Several cards in one PC

Ganool · Post by **Ganool** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 1:53 am

Yup... I'm getting an extra Pulsar I-card in addition to my Pulsar II-card. AND if I'm really lucky I'm getting a dead-cheap Luna II as well.

This means: new adventures in the installation-jungle.

Any tips to avoid the worst headaches?

How important is cooling? Is it a good idea to add a chassi-fan to my system? I'd rather not as I want to keep the noise level down.

Cheers,

Carl.

Post by **garyb** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 2:52 am

cooling is the most likely problem.you can try it w/o a fan....if you have a large well-ventilated case,you might be o.k..

borg · Post by **borg** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 5:52 am

i have a pulsar II and two pulsar I cards in my G3, and so far no problems... i think

you'll love the power!

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at0m · Post by **at0m** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 7:54 am

I expect no heat problems. I have 21 DSP and 2 P3's.

Silent 60mm fan on each CPU.
Replaced the standard PSU fan with a silent (80mm) one. It's assisted by a 2nd 80mm fan, in a hole on the casing's air inlet -front bottom. PSU fan extracts, case fan sucks air into the case.

As I used silent fans and HD, it's a very quiet machine. Often when I come home I have to look at the numlock to see if it's running or not.

Ganool · Post by **Ganool** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 12:15 pm

On 2002-09-26 08:54, at0mic wrote:
I expect no heat problems. I have 21 DSP and 2 P3's.

Wow!

Silent 60mm fan on each CPU.
Replaced the standard PSU fan with a silent (80mm) one. It's assisted by a 2nd 80mm fan, in a hole on the casing's air inlet -front bottom. PSU fan extracts, case fan sucks air into the case.

As I used silent fans and HD, it's a very quiet machine. Often when I come home I have to look at the numlock to see if it's running or not.

Thanks for you detailed description. Very interesting indeed. The thing is that I don't want to put more fans in my machine. Got a P4 with a Zalman fan running at lowest speed. I also got a Zalman PSU - it's very quiet when running at 1000 rpm, but after 10 minutes the speed goes up to 2000 rpm and it's a bit noisy.

Perhaps a - EXTREMELY - quiet chassi fan would solve my PSU _and_ cooling of CW cards?

Carl.

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 12:27 pm

You won't need ONE extremely silent fan. You will then only hear the loudest one

I ordered 60mm (cpu) and 80mm http://www.pabst.de silent fans, they're 20-25€ each. I replaced all fans in one go -of course if you have quiet fans don't replace those.

For noise/vibration reduction, I put some insulation tape on the edges of touching surfaces of the pc box. I covered big surfaces with 5mm heavy foam.

A cheap way of silencing your current PSU exhaust is to deviate the outgoing air w a cupboard box/tube.

If you have a high tower chassis and only one or two disk drives, you might even not need extra cooling. Disk drives are a great source of heat too.

Post by **garyb** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 12:34 pm

THIS makes it silent! http://www.acoustilock.com/

cook · Post by **cook** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 1:36 pm

shure

Ganool · Post by **Ganool** » Fri Sep 27, 2002 12:22 pm

A cheap way of silencing your current PSU exhaust is to deviate the outgoing air w a cupboard box/tube.

Sorry it I'm not getting your point. What do you mean? Like putting something at the back of the computer? Such as a "silencer" ?

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Fri Sep 27, 2002 2:00 pm

Yes. It's not huge, but it helps and is free.
On one of my previous machines, there was a cupboard box (w foam inside glued to the walls) on the exhaust. One side had been removed to go over the exhaust, the bottom of the box removed as new exhaust. It reduces airflow a little, so it reduces cooling. Pretty amateuristic, but helps.
Most cost efficient still are silent fans. Big deep fans with low RPM.