Joerg Johannes wrote: > > Hi list > > My power supply takes warm air from inside the PC case to cool itself. > As Athlon processors (especially >1000 MHz) tend to produce lots of > heat, the temperature-sensitive power supply fans turn faster and > faster, making lots of noise. (When I start the box, I don't hear it at > all, but 10 minutes later, I wish back to my old one...) > So my idea is: I open the power supply, flip the fan so that it blows > cool air from outside into the case, voila, much less noise. Is this a > good idea or rather stupid? > > thanks > > joerg >
OK. Thanks everybody. I think I'll leave my power supply alone, put my computer under my desk and look for a less noisy power supply. Putting the box in another room is not very easy, because I need the 3D-accelerated graphics from my geforce card, which I cannot export via network... joerg -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000.
