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On Sun, 8 May 2005 10:51:56 -0400, "History Fan"
<Ihatespam@ireallyreallyhateSPAM.com> wrote:
> I have a Gateway G6-450 desktop PC, purchased in Jan. 1999. It's a
>decent old machine, but the fans, or something inside of it, is rather
>noisy. While shopping at Circuit City recently, I came upon this little
>item:
>http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Antec-PC-Noise-Killer-Kit-75006-/sem/rpsm/oid/80206/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do
You didn't really mention what type of noise (fan flow noise or
vibrational noise). However, since you are looking at those
"Gaskets", I assume you are talking about vibrational noise.
My experience over the years has been that some fans, especially the
ones that come with the conglomerate mass produced boxes will and do
become noisier both in flow noise and in vibrational noise as they get
older. They are wearing out. Cheap fans, like the ones already in
there, are a dime a dozen to replace usually or one can replace them
with ultra quiet fans that run around $10-$20 each which have blade
configurations that do not lend to making the usual air flow noise
associated with cheaper fans plus they have better bearing
configurations on the shafts lending to longer life and less apt to
getting shaft wobble which lends to vibrational noise. They also
supply a lot more CFM for the buck than the cheap ones that are in the
mass produced boxes.
I remember my last GW desktop which was from 1999. It had a fan
blowing into the PS and a fan blowing out of the PS into a cone that
directed the hot PS air onto the Processor Chip. Some genius in
Taiwanese thought that blowing heated up air from the PS onto the
processor would be enough to cool it. My white boxes since getting
away from Taiwanese boxes with Gateway painted on them has been to run
many fans. My latest has a fan cooling the PS which, by the way, does
not spill its hot into the case. It is vented outside the case. Then
there is a fan on the Processor and a smaller one on the video card's
processor. Then there are 4 case fans, one blowing in at the front,
one blowing in at the side and two blowing out at the back.
Okay, everyone says that this must be a noisy system with all those
fans but it isn't because they are "quiet" fans plus high CFM models
to boot and only cost an average of $12 each (the CPU fan came with
the CPU). Also, the case fans and processor fan run at different RPMs
according to what the CPU and inside case temp is. So, most of the
time, they are only running about half their normal RPM.
Kevin is also right in that one should never put a system in those
computer desk enclosures because you cut down on air flow. My
computer desk has one of these and if I were to put any of my boxes it
there, I would have no more than 1" on each side and not more than 2"
at the back if the box is pulled all the way to the front where it
touches the door when it closes. Another design by total imbeciles
without a reasonable facsimile of a clue.
Don't spend money on gaskets, spend it on "Quiet" blade, High CFM,
enhanced bearing fans. They don't cost all that much and give you
tons more performance for the buck than the cheapo base line junk fans
that came with the system. I think a Google search on "ultra quiet
computer fans" should get you going.....
Regards,
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