Newbie needs some help with a PC fan

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Dety

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Hi,

I have a 3.0 ghz intel 630 hyperthreading processor with a stock intel C25704-002 processor fan. I have noticed it has gotten extremely loud & i would like to change it.

Not sure if a C25704-002 processor fan is a 80mm, 92mm or 120mm? I did measure my fan i got 3.75 inches or 95.25mm so i guess it must be a 92mm fan? I wonder if i can hold a 120mm fan? perhaps my motherboard details at the bottom can help.

What CFM requirements are need to cool such a processor?

Looking on goggle i see some people really suggest the "SilenX" PC fans others say :

"Some swear by these fans, but this company makes simply outrageous claims about their noise/airflow ratings. Very misleading to those new to silencing who have yet to learn not to rely solely on manufacturers' decibel boastings."

I am asking your opinion what would be one of the quietest processor fans to cool a 3.0ghz intel processor? I dont have a problem paying extra if it's worth it.

3.0 ghz intel 630 hyperthreading processor
ASUS P5Gd1 motherboard
775 socket

P.S

I am so new to PC hardware that wouldn't even be installing this fan myself.

Hopefully i gave you enough information to help me out.

Thank you all for your opinions.
 
Areyou sure the noise is from the cpu fan? Any wire touching it? Since you arenot doing any installation yourself, Takeing it to a tech shop may be the cheapest,quickest solution. I have stock Intel fan on this 3.0 Prescott and it's quiet. All my noise comes from the seven case fans.. Good luck
 
Thanks for your reply Gregg.

Yes i am sure it's the cpu fan i stopped the fan for a few seconds & all the noise stopped.

"Takeing it to a tech shop may be the cheapest,quickest solution."

True but i know so little about what fan i need or should get from a tech shop that they might put another lemon in my system. So i thought i should ask for advise & buy a new fan then take it in to get installed.
 
Socket 775 & Socket LGA775 are the same thing?

If so i am really thinking of buying this heatsink & fan for $45 US or $52 CAN.

Here is the link to this heatsink & fan Thermaltake Blue Orb II

It will work with my ASUS P5Gd1 motherboard as it's socket 775 right?

Thanks for any help.

Compatibility

Intel Pentium D (Socket LGA775)
Intel Pentium 4 (Socket LGA775)
Intel Celeron D (Socket LGA775)
AMD Athlon X2 (Socket 939)
AMD Athlon 64 FX (Socket 939 / 940)
AMD Athlon 64 (Socket 754 / 939)
AMD Sempron (Socket 754)
AMD Opteron (Socket 940)
 
LOUD Processor Fan and Loud Hard Disk Drives!

Well, I'll tell you what--this is for sure: Back in the day when I upgraded to a 450-MHz processor, I was told I needed to have this specific such-and-such fan, or my processor would burn up and die! Well, that was back in the days when manufacturers seemed still not so sure about how to make the quietest fans, so I ended up with this very, VERY loud and annoying fan (just shy of bearing vibration noise)! Oh boy, and this wasn't just the noise of airflow! This fan's motor alone was one hell of a screamer (more buzzy noise than whiny whirring noise)! I had that fan installed for a good bit too long, but I'm glad for when I still finally got a clue to go fan-hunting again and then discovered a much quieter processor fan!

Here's the scoop: Do not ever, ever buy an AOC processor fan! It will buzz you to deafness!

What they seem to be doing now is going with more heatsink and less fan than before. Yeah, you don't necessarily have to have a bigger (either wider or deeper or both), louder fan to cool off your newer, faster, hotter processor. You can beat the heat with the same quiet fan but just have to have a bigger heatsink! So my next processor upgrade included a SMALLER, much quieter fan, but with quite a bigger heatsink!

But I'm still not even caught up now. Since the time my mom bought an HP Pavillion computer, I've learned that now there are even QUIETER processor fans out there that I wish I had known about. Well, so it's time for me to go fan-hunting again! Oh, yeah, I did that some few months ago, but those fans are like $30! Holy geesh, at least twice as much as the price I was used to paying. Are there any near-silent ones with big heatsinks that only still cost about $10-15?


Now the next thing to do is to replace that last noisy hard disk drive!

I'm currently using 3 hard disk drives, and the spindle motor of that oldest one (76/"82"-GB PATA Maxtor) is rather noticeable. But the funny thing is that I used to have a newer, 167/"180"-GB Western Digital PATA drive that was even LOUDER! Hmm, I thought they got quieter as the newer ones came out, but see, not always! I've removed it now because after some reasonably good (but not best) length of service, it started clicking loudly sometimes and started to not work that well, making me think it was going to have a major breakdown soon. (Fortunately I had a good backup session just in time!) I think I would have eventually gotten smart and removed it because of noise alone. But on the other hand, I do have another WD HDD (232/"250-GB PATA) that IS VERY quiet! The same goes for my newest Maxtor (465/"500"-GB SATA) drive. Likin' these new QUIET drives!

Mike Christensen
 
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In future please make a new thread rather than resurrecting an old one.

To answer your question:
You're not going to get a high performance, silent HSF for $10-$15. The Arctic Cooling Alpine 7 would be my pick within that price range, but spending more money would be worthwhile. We also need to know which socket you're using in order to determine which HSFs are compatible.

You will find that larger fans are actually quieter than smaller ones. This is because they need not rotate as fast in order to move the same amount of air.
 
What's Wrong With...?/Quiet CPU Fans, Cont.

Hey, Ceewi1, who was "resurrecting" an old post? I wasn't trying to do that. I just found this in a search and decided to respond to it. And even if someone was "resurrecting" an old posting, what's so "wrong" with that (according to you)?

What I meant by a bigger fan vs. a smaller one, in case you didn't notice before, is not always a wider one, but sometimes a deeper one. My old, really noisy fan is deeper than my newer, quieter one. Now maybe that contributes indirectly somewhat, or maybe it doesn't. But one thing is that this one has less heatsink, so maybe the fan was designed to spin faster to move more heat away. However, the newer fan/heatsink system has more heatsink to wick up the heat, so the fan might spin a bit slower. But maybe that's not really connected to that this newer fan happens not to be as deep. But at any rate, I bet the old AOC fan's motor is just not as well-designed or not as well-equipped in the noise-reduction department.

As for the type of socket, that wouldn't really be as relevant, except that certain heatsink mounts only fit around certain sizes of sockets. But mine's a 949, so it's one in a range of sockets that can have the new turn-snap heatsink mount installed (which it does).

So you just said that I won't find a highly quiet fan with enough CFM for my processor (an Athlon 3000+) in the $10-15 price range, but then the next thing you say is that there is one? How does that work?

Well anyway, thanks for the information.

Mike
 
MaxxFordham said:
Hey, Ceewi1, who was "resurrecting" an old post? I wasn't trying to do that. I just found this in a search and decided to respond to it. And even if someone was "resurrecting" an old posting, what's so "wrong" with that (according to you)?
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Since this thread is over 9 months old, and the user hasn't returned, it is safe to say he's no longer interested in discussion of the problem. Resurrecting old threads simply clutters up the forum, and users who don't read post dates may waste time trying to answer a problem that no longer exists. If you have something meaningful to add to an old thread, by all means bump it, but when asking your own question, you should always make a new thread.

What I meant by a bigger fan vs. a smaller one, in case you didn't notice before, is not always a wider one, but sometimes a deeper one. My old, really noisy fan is deeper than my newer, quieter one. Now maybe that contributes indirectly somewhat, or maybe it doesn't. But one thing is that this one has less heatsink, so maybe the fan was designed to spin faster to move more heat away. However, the newer fan/heatsink system has more heatsink to wick up the heat, so the fan might spin a bit slower. But maybe that's not really connected to that this newer fan happens not to be as deep. But at any rate, I bet the old AOC fan's motor is just not as well-designed or not as well-equipped in the noise-reduction department.
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Certainly a larger heatsink helps to dissapate more heat, but design features are every bit as important as sheer size.

As for the type of socket, that wouldn't really be as relevant, except that certain heatsink mounts only fit around certain sizes of sockets.
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Bingo. For an AMD system, there's the Alpine 64 (Alpine 7 will still work, it just uses a different fan connection).

But mine's a 949, so it's one in a range of sockets that can have the new turn-snap heatsink mount installed (which it does).
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939? There is no socket 949

So you just said that I won't find a highly quiet fan with enough CFM for my processor (an Athlon 3000+) in the $10-15 price range, but then the next thing you say is that there is one? How does that work?
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It's the best of a relatively mediocre lineup, and admittedly not too bad at all. You can get something much better with a bigger budget, though.
 
Didn't Notice, Didn't Know/Thanks

Hi, Moderator,

Okay, well I didn't notice the date there (now that I look at it, I see that it's pretty small), and I didn't notice the rule about that. Okay, I think I understand that explanation. At least I know the rule now.

Yeah, I was guessing that a fan with a bigger heatsink would be designed not to have to spin as fast (and if I remember right, from looking at the speeds in the BIOS settings, this one doesn't spin as fast--but I could still use an even quieter one now), but then I was also guessing that maybe lower-quality motor design would contribute, also (hence my mention of AOC fans)--which I see that you're saying, too.

Heh, oh yeah, socket 939! (Oops! :D )

Cool, thanks for your input about really quiet fans! Okay, so what is in the design of a super-quiet fan that must still spin pretty fast (although not necessarily quite as fast as the one with the shorter heatsink)?

Thanks,
Mike
 
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