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How would one go about getting a quiet multimedia socket A based system? Can
you underclock, undervolt mobile athlons easily to where they wouldn't need
much cooling?

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On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 15:56:58 +0000, Doug wrote:

> How would one go about getting a quiet multimedia socket A based system? Can
> you underclock, undervolt mobile athlons easily to where they wouldn't need
> much cooling?

Sure, get a quiet PSU. A case with good ventilation, lower vcore to 1.5v
or less, and clock the cpu to about 1500MHz. Use a silent type cpu cooler.
A TR2-M1 or -M3 is good, cheap and very quiet (21dba). If it still makes
too much noise lower the fan speed a little.

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In article <ehLJe.491$dk5.29@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>, Doug says...
> How would one go about getting a quiet multimedia socket A based system? Can
> you underclock, undervolt mobile athlons easily to where they wouldn't need
> much cooling?
>
Look at the Zallman Flower CPU coolers.


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In article <ehLJe.491$dk5.29@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>,
pigdos@nospam.com says...
> How would one go about getting a quiet multimedia socket A based system? Can
> you underclock, undervolt mobile athlons easily to where they wouldn't need
> much cooling?

Just been on a quest of achieving this. First thing I did was to replace
the CPU fan - I have a big Thermalright copper HS with a 90mm fan.
Replaced the old fan with a Vantec. Next, I replaced the fan on the mobo
with a passive heatsink, put a Zalman fanless heatpipe cooler on my
Radeon 9600 XT video card, and replaced my 3 old harddrives with a new
fluid bearing Seagate one (250 Gb, 7200 rpm). Replaced old PSU with a
420W Enermax. Got an Antec SLK 3000 case - this case mounts the
harddrives with rubber grommets to reduce vibrations being transferred.
It's pretty quiet now - I have to look for the led on the front of the
case to see if it's on when I walk into the room. But it's not silent. I
think the cpu fan still makes noise by inducing the case to vibrate
some.

All that cost me some $$$, but mostly I just replaced parts that were
quite old (PSU, hdd) or had to be replaced (old case too big to fit into
my new desk). Big difference though: before it sounded like a jumbo jet
taking off down the hallway :-)

-P.