Tinkering with the Beige Beast.

Did a bit of tinkering yesterday. Just cauz i could and i wanted to make things quieter.

Before i started tinkering i had the following fan setup
1 50mm fan atop the socket370 cooler i epoxy arctic silvered onto the geforce2pro
1 40mm NB fan simply screwed onto the 8k3a+ passive NB heatsink
PSU -> rheostat -> rear thermaltake casefan -> second rheostat -> CPU fan.

So i opened up the case, curious as to what were the major contributors to noise.
The 2 7200rpm HDD's were signficant, but i cant change that. The 40mm NB fan was suprisingly virtually noiseless despite running at 5000+rpm.
The 50mm fan atop the GPU had quite a destinct whine, despite being slow, and the rear casefan also was making considerable noise despite being throttled by a rheostat.

So just for fun i ran my system for a few hours with the GPU fan turned OFF. I kept an eye on GPU temps thanx to sandra video info.
with a fan at full load (UT2003) it was around 52C
no fan idle was 60C. no fan full load with the case closed only gave 66C, and zero crashes. COOLIES! It didnt crash thanx to the monster socket 370 cooler i attached (takes up 2 pci slots) . Gotta love passive cooling.

Nice as it was i wanted some active cooling, what with summer approaching.
So in a burst of brilliance i realised i could daisychain up all 3 fans to the 2 rheostats in serial!

So now my system is set up as follows:
PSU -> rheostat1 -> rheostat2 -> branch off to 3pin thermaltake rear casefan -> branch off to 50mm GPU fan -> 80mm pabst CPU fan.

The 80mm pabst CPU fan runs at a max of 3600rpm. 1 rheostat brings it down to about 2900. the second rheo and its down to around 2300.
The rear casefan is 2700rpm max, 2200rpm 1 rheo, 1900rpm 2 rheostats.
GPU fan speed is unknown, but on 2 rheostats its gone from an annoying whine to silent.

Now with the 40mm NB fan completely gone and all 3 other fans set to minimal speed the noise has been significantly reduced. Very plesant.
Though casetemps are slightly higher now. oh well.

And thats the extent of my fiddling thus far.

P.S. the actual rheostat knobs are very ghetto done, cut a hole in the back of the case and both are poking out. Both rheostats have sticky backed 40mm HS's attached to the back of them... those rheo's get quite hot without em!

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Sometimes I just want to take a box of 3 inch buckshot magnum shells and a 12 gauge pump and blast the [-peep-] [-peep-] out of my beige box.


<font color=red><i>Doctor Hooter</i></font color=red> <A HREF="http://www.page3.com/" target="_new"><b>(·Y·)</b></A>

That will fix the goddamn piece of motherfucking [-peep-].

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Tell me about it!
Took a week of problem solving to find what was cauzing the boggyness (UT2003 corrupting my sound drivers) then a day or so later i find my DVD drive on the skids

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I'll do the whole thing.
Blast the monitor, keyboard, mouse, scanner, printer and speakers.

I'd like to try shoving four sticks of dynamite into the beige box and then wrap the box with four rolls of duct tape so the full force of the dynamite is contained within the beige box.
That will teach Wintel to [-peep-] with me.


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Nice case.
How much is GST in AU? Its 7% in CA.

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Well the cost is $407 AU with gst, $370 without, so using my <i>VAST</i> intellect i deduce that gst is 10%.
and multiply $407 by .55 to get US dollars = 224.
Course i allready have a PSU, and one can get em without a psu which should save 50 bucks or so.


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21%
That must be already hidden in the purchase price.

We have those hidden taxes to. I don't think there is an easy way to calculate them.

In Ontario all purchases have 7% GST for the Federal government and 8% PST for the Provincal government.
A few things are exempt from taxes like food. Other things have higher taxes like alcohol and tobacco.

Basically everything I buy has 15% added to it at the cash checkout. Ex. I buy a pair of blue jeans tagged for 29.95 actually costs $34.44.
Better yet go buy a car for $20000 and it costs $23000.
Buy a house......I might as well lay down and die.
My favourite....income tax. I have a good job and make a lot of money so the government lets me keep 60% of my earnings. Isn't that nice.



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ROFL your boxes are beige!!!!!!!! lol jk I will be nice


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Paint it and we'll forgive you.

Yeah? Well if my Aunt had balls she'd be my Uncle.

Well i probably wouldnt mind if it were half decent... But its not.
Its an ugly beige box with chronically poor airflow, even with my ghetto mods (cutting out the fan grills)
Heavy bugger too. and no room inside to tinker properly.


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Really? That's it?
Okay...I'll get right on it. Do I have to paint it black? How about flashy electric blue or hot pink?

Sorry...girl side got carried away...don't want to jeopardize reentry into the "club".

Black it is.

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I was thinking more of a <font color=green>lizard</font color=green> style paintjob...what do you think Yahiko??

/poke



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That waxing must hurt badly.

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