Re: seeking advice for a silent machine

From: Kent Wormsdorf (kwormsdorf_at_NOSPAMhotmail.dk)
Date: 09/07/05 

Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 23:06:06 +0200

Michael Laajanen skrev:

>
> But that is not going to solve the noise much, the big noise is comming
> from the FAN that cools the CPU and PCU boards, if you have no board
> then I think you can lower the speed abit without overheating the CPU.
>
> /michael
Hi Michael

I have already changed the CPU and PCU board Fan to a "low noise" model,
but it didn't help that much. :-(

And the guy in Denmark said it helped to change the PSU.

Greetings

Kent Wormsdorf 

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