They add complexity and therefore mess.
what's the point. If you want a quite system you wont be turning the fans up. Just buy decent fans in the first place or volt mod fans.
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How quiet and cool are your PC's - Air cooled only
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They add complexity and therefore mess.
what's the point. If you want a quite system you wont be turning the fans up. Just buy decent fans in the first place or volt mod fans.
I have a Silverstone fortress with rear fan changed to Xigimatek and TRUE with Xigimatek fans in push pull, all my fans are connected to the Be Quiet PSU fan outs which controls the voltage so they are all running lower than stock.
It's so quiet it's hard to tell if it is actually running, situated under my desk, it also cools enough to keep my 4Ghz overclock stable.
It's so quiet it's hard to tell if it is actually running, situated under my desk, it also cools enough to keep my 4Ghz overclock stable.
Its only mess if you dont take the time to sort it out.
My fan controller only added one cable - the molex power connector, the rest of the wires were fan wires that were already in the case, they just needed some intelligent routing to get them out of sight.
The point is to have a system that can do both, quiet operation when doing nothing taxing and cool operation on premium performance components when overclocking and pushing the system.
Still ahve to find places for fan controllers, adds cost and space.
if you do a proper job you can have it near silent running even when overclcoked. People who wont total silence wont raise the fan speeds. Making it pointless.
Some people fan controllers are good but for most people it is unnecessary.
My main reason for a fan controller was because i was running a q6600 which i was clocking to 3.8ghz, at the time i was running 5x2000 rpm sharkoon silent eagles, 2 on a TRUE and 3 as case fans, i only ever ramped the fans up for benching/prime testing. I later switched to the q9550 which runs a lot cooler than the q6600, hence i changed 3 of the fans to 400-1200 rpm pwm fans (extremely quiet) i still keep 2 of the 2000 rpms on the controller but they spend 90% of the time on the lowest setting.
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My second pc is air cooled and when i start it up i have to check to make sure it's running because it's so quiet. Spec is:
Intel Pentium Dual Core E6300@ 3.6Ghz (for the moment).
Zalman CNPS 9500 cpu cooler (came with the mobo).
MSI P45 Platinum (stock cooling as it's very good).
Sapphire 3850 Pro with Akasa Neo Vortexx.
2x 1Gb Kingston PC2 6400 LL.
Creative Audigy 2 ZS.
Coolermaster Storm Scout.
Enermax Pro 82+ 385w.
Zalman ZM-MFC2 Multifunction controller.
Fans in the Scout are 2x 140mm red led Yate Loon's and 2x 120mm Xilence red led fans.
The case is excellent for cooling although not normally my style of case, it was cheap, £65, and i saw a couple of good reviews so went for it. Brilliantly built and with excellent cable management. I only paid £66 for the MSI P45 Platinum with the Zalman cooler (P45 Zilent) which was a steal too!! The 140mm fans are running at 740rpm and the 120mm fans running at 800rpm. Temps in the case are very good. SB is at 28 degrees, NB at 26 Degrees, Memory at 26 degrees and the GPU idles at 32 degrees and hit's 49 degrees at load. Could'nt tell you what the cpu is at idle as it has stuck idle sensors but under Linx it hits 49 degrees with the cpu fan set to a very quiet 1500rpm. Unfortunately it can't go any lower but at least when i improve the overclock i have an extra 1000rpm to increase if i need to (CNPS 9500 full speed is 2500rpm).
Intel Pentium Dual Core E6300@ 3.6Ghz (for the moment).
Zalman CNPS 9500 cpu cooler (came with the mobo).
MSI P45 Platinum (stock cooling as it's very good).
Sapphire 3850 Pro with Akasa Neo Vortexx.
2x 1Gb Kingston PC2 6400 LL.
Creative Audigy 2 ZS.
Coolermaster Storm Scout.
Enermax Pro 82+ 385w.
Zalman ZM-MFC2 Multifunction controller.
Fans in the Scout are 2x 140mm red led Yate Loon's and 2x 120mm Xilence red led fans.
The case is excellent for cooling although not normally my style of case, it was cheap, £65, and i saw a couple of good reviews so went for it. Brilliantly built and with excellent cable management. I only paid £66 for the MSI P45 Platinum with the Zalman cooler (P45 Zilent) which was a steal too!! The 140mm fans are running at 740rpm and the 120mm fans running at 800rpm. Temps in the case are very good. SB is at 28 degrees, NB at 26 Degrees, Memory at 26 degrees and the GPU idles at 32 degrees and hit's 49 degrees at load. Could'nt tell you what the cpu is at idle as it has stuck idle sensors but under Linx it hits 49 degrees with the cpu fan set to a very quiet 1500rpm. Unfortunately it can't go any lower but at least when i improve the overclock i have an extra 1000rpm to increase if i need to (CNPS 9500 full speed is 2500rpm).