Silence is golden.

[Edgedamage]

I bought this cheesy all in one motherboard that had cpu with fan. The system works ok for mame and surfing the net while my main system does video editing. But the problem I had was that the cpu fan sounded like a hair dryer.
Pic of evil fan.

[Edgedamage]

I bought a 60 to 80mm Fan Adapter. Wow the system is now almost silent now and the CPU temps dropped a few 44c to 41c.

[Edgedamage]

Pic of the 60mm to 80mm

[Edgedamage]

A good use for these things would be to quiet up a comp in a countertop machine or cocktail cab.

[pointdablame]

Most good heatsinks have the ability to accept 80mm and 92mm fans out of the box.  It's only the retail (IMO crappy) heatsinks that you have to worry about the hair dryer fans.  I'm sure its MUCH better than what you had, but if you want quiet, you should have gotten a 60mm to 92mm adapter and a Panaflo.  Then that system would be near dead silent.  It looks good though, I'm sure it's a lot less annoying now

PS - don't anyone jump down my throat about calling retail heatsinks crap.  I just either a) overclock the hell out of my systems, or b) want them as quiet as possible, so the retail heatsinks are a no no for me.

[Sylentwulf]

Hey, retail heatsinks ARE crap. They usually don't even use thermal glue, just that stupid black cracking rubber sticker THING.

[Edgedamage]

Most good heatsinks have the ability to accept 80mm and 92mm fans out of the box.  It's only the retail (IMO crappy) heatsinks that you have to worry about the hair dryer fans.  I'm sure its MUCH better than what you had, but if you want quiet, you should have gotten a 60mm to 92mm adapter and a Panaflo.  Then that system would be near dead silent.  It looks good though, I'm sure it's a lot less annoying now

PS - don't anyone jump down my throat about calling retail heatsinks crap.  I just either a) overclock the hell out of my systems, or b) want them as quiet as possible, so the retail heatsinks are a no no for me.

Hey when the motherboard cost $100  I would expect no less than a cheap heatsink.

[pointdablame]

Oh of course.  It just, IMO, no matter how cheap you get a computer/motherboard/whatever, a good heatsink is always $20 well spent.

[JustMichael]

My aftermarket heatsink works just fine at the lowest speed setting.  If I turn the speed all the way up, it sounds just like a leaf blower (no joke).

[Edgedamage]

Hmmm would that be a volcano 7? With the three speed fan switch.

[JustMichael]

I dug up the spare one I have to see what it is.  It's a CoolMaster X-Dream.  They were cheap at Fry's quite a while back.  When the fan is turned all the way up (going from 3500rpm to 5000rpm), the cpu temp only drops another 3 to 5 degrees Celcius.  

[patrickl]

if you want quiet, you should have gotten a 60mm to 92mm adapter and a Panaflo.

I thought the Papst Sintec fans made less sound. Papst have a 12dB(A) 80mm fan and I couldn't find a Panaflo fan with a rating of below 21dB(A).