Silent HSF Mod

peach1971 · Dec 11, 2007

Scythe Samurai

Original fan > 92mm 2100rpm @12V
Replaced with > 2x Enermax Warp 80mm 1600rpm @12V

Result: 2 °C cooler & incredibly silent!

3991vhtes · Dec 11, 2007

It's cool.

Wish i had some spare time to do the same thing.

a111087 · Dec 11, 2007

i have 2 of those fans in my case

by the way, what is it that supports the fan on your video card?

snuif09 · Dec 12, 2007

awsome

but takes a lot of room i think

Processor	AMD Phenom II X2 550 @3600MHz (VCore -0.05V)
Motherboard	Gigabyte MA-780G-DS3H (AMD SB700), BIOS: 04/14/09
Cooling	Scythe Samurai cooled by 2x Enermax Warp 80mm ~700 RPM
Memory	2x 1GB GeIL Ultra DDR2-800 @1066 CL4-5-5-15 2T
Video Card(s)	MSI R4830 OC (HD4830)
Storage	Samsung 400 GB S-ATA, WD 400GB S-ATA
Display(s)	Samsung 2433BW 1920 x 1200 Pixel (16:10)
Case	timeless office tower ;)
Audio Device(s)	Asus Xonar D1
Power Supply	be quiet! Straight Power BQT E7-400W
Software	Windows XP Pro 32bit

Processor	AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Venice 2.4GHz
Motherboard	ASUS A8V-VM SE
Cooling	Stock
Memory	1GB DDR400
Video Card(s)	DiamondViper Radeon X1650PRO 512MB PCI-e
Storage	Seagate 250GB SATA
Display(s)	Acer AL2002W 20" LCD Widescreen
Case	cheap
Audio Device(s)	Creative SoundBlaster
Power Supply	500 watt
Software	Vista Ultimate
Benchmark Scores	4.1 Vista index