[zambaretzu]

I'm building an HTPC to drive a 50" plasma, and I've basically settled on:

- Celeron 1.7 Ghz

- Zalman 6500 cooler, with 92mm fan

- Aopen motherboard with passive chipset cooling

- Sapphire Radeon 9000, also passive cooling

- Zalman 300W PSU.


Considering the Celeron is supposed to run very cool, and the PSU already provides some air flow, would you say that I still need case fans? Obviously, I want as little noise as possible, but I still want a stable PC. And I wanted your opinion, since I have no way of knowing the temperature of the chipset and the video card.

 

[tschimi]

Hi,


no I do not think so. If you go for a P4 instead you could even consider heatpipe cooling. I have been designing my own case and I think that you can even cool a 2.4 P4 with heat-pipe and intelligent airflow only ))

Regarding the power supply you should look at some special offers. Nowadays there are even power supplys available with no fans at all.


So long, Torsten

 

[Qyv10]

zambaretzu,

You should have no problems with what you porpose.

I run a P4 2.4 with Zalman 6500 AlCu with tha 92 mm fan set at it's lowest setting (I can barely hear it if right next to it) also a zalman zm 50 on my radeon 9000pro.

The loudest thing in the HTPC is the powersupply which is temp controlled and pretty quiet.

My CPU temp runs at 44C/109F with 100% CPU use.

The MB temp is at 30C.

Also I went to a hobby shop and got a small (4.5"x1.5"x6") plastic box and put the harddrive in it wrapped in some foam and can't hear it at all.


The loudest thing in my whole system is the da*m Tivo harddrives.

Been thinking about trying to find a way to remount it into a different case like a larger VCR or something so I can put the HD's into a box and quiet them down.


Hope this helps out