I have replaced fans in power supplies before but it’s not something I’m comfortable doing. There are voltages inside that will shake your hand, even if you unplug the unit beforehand. (Voice of experience.) You might pop it open and see how much work it’s going to be. If the fan plugs in (rather than being hard-wired) and the plug is reasonably accessible, you might give it a go, but use a great deal of caution. I’d sleep better if you just bought a $35 Enermax from Newegg.com though. Or, bring the unit into the store and ask him if that was what he meant by quiet. Maybe the fan is defective and they’ll replace the unit for free. Defective fans happen sometimes.

Cooling via convection cooling is possible and some people do it, and I’ve done it when testing lots of new components, but it’s not how the components were designed to operate long-term. Better to just get a power supply that lets you adjust the speed on your fans, such as an Enermax. I think they cost around $43 at Newegg.com.

Ahh, I am momentarily proud to have exceeded a very low standard! Would it be ethical to request that posters comments be …uhhh… smart and interesting?

I do have an actual question.

The kid in the store said that this power supply was really quiet. Alas, it’s noise disturbs me even when I’m upstars taking a shower. Would it be foolish to try and replace only the fan? This, just to save $40 replacing the whole power supply? I sure don’t want to spend $150 on a tricked-out quiet case.

And for that matter, what about having no fan but have the whole motherboard open to a large space like a (AV) closet?

Here’s an old demo of a song called troll. (it’s a big 2,4MB mp3 so be carefull) I think it really captures a valid -if slightly abusive- sentiment.

http://www.madmadscience.com/troll_demo__by_birdbrain.mp3

Usually in the form of a A73 5.1 Channel Bracket.

And from what I can tell from his most recent comment, Mike’s computer is working pretty well–within the capabilities of his motherboard’s onboard sound hardware. Some boards are better in that department than others.

I don’t mind you (or anyone else for that matter) reading and even commenting, but make sure you have something intelligent to say. If your messages of the past two days are indicative of the things you have to say, I know I speak for more than just myself when I say good riddance.

i’m not an advocate of extremely fast pcs just ones that work and are conforming for modern age computing!

Peace…

I totally agree. There are so many more important things than fast computers or flashy technologies.

Once I installed the drivers and began configuring the card it became clear that the three jacks on the back were not permamnently dedicated AUX, MIC, and OUT. Rather they can be re-configured in software to be Stereo Front, Stero Rear, and Cnter/Subwoofer.
Of course, when they’re configured that way there are no inputs. But the board contains pins to connect front-panel audio connections (which my cheap case with the LOUD power supply does not support).

So I can indeed decode a fairly sucking version of 6 descrete dolby digital audio streams.

Some day I’ll get a nice external re-sampling 96dB S/N isolted amplifier like the Exigy. After I have a house a car a girlfriend, lot’s of food and three years to live.

And what do you use your “somewhere in the ghz range” system for? I actually own a 3.06 GHz Intel Pentium 4 based system, but I haven’t played a single game on it. I use it to compile things for my slower machines. It’s really hard compiling the latest glibc on a 33 MHz i486.

Go away, troll.

I’ve noticed that alot of you have slow shtuff yet have so much damn money.. I have 233 bucks in my account but you better believe that i have a system thats somewhere in the ghz range.