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General Fan Performance Guide

Posted by Hemos on from the getting-it-working dept.

Lars Olsen writes: "As a complementary article to his comprehensive General Heat Transfer Guide , Dave Smith has written another great article for Amdmb.com called General Fan Performance Guide. This is an indepth guide to the performance of the fans we have in our PC's. Here's a quote: 'The specific purpose of this guide is to take the science associated with fans and translate it into a meaningful document that will allow the reader to understand how fans work and how they apply to computers. It provides a brief summary of DC power and drives. It finishes with an introduction to the concepts of sound generation and measurement.'"

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  1. Heat Transfer Tip by jeeryg_flashaccess · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Change your thermal paste every now and then! Why do i say this? A K6 200 at work was blowing hot air...and freezing...The paste was hard as rock. I scraped it off and put new paste on. It blows cool air now, and runs better. BAM!

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    Life is like pants... fit in or you don't fit in.
  2. The most techno-geek of all fan articles is ... by jkorty · · Score: 3, Interesting
    The best fan article I've ever seen I ran across entirely by accident a year or so ago:

    COOLING FAN NOISE - SLEEVE BEARING VS. BALL BEARING.

  3. Quiet cases? by MisterPo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just a thought about quiet PCs. If the weight of a box is not too much of a problem, then lining the case with a car audio sound deadening may be an option.

    For example example Dynamat (http://www.dynamat.com/), has a range of sheets that are normally used to line car panels. These not only adsorb sound but heat also. So why not??

    That way you can have as many fans as you want in a system and barely hear them :)

    Regards,
    Po