I have a P4 2.6GHz, 800MHz FSB on this board. It is a retail cpu (with
heat sink and fan). I am not doing any over clocking.
I have activated the fan rpm control in the bios and have set the rpm ratio
to minimum (11/16 is it?).
The CPU temperature under no-load conditions, according to PC probe
is only 32C, when the cpu fan rpm is reported to be 2045.
I don't mind if the rpm goes up when I am playing games.
But when I am not doing anything and the CPU is not hot at all (33C),
I'd rather have a quieter fan.

Is there a way to further reduce the RPM under no-load conditions?
Or do I have to get a different cooler?

Thanks,
Navid

I replaced my standard with a Zalman to improve the noise and it was well
worth it.
"Navid" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:FyHpb.80097$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I have a P4 2.6GHz, 800MHz FSB on this board. It is a retail cpu (with
> heat sink and fan). I am not doing any over clocking.
> I have activated the fan rpm control in the bios and have set the rpm
ratio
> to minimum (11/16 is it?).
> The CPU temperature under no-load conditions, according to PC probe
> is only 32C, when the cpu fan rpm is reported to be 2045.
> I don't mind if the rpm goes up when I am playing games.
> But when I am not doing anything and the CPU is not hot at all (33C),
> I'd rather have a quieter fan.
>
> Is there a way to further reduce the RPM under no-load conditions?
> Or do I have to get a different cooler?
>
> Thanks,
> Navid
>
>

"sheer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I replaced my standard with a Zalman to improve the noise and it was well
> worth it.
> "Navid" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:FyHpb.80097$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I have a P4 2.6GHz, 800MHz FSB on this board. It is a retail cpu (with
> > heat sink and fan). I am not doing any over clocking.
> > I have activated the fan rpm control in the bios and have set the rpm
> ratio
> > to minimum (11/16 is it?).
> > The CPU temperature under no-load conditions, according to PC probe
> > is only 32C, when the cpu fan rpm is reported to be 2045.
> > I don't mind if the rpm goes up when I am playing games.
> > But when I am not doing anything and the CPU is not hot at all (33C),
> > I'd rather have a quieter fan.
> >
> > Is there a way to further reduce the RPM under no-load conditions?
> > Or do I have to get a different cooler?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Navid
> >
You are saying that the noise improved (decreased). That is good.
Did you by any chance record before and after cpu temperatures?

On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 at 07:01 GMT, sheer <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I replaced my standard with a Zalman to improve the noise and it was well
> worth it.

Seconded. I've not been able to monitor the temp under heavy load
(running FreeBSD), but the mboard was quite happy during a multi-hour
compile session. Answer: it's cool enough.