For very long time I was bothered by noise of my computer. When I bought it
five years ago it was quite top line machine with two CPU Pentium III and
1GB memory. It has fan on each CPU plus one fan blowing air in big tower
case and one on power supply to take it out. About two month ago I have
bought silent cooler for one of the CPU. It helps but I can't use it for
second as well because a size. Those two coolers didn't fit next to each
other.
Yesterday I install monitoring soft and I saw that temperature on my CPU
are all far below 30C and temperature in case is about 25C. I decide to
stop big fan for air taking into case. That lower the noise quite a lot and
increase temp in case only by one degree of Celsius. The next step I did
was disconnecting the old noise fan from CPU1. Temperature raised on 46C on
full loaded CPU for about 30minutes.
Now I have very low noise PC and still cooled enough. Next step which I
plan is install copper passive coolers on both CPUs if the fit. I have
found nice from Zalman. Just have to be sure that they can fit next to each
other.
