Socket 939....

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I have a perfectly good AMD Athlon 4200+ processor and an Asus A8N-E motherboard , socket 939 natch.

Trouble is the little fan on the motherboard on the NVidia 4 chip is noiser than anything else...if I disconnect it it gets red hot...if I leave it running it really is a noisy little bugger. Never noticed it before in my old rig as I had tons more stuff in it but on reflection most of the noise must have been coming from this tiny little fan

Trying to find areasonably...cheap...decnt 939 motherboard is very difficult...

Thinking I might be able to replace the Nvidia chip fan with a heat sink...

Any ideas peeps...please....
 
Thanks for the quick reply. I see a lot of items refering to "northbridge" which I'm guessing is the general term for that and similar chips. Couple of Zalman non fan based coolers here....

I'll check out the Thermaright Sli one...the PC is my spare one that the wife and daughter browse the internet and do homework on...not heavily stressed at all
 
Great advice guys...thank you...I knew this would be the place to come. Thought about a bit of WD40 as well...and I have kept the old fan just in case....man that thing spins at over 7k rpm....

Been having a little play around and decided to try fitting one of these

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SY-007-ZA&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=399

Obviously totally silent and it does get very hot so its doing its job....fitted a case fan above it on the side panel blowing onto the heatsink...not sure it needs it but just in case...it does add a noise back as they are NOT ultra quiet.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-023-AK&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=819

Mind you I did have it running off the PSU so it was flat out. Trying to plug it into one of the MB fan sockets to see if I can reduce the speed. But not convinced the onboard CHA1 control is that effective. Might as well go for one of those Zalman Fan mates and reduce the speed right down so I just have a gentle flow of air across the heatsink.

Next challenge is to replace the stock AMD 4200+ cooler...which is, I agree, a great processor..... with something reasonably budget priced but quiet. Having said that I have turned on the Asus Q Fan controller thingy in the bios and that reduces the CPU fan speed to reflect the work...its gone very quiet. As this PC only does internet and a bit of tablet work for art that might just do it.
 
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Wow...you bet it does. Thanks oddboy...

I have a couple of tasks to carry out now.....

The "Internet" PC seems to be running OK with the passive Nvidia4 chip with that fan blowing over it. But I like the idea of adding more fans and a controller...which is what I will now do. Oh...I have a door on the front of my PC tower...which I assume is no prblem with eitehr of those controllers ?

I have bought new "gear" for my own PC and left the Asus/AMD 4200+ in that internet system as is with just a slight tweak to CPU volts...and mem settings. Nothing more "exotic" required for now as it will not be doing anything heavy

My own machine has

AMD Phenom II x4 955 runing @3.62mhz
Giga GA MA790XT mobo
GSkill DDR3 1600 dual mem.

Shamefully I still have a 7300GT graphics card...yes...stop laughing :D...I just can't make my mind up what to go for.
 
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That's kind of what I've done with the graphics...its does everything I need at the moment...I'll wait until something I really want to do forces a purchase.
 
Good tip...must be the shortage or perceived shortage of socket 939 processors....I could really find a new Mobo that was 939...

Ok time to ebay it....cheers
 
Upgrading to a latest CPU has to be a good idea. Slight shaggy dog story...slightly off topic

My son is at Uni and his final year project is to build a virtual network on one PC using HyperV and Windows Server 2008...he spent a year at MS last year so knows the stuff inside out. However his excellent Dell Studio Hybrid...only 12 months old... will not run Hyper V, virtuliation software to create VMs as it has an Intel processor and they are not very forthcoming with compatability with HyperV..a key MS server product. AMD are slight better but only in their latest CPUsdoesn't have


Just did emergency purchase of an

AMD Athlon x2 240 2.8ghz AM3 - 2mb cache
MSI GF 615 M P33 -with integrated GeForce 6150E mATX board
4bg Kingston DDR3 1066mhz mem

A cheapo case and PSU and he says it goes like a rocket....in this case the latest type CPU was required to run the app because of the lack of VT-x technology in the CPU which slightly older CPUs don't have. Its a simple non high powered PC, very basic....but it just goes to show what keeping up with the latest technology can do, arguably more so than just pure grunt.....

So swapping ny 4200+ just makes even more sense to me....
 
:)

Terrible....:D

Just remembered that the case I've used for the "internet" PC has no door...no no problem..and yes, it has Windows...

Good idea on the graphics card....one advantage of the constant releases of technology is that, usually, the "older" stuff gets cheaper and cheaper. Be it all 2nd hand. it end to lag behind as well...most do I think, the high end gamers can't wait to get the latest. Which is fair enough, I can understand that.

ATIs are very good I have to say. I use NVidia out of habit but colleagues who have ATI s all love them. These companies play catch up with each other all the time of course. For the "Internet" PC I bought a Sapphire (ATi) HD 4550 512MB DDR3 so an older card but its brilliant. Horses for courses.

I hate noisy PCs though and too much high end stuff means being creative, expensive usually, in keeping it cool and quiet.
 
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