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| The Lumberjackass:
it is a positive , but not when it sounds like a truck. the whole purpose of finding a different 4 pin fan to begin with is to quieten the pc , not to increase airflow. |
| bkenobi:
Keep in mind that the volume of the fan goes up with the CPU work load. In a gaming system, you are likely going to have game sounds going when the CPU is heavily loaded, so it won't be that noticeable. Hopefully, when the system is idle, the CPU is not loaded, so the fan should be quiet. That's how my company Dell laptop works. When I have a heavy analysis task running the fan kicks on and it's pretty damn loud. When I'm idling, it's very quiet. |
| The Lumberjackass:
im driving a 24" lcd in my cab . mame doesnt use the gpu to process the graphics , it uses the cpu instead. so thats gonna put a fair amount of work on the intel thats in there. the dell xps 600 i have is constantly loud , even with game noise . its the way most of dell's flagship pc's are . its so they last longer out of the box. im not saying that i dont appreciate the cooling on offer , i just wish they would make replacement fans or even upgrades for users who get sick of listening to the constant drone of a loud fan . regardless , ive found the culprits which are causing most of the noise and intend on changing them . its the exhaust fans on the power supply . they must be only an inch in diameter , but they sound like a jet in motion. i need to rip open the psu and see how they are wired. |
| Malenko:
maybe I'm looking at this the wrong way but why not just remove the blades from Dell fan (no noise or BIOS message) and then run fans you want off a molex splitter? |
| newmanfamilyvlogs:
I would imagine that unless you broke the blades off perfectly you'd end up with it out of balance.. then it'd vibrate horribly. From what I've read looking at these Dell 4 pin fans, the BIOS flags that error message if it detects sub 1300rpm speed. Btw, I also read on some models of Dell that turning off the 'error on no keyboard' message in the bios would also disable that error message. Would be worth giving it a shot. |
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