand name and failed (pump)) with the CoolIT ECO II-120 (old style H60) I got for $17 some time back at microcenter. Sitting happily at 4.1ghz (had to back off from 4.5 because of using a much lower end board now) and never going above 52c.
I also threw in 2 SP120s I had (had 4 but 2 had failed bearings) just to see how long they last before the bearings on these go. One is already developing a small tick.
The VP-450 fan bearing also decided to go causing a very loud rumbling/grinding noise, so I soldered a new fan in place with the PSU still in the system. I guess I should have disconnected the motherboard, SSD/HDD, GPU power cables before I started working, but where is the fun in that. I now have a fan in there that is dead silent but moves the same or even more air. It is actually a Rosewill case fan I had lying around.