Dell 8400 -- noise ?

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I'm contemplating buying a new 8400 and was wondering about noise. Dell
doesn't give specs on sound output but I would like a machine that is at
least as quiet as my iMac, which is to say nearly inaudible. How do the
8400s rate? I would not get the fastest CPU, by the way. Also, does
anyone know if the video cards Dell uses (the two lower priced cards the
X300 and X800) have a heat sink or a fan on them, since that can
contribute to noise.

robert

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On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:10:37 -0500, "RobertB." <rb28@nyu.edu> wrote:

>I'm contemplating buying a new 8400 and was wondering about noise. Dell
>doesn't give specs on sound output but I would like a machine that is at
>least as quiet as my iMac, which is to say nearly inaudible. How do the
>8400s rate? I would not get the fastest CPU, by the way. Also, does
>anyone know if the video cards Dell uses (the two lower priced cards the
>X300 and X800) have a heat sink or a fan on them, since that can
>contribute to noise.

Broken heatsink - support should be aware of the problem.

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"Jean-Luc Brouillet" <jeanluc@expertise.com> wrote in message
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> My 8400 is very quiet. It is not "nearly inaudible", but much quieter
> than
> any PC I've owned. I have a high-end 8400 (two drives, top video-card),
> so I
> would expect my 8400 to be as noisy as they get, not whithstanding PCs
> with
> defective parts (squealing hard disks or fans).
>
> Jean-Luc
>


Jean -

Then your 8400 also has: the video/GPU fan on the card as well as the
"blower" fan mounted in the case over the PCI cards?

Stew