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[Case Gallery] Silent Phenom II

shadapar

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Specs:
phenom ii 940, MSI k9as platinum, 4gigs DDR2 1066, ati 4850 1gig GGR3, MSI theator pro, 802.11g MIMO wi-fi, 1.5 TB WD black edition drives w\32 meg cache

Mods:
got rid of that annoying whine by removing the 92mm zalmon fan on the zalmon 9700, fitted it with fan guards and two aerocool 120mm turbine fans. Removed stock video cooler and replaced with HR-03GT cooler, added aerocool centaurus, replaced power supply fan with hiper 120mm, and replaced front case fan with aerocool 120mm, reverse mounted powersupply.

This has been a work in progress with some to do, and perhaps it doesn't look like much compared to some of the awesome mods on here, but the CPU is consistantly 2 degrees cooler than the motherboard, it rarely breaks 41C even under extended loads, the 4850 runs between 52-62C even at load, and the entire system under full load is NEVER louder than 20Db... in other words the air pump to my aquarium is louder than this rig under full load. I went through a lot of fans, heatsinks, and setups to get here, but its probably the quietest air cooled setup running with this kind of equipment I've ever seen, I'm sure there's others out there but not many. The installation of the thermalright HR-03gt heatsink in this configuration also allows me to use all of the PCI and PCIe slots that would normally be blocked by the cooler, provided the cards are the half height HTPC style of course. This let me install both Wi-Fi and an MSI theator pro card easily.

*added internal view-need to clean this guy I see now, the camera caught dust in the fans (oh the horror!)
 
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shadapar

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oh yeah...

...it also overclocks to 3.8GHz pretty easy but I've put it back to stock settings...didn't like the heat.
 

rick22

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System Name bubba
Processor e something
Motherboard old but good mobo
Cooling my farts
Memory can't find it
Video Card(s) EVGA 250 took a shit..back to my 4850..fk off ati fanboys
Storage i think i have one
Display(s) not sure but it sucks
Case lol my mouth
Audio Device(s) me
Power Supply ass farts
Software that sucks to
Benchmark Scores i'm so fat i sat on the bench and smashed assssit
Forsom reason i can't vote on it....if i could i'd give you a 5/10
 
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Processor Intel i7 10700k
Motherboard Asus TUF Gaming H570-PRO
Cooling Corsair H100i
Memory Corsair Vengence 16gb 3600 mhz
Video Card(s) Gigabyte RTX 3060ti 8gb
Storage 1Tb Samsung 970 EVO NvMe m.2
Display(s) 27" LG Ultragear 144hz
Case Fractal Design- Meshify 2
Audio Device(s) Onborad dts
Power Supply Corsair RX 650 W
Mouse Roccat Kiro
Keyboard Razer Tarantula
Software Windows 10 Home x64
It looks good....You should take off the side panel so we can see a clear shot of your setup.
 
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Pahtet

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I voted 9/10 because:

Good


User withdrew this vote on: Apr 7 2009 12:50
 
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