These days I'm doing more development work at the PC. I'm noticing the fan
noise from my PC becoming more intrusive and I'm also finding it running
hot even when idle. I have tried different thermal compound (Artic Silver
5) application methods with two different standard Intel fan/heatsinks but
I cannot seem to keep the temperature down and thus the fan noise to an
acceptable level. The CPU is a 3Ghz P4 which are known to produce a lot of
heat so this may just be normal operation.
Having given up making this set-up quiet and wanting something with a bit
more horsepower, I want to upgrade to something quieter. I'm planning to
buy a motherboard bundle from eBay that features a Core 2 Duo (eg. E6750)
as I understand that these run much cooler. As for the fan I was thinking
of fitting an aftermarket CPU cooler, has anyone got any experience with
the Zalman type fan such as this:
http://www.zalman.co.kr/eng/product/Product_Read.asp?idx=164
Do they really make a difference?
Thanks!
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