I have an old Athlon64 3000+ based pc that is about to be retired into a machine solely for watching video clips. It will do nothing but playback some netflix video stream, and maybe serve as a place where I dump hard drive images from other machines.
The only problem with this is that this machine is serious noisy, with the majority of the noise coming from the crappy AMD stock fan. It cannot even keep the CPU under 45c idle. I downclocked and under-volted the chip, but the situation did't improve much. The fan still routinely spins up to 4500rpm, and the temp is still in the 40s idle.
The only way to reduce noise is probably to replace the CPU fan. Now this machine is old and I don't want to spend a lot of money on it. I hope to keep the stock heatsink but just put a quieter fan on it. Any suggestions?
Newegg.com doesn't have any cheap standalone CPU fans, but do have lots of cheap case fans. In fact I have 2 of those. Any way to fix a case fan unto a stock AMD heatsink?
EDIT:
A quick search on newegg.com turned up some promising candidates, all are cheap:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103075
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835233022
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835106122
They are all under $20.
The only problem with this is that this machine is serious noisy, with the majority of the noise coming from the crappy AMD stock fan. It cannot even keep the CPU under 45c idle. I downclocked and under-volted the chip, but the situation did't improve much. The fan still routinely spins up to 4500rpm, and the temp is still in the 40s idle.
The only way to reduce noise is probably to replace the CPU fan. Now this machine is old and I don't want to spend a lot of money on it. I hope to keep the stock heatsink but just put a quieter fan on it. Any suggestions?
Newegg.com doesn't have any cheap standalone CPU fans, but do have lots of cheap case fans. In fact I have 2 of those. Any way to fix a case fan unto a stock AMD heatsink?
EDIT:
A quick search on newegg.com turned up some promising candidates, all are cheap:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103075
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835233022
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835106122
They are all under $20.