[CS-FSLUG] Silent computer cooling

[Yama Ploskonka]

I am about to install a water radiator contraption any day, for similar 
reasons.
It would have a copper plate touching the CPU, and a container above 
with some liquid, likely glycol antifreeze, and a tree of fins to 
dissipate that.  tall 3-4 inches, and if I am clever enough some sort of 
internal design to promote motor less circulation. The coolest would be 
to have some sort of heat pump powered by muscle wire, I have a few 
inches somewhere.

In my toy box I have one of those piezo tiles that cool on one end while 
heating the other - they're supposed to be the high-tech solution, to 
achieve fan-less cooling, though in absolute numbers they end up 
producing a lot more heat than was there before, and if they ever break 
down it is a fried processor for sure.

I enjoy dreaming I will ever have time for this, yet I have to do 
something - my computer is way too loud, and while the fan dos quiet 
down now, it doesn't seem to make a pattern that makes sense

Yama

Nathan T. wrote:
> Hey everyone
> 
> I'm concerned about the volume of noise coming out of my computer,
> even while it sits idle the fan is loud enough to be heard throughout
> the house. I don't know whether the power supply fan makes a lot of
> noise, but I do know the CPU fan sounds like a vacuum cleaner or maybe
> a hawker, I can hear the thing from over half way across the house in
> the basement, or the other side of the house on the main floor. At
> first it was a nuisance, now I'm a little more concerned about the
> long term impact on my hearing since research indicates that long term
> exposure to perpetual noises, even quiet ones, can greatly increase
> chances of deafness.
> 
> Whether there's a permanent health risk here or not, I need to quiet
> this thing down. It's getting to the point where I'll favour my laptop
> which doesn't have most of my files on it, neither is it as powerful,
> over my desktop simply because of the noise factor. I'm even shutting
> the thing off when I know it won't be long before I'll need it again.
> I did see an absolutely huge heat sink at one of the local computer
> stores that seated two abnormally large looking fans, and I asked
> about fans but saw that most of the high end ones really looked like
> they were made out of cheap translucent plastic even though they were
> supposed to be good quiet ones.
> 
> I don't want to go out and spend too much money, I really don't want
> to invest anything into a solution that won't work, and water cooling
> kits are out of my price range. What can I do for roughly CAD $50 that
> will quiet down my computer for sure? The only case fan I have right
> now is on the power supply, the CPU fan is the one that came with the
> Pentium 4 space heater in there.
> 
> I also need to know what to keep in mind when I go looking for fans, I
> don't know much about the hardware inside the computer beyond how to
> install drives, sister cards and their related cables. I became very
> confused when the folks at the stores asked me what sized fan I needed
> for my case and CPU, the same confusing question came up when I asked
> about heat sinks. I thought everything was 8 inches, or 80
> millimetres, or something like that. Can someone advise me on this?
> 
> If someone can tell me a way to quiet the thing down that they're sure
> will work then I might be able to get some financial help from my
> parents on this one.
> 
> I also don't know whether fans should be oriented to blow or suck
> depending on where they're placed, can someone inform me a little?
> 
> One thing to keep in mind, there is some selection at the stores here,
> but unfortunately not as much as I'd like.
> 
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