Case fans

dash · **Posted:** Sun 07-30-2006 9:47AM

So, my computer is quite noisy. It has a couple Masscool 80mm fans in it atm, rated at 26.5 dB each, or so, but I find this to be a bit on the loud side. Anybody recommend a good *quiet* fan/brand?

dar9q7 · **Posted:** Sun 07-30-2006 4:19PM

i hear the Vantec Stealth case fans are nice, but comparitively pretty expensive

ShadowCat38 · **Posted:** Mon 07-31-2006 12:46AM

Sorry to hijack the thread, but since the topic seems to be noise:

My hard drives are stuck in acoustic-quality mode, meaning they are much slower. My BIOS has no ability to change these settings, so can someone point me in the right direction for some software to do this?

cmptrnrd16 · **Posted:** Mon 07-31-2006 8:20AM

ShadowCat38 wrote:

Sorry to hijack the thread, but since the topic seems to be noise:

My hard drives are stuck in acoustic-quality mode, meaning they are much slower. My BIOS has no ability to change these settings, so can someone point me in the right direction for some software to do this?

Do you have the newest version of your bios? Also is their some sort of jumper on your harddrive for this setting?

Fattybuddha · **Posted:** Mon 07-31-2006 8:49AM

You don't change acoustic mangement settings in your bios for hds. Get the utility cd for you hard drive from your manufacturer. It may or may not allow you to change (depending on the brand) those settings. You also might want to try getting the ultimate boot cd, it has quite a few of those utility images.

dash · **Posted:** Mon 07-31-2006 6:48PM

/me re-hijacks

So, I have heard about Zalman, Vantec, and Spire, Anything beyond that, or more specifics among those?

RsaXVC · **Posted:** Mon 07-31-2006 9:56PM

I don't know about you guys, but the accoustic controls in my box are in the bios.

snipermav · **Posted:** Tue 08-01-2006 2:57PM

SilenX fans are really good, but also very expensive. I think they may be the quietest fans on the market.

-|F.I.B.|-LowMan · **Posted:** Tue 08-01-2006 8:20PM

snipermav wrote:

SilenX fans are really good, but also very expensive. I think they may be the quietest fans on the market.

They are quite good, I put several into my last case. However, a decent 120 mm fan will do an even better job as my new setup has. This is easily the quietest gamer I have ever built.

modernmystic · **Posted:** Tue 08-01-2006 10:27PM

I've heard only good things about Antec's fans, but I've also not asked to be told anything, so...
-mm

squishypickle · **Posted:** Wed 08-02-2006 3:13PM

Fattybuddha wrote:

You don't change acoustic mangement settings in your bios for hds. Get the utility cd for you hard drive from your manufacturer. It may or may not allow you to change (depending on the brand) those settings. You also might want to try getting the ultimate boot cd, it has quite a few of those utility images.

Linux lets you modify acoustic variables and other stuff via the hdparm utility. (Unless they are SATA/SCSI, then it may not work) You might be able to do that with the manufactuer boot cd.

dash · **Posted:** Wed 08-02-2006 4:04PM

Just for clarification, my HDDs are not even audible, but my case fans are quite noisy. I was just looking for potentially quiter fans.

dash · **Posted:** Sat 08-05-2006 6:50PM

Hehe, /me is happy.

I bought a couple ones from the local Micro Center, went from 2x80mm [about 36 cfpm @ 36 dB] to 2x120mm [about 110 cfpm @ 16 dB].

kjk437 · **Posted:** Sat 08-05-2006 8:22PM

Well, they're not case fans, but the Zalman 9300 CPU fan was the best thing I did for my computer in terms of noise.

dash · **Posted:** Sat 08-05-2006 9:04PM

kjk437 wrote:

Well, they're not case fans, but the Zalman 9300 CPU fan was the best thing I did for my computer in terms of noise.

I have the 7000.

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