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A Silent PC
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BY LOYD CASE
When your gaming
PC is as loud as a
refrigerator, you know
you’ve got trouble.
HIGH-PERFORMANCE PERSONAL COMPUTERS ARE THERMAL
nightmares. As GPUs and CPUs have become more powerful, their heat
output has skyrocketed. AMD’s top-of-the-line Athlon 64 X2 4800+
is rated at 105W, while Intel’s Pentium D 840 runs even higher, at
130W—as Paris Hilton would say, that’s hot. The typical way to dissipate
all that heat? Throw extra cooling at the system—in other words, add
more fans. Pretty soon, you’ve got more fans in your system than a B-36 bomber had propellers—and
your system is as loud, too. You can’t control the heat output (without moving to
lower-performing components), but you can control the noise. Read on to find out how.
YYePG Proudly Presents, Thx for Support
Photograph by Bonnie Holland
MAY 9, 2006 PC MAGAZINE 91