Occasional Strange noise coming from PC.

[Shibathedog]

Oh shit I didn't even think of this, check out how they attached the fan to the NB in a pic in this thread!

 

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=32778

 

Sorry for resurrecting this, but I saw that and I instantly thought of this thread. You could probably do something very similar.

[Hera]

This has probably been answered already but it's late and I'm a lazy ass who doesn't want to read. Ever since I've pulled this computer out of it's box two years ago, I noticed that I have the loudest fan possible on a computer. It doesn't really hurt anything but it's ridiculous how loud it is. I have to turn my speakers almost all the way up to hear whatever I'm doing and I just want to know if there's any easy fix or if I should just leave it alone. It's a crappy Wal-Mart Emachines but it was free. My sister-in-law bought it for us...should I risk doing anything?

[The-Ice-Man]

Oh shit I didn't even think of this, check out how they attached the fan to the NB in a pic in this thread!

 

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=32778

 

Sorry for resurrecting this, but I saw that and I instantly thought of this thread. You could probably do something very similar.

What a great idea. Not sure how well it would hold with the diagonal shape of my heasink but something to think about for the future. Hera if your fans are really bothering you and you have the money to replace them then I'd say it's worth doing. QuietPC sells PC stuff specifically designed to be quiet. If you're lucky your fans will all be fixed standardly with screws so you can just find fans of the same size and swap them out. The fan section there has tables telling you how many decibels they are and how fast they spin which is helpful. While you want as quiet a fan as possible it's usually important not to replace a fast spinning fan with a slower one. If it’s your actual CPU cooler that’s the noisemaker then you’ve got tonnes of options, even up to a completely fanless cooler, depending on how much space you have.