quiet PC

[Madison Kelly]

Increased contact pressure between the CPU die and the heat sink, 
thermal conductive tape or paste and larger, more effective heat sinks. 
Couple to this a 60mm or 80mm thermally variale fan and you have the 
average solution today.

Madison

Ladislav Svatos wrote:
> On December 9, 2003 09:00 am, Madison Kelly wrote:
> 
>>What CPU and is the Heat Sink and FAN supplied by the manufacturere (AMD
>>or Intel)?
>>
>>Madison
>>
>>
> 
> I have an AMD processor and the noise is not that bad. The motherboard is an 
> old Asus A7V. The motherboard supports fan speed control, but it  never 
> actually worked. Asus probably got it working in later versions of the MB.
> I would like to know what are the thermal solutions for new CPUs having to 
> dissipate 100W of heat. 

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