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Originally posted by BladeRunner
Well we are never going to agree, maybe you have damaged your hearing being in the construction business  , but I CAN hear the fan's I have and they are not crap ones either. My room is silent, I can bearly hear my monitors cathode ray tube buzzing if I turn my head sideways and really strain. The only item that makes a "noise" in the PC is the HDD which is rated at 2.0 bels (accordibg to the manufacture). This I don't notice unless I get near to the PC, but the fans I do. As said it's the type of noise not just it's db rating.
Have you ever had a TV that has a whistiling component? that probably wouldn't register on a DB meter but can be very obvious and annoying.
I live in the contry in the UK and wild life, traffic noise etc is not a issue, I do have a silent eviroment 90% of the time except for the PC which is why I wanted to remove the fan noise.
Your heat problem must be the particular motherboard design, because both Abit KT7a & MSI K7N 420 have been run fanless for a few months each without issue, not that I'm volt modding mine.
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Actually we are required to get a hearing test every year for work and my hearing is almost perfect still. i am only 25!!!. I guess I just don't care about the noise as it dosn't bother me enough to spend all that time and energy to make all three comps silent as they are not that loud in the first place.
As for the Abit KT7A I have one running 24/7 crunchin SETI as it is one of my 3 comps and it dosn't really need it being the voltage dosn't go over 1.85. The 8K7A's stock voltage can be adjusted to 2.25 without mod. I always run mine at 2.05 and it heats those heat sinks up, as that is why they are there in the first place because of the extra voltage the board is capable of. The 8K7A board also smokes my KT7A in performance so I really don't care much about modding the KT7A as it is a waste of time to mod a slower board to still not get the performance of the stock 8K7A. If I ran the 8K7A stock at 1.65-1.85 then it isn't a problem, but it is just not right to do that.
The XP1600+ wants that extra voltage and speed.