on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 06:20:32PM -0500, Christopher Mosley (cmosley@voicenet.com) wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 idalton@ferret.phonewave.net wrote:
<...>
> This outfit did not sell "coolers" in the belief that the local
> separation into hot and cold was energy intensive and in the long run
> just created more heat inside the PC that would eventualy have to be
> removed from the P.C via a fan.
While this is generally true, several options mitigate:
- Coolers might be attached to an external heat exchanger. Ambient
cooling from the box exterior is more feasible.
- As others have noted, significant fan noise is generated not from
the fan itself, but the sounding-board properties of the
motherboard and attached components. Moving the fan location to a
more rigid portion of the case, and applying acoustical damping to
it, would probably result in an overall quieter design.
Cheers.
--
Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal
http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
Attachment:
pgpr2n52k3p07.pgp
Description: PGP signature