Intel Nocona fan mod

[EZ-Spidey]

I have a couple of stock Intel Nocona heatsink fans
cooling my oceed LV chips.

Yeah, you heard it before, the noise is unbearable.

Is it safe to use a RPM adjuster or 5v volt mod on
those coolers?

[dicecca112]

yeah its fine people have done it as long as they are not powered by the mobo

[EZ-Spidey]

Cool!

My chips are oceed 2.4GHz @ 3.6GHz on a NCCH-DL.

I found some Zalman 5v mod adapter for cheap. So basicaly if I were
to use those, I'd ought to power the fans straight from the PSU right?

[perfectturmoil]

Cool!

My chips are oceed 2.4GHz @ 3.6GHz on a NCCH-DL.

I found some Zalman 5v mod adapter for cheap. So basicaly if I were
to use those, I'd ought to power the fans straight from the PSU right?

Although its not what you asked, you can also put on some quiet 80mm fans with some 60-80mm adapters from compusa. You will probably get higher flow for less noise with quiet 80's instead of rheostat'd screaming 60's :-]

Of course, I'll bet what you have will do fine anyways.

[EZ-Spidey]

That's where my problem was.

I can't do that fan adapter mod on my heatsinks. The ones I have
are not the infamous Intel Wind Tunnels.

The heatsinks are all copper made and the fans measure 70mm and
not 60mm. On top of that, the fans are not even skrewed on. They
appear to be snapped on the heatsinks.

Come to think about it, I do believe I can remove those 70mm fans
and 'force skrew' some good 80mm ones on those sinks.

[perfectturmoil]

That's where my problem was.

I can't do that fan adapter mod on my heatsinks. The ones I have
are not the infamous Intel Wind Tunnels.

The heatsinks are all copper made and the fans measure 70mm and
not 60mm. On top of that, the fans are not even skrewed on. They
appear to be snapped on the heatsinks.

Come to think about it, I do believe I can remove those 70mm fans
and 'force skrew' some good 80mm ones on those sinks.

Oh.. my bad. You know, I just kinda figured :-]

[LV38_Eagle]

When I built my nocona server I had the Intel passive heatsinks, but as I didn't go for the Intel server case I had to bodge the cooling, I have fixed the 2 92mm Sunon fans with foam tape.

Must get around to sorting it properly one day, but its been fine like this for 4 months or so.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v340/LV38_Eagle/forum%20stuff/DSC00377.jpg

[DrSpanky]

*off topic*
is it just me or is that one damn long case?

[LV38_Eagle]

Its a damn long case, 8 hotswap drive bays with fans at both ends though, so needs to be quite long.

[Ad Rock]

Its a damn long case, 8 hotswap drive bays with fans at both ends though, so needs to be quite long.

What is the name and make of that case? It looks really interesting.

[LV38_Eagle]

Its a Chenboro SR107, found HERE (http://www.chenbro.com.tw/product/product_preview.php?pid=102).