A new height in noise

[HappyCracker]

Call me crazy, but I picked up a Delta 92 mm fan for the front of my case thinking, well it's bigger, therefore it will be quieter. Nope! This thing actually drowns out completely the standard Delta 38 60mm, so I stuck that thing back in. I think it helps me sleep. With as many people going for quiet machines, I figured I should go a different direction. And what can I say? It took my XP 2500 with stock HS (Delta 38 on top tho) up to 2243. Not too bad, I think it can go higher, but F@H always crashes in the first few minutes if it's in the foreground. Still haven't figured that one out, but if it's hidden, purrs like a kitten.....

 

[PIMPBOT5000]

Its because when its in teh background it runs at a lower thread priority therefore it gets less cycles.

 

[oddjob303]

lol thats a sick amount of noise. I thought a 2500 would hit the 3000+ category w/ that racket maker. I mean those TBRED B's can hit that area so i thought a 2500 would do that fairly easy. Oh well guess it shows you how lazy i am and not keepin up w/ my reading

 

[bgeh]

Originally posted by: HappyCracker
Call me crazy, but I picked up a Delta 92 mm fan for the front of my case thinking, well it's bigger, therefore it will be quieter. Nope! This thing actually drowns out completely the standard Delta 38 60mm, so I stuck that thing back in. I think it helps me sleep. With as many people going for quiet machines, I figured I should go a different direction. And what can I say? It took my XP 2500 with stock HS (Delta 38 on top tho) up to 2243. Not too bad, I think it can go higher, but F@H always crashes in the first few minutes if it's in the foreground. Still haven't figured that one out, but if it's hidden, purrs like a kitten.....

try increasing the voltage.
if F@H crashes, it means your rig is not stable

 

[dnoyeb]

Perhaps its your case. Bigger fans tend to produce lower Hz sounds. Lower Hz sounds dont travel as well. But if your case has
a certain tune, if could amplify that Hz sound. Did the bigger fan actually spin at a lower speed? thats the point of the bigger fan you know?!

 

[cow123]

actually i believe lower frequency sounds travel much further than high pitched ones

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Delta and quite are normally not words associated with each other

 

[HappyCracker]

By no means is Delta quiet. I have no idea how fast this thing is spinning, but hold on...My fan, by Delta. there you go. If I could open my case and stop the fan, I'd get you the exact model, but I've been cut by one of these things before; they go down to the bone. About folding; I think the crucial moments are the first few minutes of it, because my system runs fine otherwise. Quake with nary a hiccup. Hold on, lemme go play a bit....mwahahah. back with results soon

 

[HappyCracker]

2286.55 @ ~1.78 vcore, ~2.8 vdimm. I say around (~) because those aren't the exact values I set, but I forgot what they're set at and those are the values I get from Hardware Monitor.

 

[HappyCracker]

Just in case anyone was curious, this fan is the FFB0912EHE, the next to last one one that list. Oddly enough, they rate it at 1A, but my fan is labelled 1.5. hmmm

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I should have mentioned the F@H (Gromacs especially) will put the smackdown on your CPU harder than P95TT does. I tested an overclock using P95TT with looping 3Dmark & memtest86 stable and had it crash less than an hour into a Gromacs.