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90mm
Dual Celeron CPU Fan (page 1)
When I first
assembled my Abit BP6 motherboard, I had two small 60mm CPU
fans, one per CPU heatsink. Since I overclocked the 366 MHz
Celeron processors to 505MHz (92 MHz FSB), I replaced the
generic fans with larger, more powerful, 60mm Panaflo fans.
Over time, the added noise of the Panaflos started to annoy
me. They weren't extremely loud - there are plenty of much
louder fans out there; I just didn't like the noise. To make
matters worse, I had placed a small 486 fan on the 440BX heatsink,
thus adding to the noise.
My solution
was to replace all three fans with a single large 90mm Panaflo
fan. My choice of fan was simple enough - I have a box of
recycled parts and this particular fan was sitting there begging
to be used. I wired it up to 12VDC and found it to be surprisingly
quiet. Most important of all, it moved a massive amount of
air.
My first attempt at mounting this fan was to simply screw
it to the existing heatsinks with one screw in each of the
two heatsinks. The remaining two screwsholes in the fan were
unused. The picture below shows this version (click on image
for larger version) :
14-December-2002
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