Glacialtech Igloo SilentBreeze:

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Not sure where to get one these days, especially if you're not in Europe. Hey wow you're in Brazil. I'm not selling you mine.. 😉

Huh, you actually live pretty close to me. I live in Pará de Minas.

But thankfully, there are a few on eBay. How silent are they, anyway?

The SilentBreeze 462 was the quietest cooler out of 65 (!) tested here:
http://ixbtlabs.com/articles2/cooling-systems … b2k3-part4.html

27 DB! That's surprisingly low.

Unfortunately, I mixed up and thought a GlacialTech Igloo 2300 (rated at 49DB) was the Silent Breeze. Haven't found the actual Silent Breeze for sale anywhere.

Oh, well. Part hunting here I go.

If it is the fan bearings you can fix that with a little bit of heavy weight motor oil and a q-tip.

One can also take any 12Volt DC fan that gives plenty cooling at stock speed, and then connect it to a "fan speed controller" to run it at about 70% speed. The controller just reduces the voltage. In my experience most fans are quiet at 70% speed.

I'm not sure if your board can rev down the RPM of your CPU fan, but if it does, then finding any Socket A cooler will be more silent then the stock Intel s370 coolers. Those Intel coolers were noisy as hell!
A Coppermine 1000 will produce somewhat around 30W in heat while Socket A coolers are designed to deal with a power dissipation of around 70W (more then twice the amount a Coppermine will ever produce).

Personally I found even the stock AMD copper HSF's to be a real improvement over those Intel stock HSF's.

There are better HSF's then the AMD stock ones, but I got a bunch for €2 each and bought a small lot of them.

Personally I like the Copper Silent 3 a lot.

Edit:And I agree with Gerwin, I love using those 7v adapters 😀

nforce4max wrote:

If it is the fan bearings you can fix that with a little bit of heavy weight motor oil and a q-tip.

That's right, a drop of oil pushed through a medical injector (or whatever you call those things http://www.dickinsonpd.com/images/syringe.jpg) can change a lot.

After all, if your cooler has a molex plug, you can use 5V line (RED) instead of 12V line (YELLOW) if 5V is enough for you.

RacoonRider wrote:

nforce4max wrote:

If it is the fan bearings you can fix that with a little bit of heavy weight motor oil and a q-tip.

That's right, a drop of oil pushed through a medical injector (or whatever you call those things http://www.dickinsonpd.com/images/syringe.jpg) can change a lot.

After all, if your cooler has a molex plug, you can use 5V line (RED) instead of 12V line (YELLOW) if 5V is enough for you.

Also, it is possible to buy contact cleaner spray that has oil in it. In my experience it is great on noisy fan bearing. I even completely resurrected seized fans with it. The oil in it is quite persistent and its also great on Pots.

Here is the brand i Use because its what they sell around here.
http://www.mgchemicals.com/products/cleaners/ … l-cleaner-401b/