I'm not sure whether replacing the fan will help. You say that the fan is very quiet when first switched on, but it gets louder and the CPU temp. goes up.
In your computerhelp post, gholam suggests the Athlon 64 needs OS support to reduce its voltage and clock rate. On my system the CPU does this automatically (or Linux does it with no configuration?) and this makes a difference - when the machine's been at 100% CPU for a while it's actually quite loud.
I think you need to make the CPU do power-saving when it's not busy; otherwise you'll need to get a very quiet, but also very powerful fan to extract heat you're generating needlessly. My guess is it's not doing this for whatever reason. Investigate ACPI and/or Cool'n'Quiet under Linux?
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Date: 2005-02-01 01:41 pm (UTC)I'm not sure whether replacing the fan will help. You say that the fan is very quiet when first switched on, but it gets louder and the CPU temp. goes up.
In your computerhelp post, gholam suggests the Athlon 64 needs OS support to reduce its voltage and clock rate. On my system the CPU does this automatically (or Linux does it with no configuration?) and this makes a difference - when the machine's been at 100% CPU for a while it's actually quite loud.
I think you need to make the CPU do power-saving when it's not busy; otherwise you'll need to get a very quiet, but also very powerful fan to extract heat you're generating needlessly. My guess is it's not doing this for whatever reason. Investigate ACPI and/or Cool'n'Quiet under Linux?