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iGudi
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2009-11-14, 17:38
Hi everyone,
My Asrock is now running very smooth now, thanks to this forum, and the next project is to make i less noisey!
Has anyone tried switching the fan, or some other mod, that could be recommented?
I'm planning on hiding it away in a draw, but I can hear it with it's current fan. So my thoughts are to install a papst 80mm fan in the draw, to get the hot air out, and change the small fan inside the Asrock.
Any suggestions?
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dewen
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2009-11-14, 18:02
(This post was last modified: 2009-11-14, 18:04 by dewen.)
My is very low noise, maybe you can try CMOS BIOS setup fan speed to low ?
I remove the hard drive and DVD since I use live USB and only stream from
other PC, this may reduce some internal heat ? or use fanless external hard drive
for data storage...
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Of the three ASRocks I have set up two are basically dead silent (with the BIOS set to ultrasilent) - but the other is noisier.
On the noisier one, I think the best thing would be a new fan...they get pretty warm so I am not sure that slowing it down any further would be the right way to go....
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spanik
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Hello,
Have swapped the noisy 5400rpm HDD that came in my Asrock for a 32GB SDD, and I can tell you that it makes a huge difference (much quieter), unfortunately I now hear the fan even more; will have to change that one too now :-)
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My problem was with cpu fan, installed a fan controller on that one and turned the speed down. Haven't checked in a while but at the time temps didn't get above 55 degrees Celsius.
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freddy
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Hello all,
I have an Asrock ION 330 with ubuntu 9.04 and XBMC 9.11. All is working fine, XBMC is really a nice player. My problem is the noise generated by the CPU fan. I have 1.60 BIOS but even in ultra silent it's too noisy.
Amelandbor, could you please describe what you have modified in your Asrock ION 330. Is the fan controller extra hardware you installed inside the Asrock or it is only a software.
Thanks
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I bought the Zalman Fanmate 2.
You hook this one up on the motherboard instead of the power cord of the original fan. The original power cord gets hooked up on the fanmate and the controller part is taken out of the Asrock.
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@Amelandbor: many thanks for this. I had an old fanmate and fanmateII lying about and used them both. However, I agree it's that CPU fan that is the most troublesome.
Now the machine is quiet I'm going to focus on replacing the thermal sponges with Arctic Silver 5 and then try to replace the case 50mm fan for something with more airflow and less noise.
What are your system temps under normal load (say, streaming H264 or watching a DVD)? My CPU cores can top out at 80C with my GPU at ~90C. I'm not massively concerned but would like lower temps. It would useful to know what you're seeing now you've had this fix in for a while.