Fan noise madness!!

[Rob]

Well, there IS one way you can do it WITHOUT fans.. If you have a large
enough surface area for the heatsinks, you can get ANYTHING to run without
fans.. Sure, heatsinks add to the cost, but lets say you were able to get
ahold of a guy who knew a little about machining, got him to machine a HUGE
piece of aluminum and make the appropriate cuts/fins  with a section that
mated not only to the processor, but also had quite a bit of surface which,
when you closed the case on your computer, bolted w/ heatsink compound and
used the entire case of the PC as part of the heatsink?

You could do the same with the power supply: take all the parts that have
little teeny heatsinks and bolt as big a piece of finned aluminum as
possible to all the parts that need heatsinking, and then bolt those too, to
the outside of the powersupply case, which will in turn put its heat into
the computer case..

Then, get maybe two of the Silencer fans (which, btw, I just cannot hear..
Try one at a puter store and prepare to be amazed) and it will be just like
you never had any fans at all.

I have seen Mitsubishi do exactly this with their plasma screens.. No more
fans.. they used every available piece of metal to conduct heat away from
the components.

Problem is: Plastic fans are much cheaper than big hunks of aluminum. The
makers of PCs just dont give a care if the thing sounds like a blast furnace
and acts like one too.
BTW, the iMacs have peltier juction heatsinks i *think*, which have no
moving parts, BUT, these suckers are current hogs (about 1amp or so)
Look at Marlin P. Jones on the internet and have them send you a catalog..
Or, for alternative cooling with no moving parts, you could go with a hi
frequency harmonic funnel which acts as a fan/heat exchanger.

RUN motherboard monitor to watch your temp when attempting these fixes, just
to make sure you can do a before/after for the puter..

Im sure getting a machinist to make you up one of these (esp if he is a
friend) wouldnt cost too much.


Rob



----- Original Message -----
From: James Green <james at occam-dm.com>
To: <music-bar at teklab.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 11:15 AM
Subject: RE: Fan noise madness!!


> DOH!
>
> I'm sorry Johan its not the latest issue its January 2000.  They all seem
to
> blur these days.
>
> Regards,
>
> James.
>
> >Thanks a lot mate!
> >I'll go and grab that issue right away...
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Johan
>