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Perhaps my fan's rpm is high (2700) but for me the Sonata is hardly silent. What are your experiences?
Originally posted by: ronnn
I found my sonota far from quiet, but when I checked most of the noise seemed to be coming from my 2.4c stock hsf and 9700pro oem. Probably tommorrow the zalman heat pipe and hsf should arrive. I am hoping this will be much quieter....
Originally posted by: DancingBear
Open the side and one by one stop each fan by pressing your finger down into the middle of it (gently). I did this when I first got my Sonata. The loudest fans (in order) were video card, CPU HSF & Northbridge HSF. Once I quieted those down, the hard drives drove me nuts with noise. Replaced that with a new Seagate 7200.7. After all that, the rear 120mm is the only stock fan left.
What I am saying is that I really doubt that the case fan is causing your noise problem.
Originally posted by: SithSolo1
Won't doing that damage the fan?Originally posted by: DancingBear Open the side and one by one stop each fan by pressing your finger down into the middle of it (gently). I did this when I first got my Sonata. The loudest fans (in order) were video card, CPU HSF & Northbridge HSF. Once I quieted those down, the hard drives drove me nuts with noise. Replaced that with a new Seagate 7200.7. After all that, the rear 120mm is the only stock fan left. What I am saying is that I really doubt that the case fan is causing your noise problem.
Originally posted by: mbackof
I have a Sonata with an AMD 2500+ (overclocked to 3200+) with the stock sink/fan, a Seagate HD, and the only fan is the stock 120mm that came with the case. The video card is a NVIDIA Ti4200 which has a small fan on the card. It makes a little bit of noise when it starts up, but after 30 seconds it is pretty quiet. It isn't silent, but it is very quiet and at peak CPU only gets up to 51C \idle 41C. I'm considering adding another case fan to the front to get the temp down a bit, but it is very quiet. My Athlon Thunderbird 900 sounds like a vacuum cleaner.
Originally posted by: DancingBear
I am not convinced that a front fan makes that much difference in the Sonata because the air that it pulls in is heated up by the hard drives. You should look at an aftermarket HSF. I went the cheap route and bought a GC-68 from SVC. I also tried the GC-69, but the fan was significantly louder Then I had to change out the fan to a quieter one. It was worth it because not only are they quieter, but provide *much* better cooling.