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Air Flow

Aug 12, 2005 2:31AM PDT

Hey guys,
I just built a pc for recording and editing audio. It's a smokin' machine but the fans are killing me. I guess I need to get silent fans..but with those the air flow will cut in half. How much air do I need going in and out? Will two fans be ok? (one in, one out) I have one 120mm and three 80mm. My goal is to get it as quiet as possible with enough airflow. Also, someone told me I should have more air going in that out (which is hard because I have the 120mm pushing out). Is this true? Thanks to anyone who can help.

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Consider this.
Aug 12, 2005 2:48AM PDT

My lowly p3-600 did audio recording just fine. Did you take a step to some barn burner PC that needs a lot of cooling?

Lookup silentpc.com for examples of quiet PCs.

Bob

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Air Flow In and Out
Aug 12, 2005 3:31AM PDT

Smokin Machine that tell me you have a hot Machine the table go like this for every fan you have air coming in you should have one blowing air out you don't won't to create a pocket of air in your machine.As for silents they do have fans that run silent but all so some programs that use more mem cause the fans to work harder.
LEONARD HARRIS

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what's the temp inside your case?
Aug 12, 2005 3:34AM PDT

cpu?hdd?mobo? what are <- these temps?

2 fans should be enough unless your system is running hotter.

look at fan controllers to adjust the noise level, add sound dampening stuff to your case. look around pcworld.com as i know they had a huge article on how to quiet your pc.

maybe replace fans with quieter ones? use speedfan? you can use speedfan to adjust the speed of your fans w/o buying a fan controller. what's your psu? i know that antec's psus have fan only molex connectors so that the psu regualates the case fans to the lowest possible rpm and goes faster when the system gets hotter.

konny