Has any ever tried this? Now that I've done the overclocking, which I'm quickly over. I'm now interested in making my pc is lil more quieter. I know it can now be silent unless I put expensive Zalman heatsinks all over the place, but I would interested in knowing if anyone has ever replace their Case Fan with their CPU fan. You figure the Case fan is larger and spins at about half the speed, but it should produce a decent amount, if not more airflow to keep the CPU cool. Ideas anyone. In addition, how would you quieter your PSU down without purchasing a new one? I've noticed this to be the loudest component in a pc. TECHZAPORT OUT!!!

solution to noisy pcs 100% effective. buy load speakers or connect your pc to an amp. vibrate hell out of your walls. your pc will hardly be noticeable then Athlon xp 2000+ @1.7 pc 2100 256mb ram radeon 8500 win xp home oem several other things new pc on way

The saddest thing is that I usually leave my music on with my Subwoofer's bass high so it drowns out the computer. That's starting to get a lil old now though. I need to make this pc quiet quick because it's been getting on my nerves for the past month especially when I download things at night. My PC sounds like a damn refrigerator or AC on high. I've narrowed the noise makers down to the PSU and CPU fan. I refuse to pay $100 for a quiet PSU fan so if someone could provide any solution I would definitely appreciate it. TECHZAPORT OUT!!!

Check your temps now Change all your fans including the psu fan to 7v but not the cpu fan http://people.freenet.de/s.urfer/7vtrick.htm http://www.overclockers.com/tips766/ check temps again replace 60mm cpu fan with 80mm fan on top of a 60>80mm adapter check temps again use 7v trick on cpu fan check temps again. Pick the noise level and temp level among these options that gives you peace. Some can be peaceful at higher temps than others. But your system will be stable using any of the above combinations. Links here http://computing.net/hardware/wwwboard/forum/25653.html Or skip the 7v trick and just use all low-rpm fans. In fact I think the fan in the link above is low rpm so you might as well leave it at 12v

Thanks johnoh I'll definitely check those links out. Anyone else? TECHZAPORT OUT!!!

All case fans come with a dba rating, the lower the dba the less noise, you probably got a bunch of ones rated at 30-38, replacing the with 23-26 will make a major difference in sound. theres also a site which lets you hear the fans sounds, good luck.

Man what a difference in sound that 80mm makes. I bought an adapter yesterday from Compusa who had it for only $5. I was surprised because I thought they would charge some absolutely ridiculous price. I setup my CPU with the adapter and threw a 80mm thermal adjusting fan that I had laying around on the CPU. I had an issue starting up my PC because my PC wouldn't recognize it as a CPU fan and my machine will not start up without a fan. I hooked up and the old fan and changed that Fan Off setting in my BIOS and everything came up fine. My 80mm CPU Fan was running at about 2570rpm and keeping my machine around the same temperatures as my 60mm fan at about half the noise so I'm extremely happy with this simple mod. Next thing to conquer is the loud PSU fan noise. I think I might just purchase a PSU with a 120mm fan if the price is right or just deal with the noise though because I refuse spend to much on something that I could deal with I tested PRIME95 to get the temperature going and it kept my machine at 55c at full load so I'm happy with that. My machine normal idles somewhere between 40-50 depending on the ambient temperature. I have one of those Palamino chips, which I've noticed no matter what you do it stays at 45c and higher usually. Oh well my machine has been running fine for 2yrs so I'm not even worried. Thanks all for your input. TECHZAPORT OUT!!!