Article:		Building My MythTV Box, Part 1: Hardware
Subject:		concerning fan noise
Date:		2005-06-29 04:36:04
From:		Guust
It surprised me you chose a motherboard with a chipset fan. I suggest replacing the fan with a chipset passive heatsink. Furthermore u placed 2 casefans into the back ... aren't these quite noisy too ? Maybe a good look on the airflow design might decrease the number of fans to actually 1 for the PSU and even that one could be really silent.

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• concerning fan noise
  2005-07-01 10:16:40  Matthew Gast | [Reply | View]
  
  
  The motherboard with a chipset fan was my mistake, and I definitely plan to replace it with a passive northbridge cooler this month.
  
  The case fans came with the case. They are not too loud because I used the power supply to slow them down. The biggest noise problem is actually the CPU heat sink fan, which I plan to replace with a Zalman cooler when I replace the northbridge fan.
  
  The PSU fan almost never spins, and is nearly always dead silent.