Want to make a silent pc.....

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for my daughter. This is what I have lying around.

Antec sonata case with stock psu
9800 pro (would like to remove the stock fan, suggestions for silent running)
Asus a7n8x-e
XP Barton 3200

I am going to buy the Hans g 19 inch widescreen to go with.

All she will use it for is to watch movies and use MSN and also her homework


I want to keep it as quiet as possible, your advice would be much appreciated. Ta
 
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you could buy quiet fans
AcoustiFan C-Series Ultra Quiet 120mm Fan - 3 pin (FG-008-AF)
Price: £7.95 (£9.34 Including VAT at 17.5%)
(just one example)

maybe have watercooling if you are thinking of overclocking

or (im not sure about this one) you could buy a new heatsink for the cpu (you will have to get someone to confirm that because i dont know if it makes it quieter) :D
 
I don't know the motherboard in question but if the chipset is cooled by a fan rather than a passive heatsink get a Zalman Northbridge cooler.

The graphics card would be best cooled by an arctic cooler. Arctic Cooling ATI 1 Rev.2 fits the 9800 pro and was very quiet when I had one.

For the CPU try a Zalman CNPS7000B-CU Ultra-Quiet CPU Cooler. You wont get much quieter than this.

Try and get either a Samsung or Seagate hard drive as these tend to be the quieter of the brands.

This should get you a pretty damn quiet PC without spending a bomb.
 
Silent power supply - Seasonic S12 or the Enermax?
Heatsink - Thermalright with a quiet fan of somesort.
Gfx - Get a Zalman VF900 and volt mod it. If she isn't playing games, that 9800pro is hardly going to get warm.
 
Could try a program like RivaTuner or Gainward's Expertool to try and reduce the fan speed. Works for some cards, doesn't for others.
 
since its for your daughter then watercooling is out the window.

a good quailty heatsink and slient fan it the way to go. :D
 
That wont work on a 9800pro, it doesnt do fan control. The 2 pin fan can be hooked upto a fan controller though but you'd need to remember to turn it up when playing games.
It'd be fine otherwise for all the other uses you mention
 
I might go passive on the cpu as it should never be under heavy load, and with the Thermaltake sonic tower, I'll have the optioon to add a fan if I need to and I think Ill go with the arctic cooler to blow the gpu hot air out of the case. Thanks all.
 
Youve made a good choice on the case and the rig iteself still isnt half bad. If you want you could replace the graphics card with a 9600pro/XT, but it may be too much hassle since you already have the 9800pro.

Some of my suggestions

CPU cooler: Big Typhoon (would prefer this over sonic tower as you can run the 120mm fan at a lower setting to make it very quiet, or replace the fan altogether), Sonic tower, SI-97 (ive got this running a 5volted papst on an underclocked system and it runs quiet, but would be as good as the big typhoon with a 5 volted fan)
GPU cooler: Zalman ZM80D-HP (or whatever its called - blue with dual heatpipe), Zalman ZM80C-HP with a 120mm fan bolted on :D (cools both gfx card and NB in my setup),ArticCooler (but i dont really find these quiet), Zalamn flower gfx coolers (never used these so cant comment)
Northbridge: Zalman ZM47BJ blue chipset cooler
Hard Disk: Samsung

Hope this helps
 
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