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hi,
for those using a zalman fanmate or similar, what speed are you running the fan?? Minimum? Half way? Do you adjust it wether you are playing movies or just let it fixed?
What temperature are you getting from the nvidia control panel?
BTW, I did the mod to reduce the 30mm noise to, and now it's the 50mm fan that's making noise.. funny xD.
thanks!
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Hi all,
I have the ASRock Ion 330HT which is 3 months old now.
I connected a Fanmate 2 to the smallest fan and that went okay.
I also ordered a Fractal Design 50mm Silent Fan to replace the big fan in the back, but when I hooked it up it didnt work(didnt start) when I turned on the computer. When I connected the old one it started just fine.
Do you think my fan was defect? Should I order a new one or could there be another problem? The old fan is making a really ugly noise and I cant stand it, so either I have to try and get a new fan or get a new mediacenter (ATV or Acer Revo)
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madcow
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2011-01-19, 10:25
(This post was last modified: 2011-01-19, 10:28 by madcow.)
I replaced the original 50mm with a fractal design 50mm fan. I replaced the 30mm fan with a Titan 30mm fan and mounted both of them with rubber. Finally I reapplied the heatsinks using AC MX4 cooling paste.
btw, I also didn't know what direction to point my fans. Currently I set them to blow air in the same direction, backwards. i.e. blowing out of the case.
My ION330HT-BD did get a little more quiet but not a lot.
I think it's the HD. Did anybody replace it with a SSD? Did that make much of a difference?
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I have an SSD, it does not make a difference, for me it is really that fans contact with the case - but it's all fan noise really!
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anyone whos is interested in working drivers to the chipset monitoring super i/o chip for asrocks and ions generally should look at my signature, contains drivers and instructions for linux.
Very accurate...
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roakes
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Hey all,
I picked up a replacement 30mm fan and some rubber screws. How easy is it to remove the 30mm fan? Does it involve removing the motherboard and any of the heatsinks?
I also picked up a zalman fanmate 2 to adjust the speed, do you think this will do the trick just on it's own or best to replace the fan too?
Thanks
Russ
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In short yes. In order to remove the small fan, you need to remove the motherboard trom the case and then the heatsink with the fan on.
It is quite easy actually. Just pinch the two pins on the bottom of the board and it's off.
Thinking of removing the top off the case and replace it with a large 80 mm on slow speed. And remove the two small fans. It still makes to much noise in my opinion.