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11 Dec 2006 The sound of one hand tapping

[Misc] I noticed that it had been quite a while since my desktop PC had seen any action. And there's a very good reason for that; it's cpu fan. My God is it loud! You could hear it when you were in the other side of the house. It's like a five year old kid screaming really loudly in a high pitch voice in the supermarket, and you're trying to sush it up but it won't and everyone starts staring at you with their disapproving eyes. It's not my fault, that was what came with the package! Stop staring!

Anyway it was time for me to do something about this. Time for a new cooling fan. Something very quiet, something silent.

Now my desktop, once in its prime back in 2002, is an older timer so I will be limiting it to be the dedicated DVD player with extra gubbins rather than a pwer gamers PC. It's an Athlon XP with a Socket A motherboard so my choices were gonna be limited. I did consider getting a Zalman Super Flower Cooler. After all it's big, quiet, made of copper, it's bound to be silent, right? But I'm feeling a bit cheap and didn't want to shell out that much money for just a fan.

Then my friend WiGz gave me some guidance. He pointed me to this charming fan, the Arctic Cooling Copper Silent 3 Socket A CPU Cooler. That's more like it. It seems to be just as good on paper and it's the third of the price.

So I got it, fitted it in my PC and, well, hear for yourselves:

Before with the old fan
After with the new fan
After with the new fan and pc case fan disconnect

A quieter PC and cooler too. Bargain! Definately worth having if you need it.

Now I can enjoy my collection in peace.

Posted at: 22:30 PM

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