Wayne Stallwood wrote:
You must of had a similar problem with your case Martijn (assuming you have all the fans connected) I scoped it at the last kit meet and it is the same (very expensive but lovely) Cooler Master case my previous machine was housed in. From memory that had 4 case fans (plus PSU, CPU etc)
The machine I took was a A7VX with an XP 1700+, in a CoolerMaster ATCS-200. It has 4 fans (2 front, one top, one rear), which I replaced with low-noise ones (nexus/papst). I usually have them all on, no thermal control. It has a NX3500, and a SP1604N. It doesn't make too much noise, but is not as quiet as I'd like it to be.
The Athlon64 is in a box that has had similar treatment. That one is a bit noisier, primarily due to some disk vibration, and its temperatures suffer a bit in the height of summer, when I've been known to point my huge office pedestal fan at it (that was in the P4 days). My plan is to scratch-build a case and fix its various issues, but that's a project that hasn't started yet. I'll let you know if that ever becomes a reality.
-- Martijn