the last days I try to get my PC so silent as possible. And finally I got it, all other noises in my room are louder.
What I have done:
- the CPU fan is a Zalman CNPS9500
- I bought this power supply
- set all fan controler at lowest motion
- conect all fans to the mainboard conectors
- set fans at the BIOS at “silent” mode
- use only one housing fan
- close all air openings with adhesive tape except the one in the near of the HDD and at the backside: now the air flow from front to backside
- build in my HDD fixed by rubber bands (trouser rubber band), so that all deep sounds are gone
- set CPU voltage at default 1.25 V (the automatic overclocking set it at higher value that cause more heat)
- place a cover in front of the incoming air opening, so that the air flow from the ground and no opening is direct visible
Now, the CPU show me a temperature of ~42° C at full load.
If somebody like, I could post some photos of the system (HDD fixage and …).
Re: OT: Silent Dualcore E6600@2.9GHz for less money
Micha,
I’ve found (at least for me ;)) that the case and fan set up has allot to do with how noisy or quite a computer is. I just finished building a system with a Lian-Li case. Its a really solid case (all aluminum) so there really isn’t to much noise from things like the HD or anything else. The case itself is really big so its has a really good airflow as well as having several 120mm fans. I think the 120mm fans make a big difference b/c they can move more air at lower rpm. The 80mm fans have to be running at pretty much full speed to move enough air to keep the system cool. I don’t have too much experience so I can’t say much else, but congrats on having a superquite machine.
Re: OT: Silent Dualcore E6600@2.9GHz for less money
water cooling needs a pump that makes noise.
the benefit of watercooling is not on noise is on performance if you overclock and you refrigerated your fluid on each cycle. bad things happens when pump die when you are not there to shut down the monster pc.
Re: OT: Silent Dualcore E6600@2.9GHz for less money
Also one of my favourit tools for silence: CD Bremse. This “CD bracket” slow down the DVD/CD device, the user can set the wanted speed. So, it’s possible to look DVDs with 3x speed without extra noise.
Re: OT: Silent Dualcore E6600@2.9GHz for less money
You should put the PC behind the wall, in the next room. External DVD drive and you are ready to go completly noise free.
;D
BTW I have not keept track of processors since they introduced dual core and 64bit.
Still run a P4 3200Ghz…the Pentium D of my father seems so much faster.
But I`ve read Intel got a 80core proto that does 1TerraFlop! (compared to a P4EE that does about 7-10Gigaflops)
Re: OT: Silent Dualcore E6600@2.9GHz for less money
Upgraded from E6600 (2x @2.8GHz) to Q6600 (4x @2.7GHz) and CPU case temperature is lower than befor (idle temp is much lower !!), render times are halved. Great CPU.
My overclocking BIOS settings are for E6600 and Q6600:
CPU frequency 300 (Q6600) or 312 (E6600)
DRAM DDR-644
PCI Express 100
PCI Clock 33,33
CPU voltage fixed at default 1.2750V
Re: OT: Silent Dualcore E6600@2.9GHz for less money
* Asus P5B deLuxe
* 4GB RAM Kingston PC667 (I’m not sure, but this could be a limit for overclocking, because I got the FSB at max 330 only (stable at 322) → approx. 3GHz CPU frequency)
* E6600 bzw. Q6600 (@2.7GHz now)
* HD … I can not see it now
* GeForce 7600 GT (passiv, noiseless)
* Air CPU cooler Zalman CNPS9500 (at full speed it could be more quiet)
The system need approx. 210W at the 220V side. The power supply is this one.
Temperatures: at the evening the temperature was 10° higher, it dosn’t help so much to increase the chassis fan speed, but after I open the housing, it fall again.
I think about other cooling methods and high overclocking. But it’s not so important.
Re: OT: Silent Dualcore E6600@2.9GHz for less money
Hi there,
I have a dual quad E5320 (2*4*1.86Ghz). It is very fast, and still affordable. BUT! Most apps (also rhino!!!) use only one core… So it’s only in vray that you will have 100% CPU load.
The fastest dual quad is 2*QX6700 (2*4*2.67Ghz). Don’t know what micha’s Q6600, but I guess this would be lower than 2.7Ghz? Anyway, this dual costs a fortune since MB is expensive too, and you need special expensive ram. But, the QX6700 is super fast!
I recently bought a single QX6700, and it is only 10% slower than my dual E5320. But since one core of the qx6700 is much faster, the pc performs better overall. Also for test rendering this is better, because some startup tasks for the render also only use 1 core, and the first bucket to be rendered will also be rendered quicker
So my advice, don’t go dual unless you can afford a dual QX6700. If not, just buy a single quad, but then buy the QX6700. Dual quads are great for renderfarms I guess.
Re: OT: Silent Dualcore E6600@2.9GHz for less money
My hint for a TFT → EIZO S2100. EIZO is a manufactor of hardware calibrated monitors, so I trust, that the know-how will be used for the “cheaper” one too. The monitor use a build in light sensor and dim the brightness independent from the room brightness. Nice feature, I like it.
Re: OT: Silent Dualcore E6600@2.9GHz for less money
I read some infos about AIR coolers in the last days. Result: if quiet and cool AIR cooler, than Scythe Infinity.
At the moment I have fun with undervolting. My Q6600 2.4GHz @2.7GHz at 1.185V Vc (BIOS) and lowe fan speed stay below 40°C at full load. 8)
Speedfan tell me, that under full load the Vc is 1.12V. It seems to be, testing the undervoltage is a must. If the volatge is to low, than at startup the BIOS bring a message and the value can be changed again.
Re: OT: Silent Dualcore E6600@2.9GHz for less money
Update: BIOS Vcore 1,275V + FSB 332 → 3GHz and case temp ~42°C (open PC case)
Cinebench 2003 → ~1660
At OC forums I read, if the Vcore is at standard value fixed (not auto mode) or lower, than the CPU can not be killed by overclocking, only the system could work instable.
Befor the system was instable, because the BIOS set the RAM timings per automatic, but since I set the RAM timings manualy, it works above FSB 310.
Re: OT: Silent Dualcore E6600@2.9GHz for less money
Update: the current Q6600 g0 stepping Quadcore works phantastic (ASUS P5K)-> 3.4GHz, lowest speed of a Zalman 9700 CPU cooler and CPU case temp appox. 42°C.
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