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Making an older PC quieter
- Subject: Making an older PC quieter
- From: "JonShaw" <semi.jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:31:23 +0100
I have an old Athlon PC that will become my 24x7 machine for the short
term,
it is powerful enough for what I need, but a bit noisy. The PSU and
northbridge are the main culprits.
Quietpc.com do PSUs, does anyone have experience of their kit. I don't
want
to scrimp on the PSU if it will be more efficient, but dopn't want to spend
vastly on my old PC if it doesn't make a different. FWIW currently it
sucks
about 150W in normal running, so a fairly lowly quiet PSU would be fine.
Any ideas on how to tack the northbridge? I have an old Zalman flower
cooler fan and mount which would blwo air over the heat sink but not sure
if
the board temp monitors this? Would I find out if it was inadequate if it
kept rebooting? Is there another way?
TIA
Jon
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