Noisy CPU fan 363
For PII CPU, it's definitely out of warranty. The PC had one PII CPU wits own fan (I think it's not likely to replace with a third party fan, right ?). No other fan used (graphic card has it's own heat sink and no fan, also no case fan used). No case fan used. This PII PC is noisy. I'm sure the PSU fan was not noisy.
goolu1 I thought you were sure that the noise is coming from the CPU fan. After reading this, I have a...
The motherboard used was intel which already has its on board heat sink. So I suspect further heat sink or case fan could help.
You mean I need to replace the default intel PII CPU fan with one third party fan ? Any suggested model if so ?
Yes, I don't think its overheating. Actually, I didn't open the case for my PII PC. I just did it on my Althon PC wWinFast S610 graphics card (which has it's own fan). Most of the noise came from that graphics card fan.
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 03:02:24 +0100, "sbb78247" A thin fan moves far less air an a given RPM. MUCH less when not in free air, even mounted in a case (on a...
With my new P4 PC, the noise mainly came from the CPU fan (original intel CPU fan) because that motherboard had on on board graphics port i.e. I didn't need to add any graphics card wany fan. But the noise from this PC was much lower compared wthe Althon PC.
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