Fractal Design 50mm Silent Series Cooling Fan (19DB)Ģ) Another option that crossed my mid was increasing the inlet, removing the 30mm fan and replace the 50mm fan with an ultra silent version that can move more air.Although it willīe hard to find a good 30mm fan replacement with a lower dba. Other options to consider:1) Replacing the fans with some others might help. Now the sound level is acceptable to me although it's still not 100% quiet. Now the annoying high pitch noise is gone. I removed the screws, added some Rubber Dualhead fan mount rivets (that I got from an old P4 CPU fan), cut one side of the rivets and attached the fan using a rubber band. This is how the fan was fixed to the CPU heat sink :
The fan itself is pretty quiet but because it is fixed to the heat sink with metal screws, it causes the fan to transfer vibrations from the fan to the heat sink creating more noise than necessary.īelow are some images of the case fan (50x50mm) The small (CPU) fan is (in my case) making the most noise. (some have reported a Power Logic PLA03010S12M 24dbA)Ĭase: 50x50x20mm 12V YS-Tech case fan FD125020ML 0.10A brushless fan. On the other hand if you're running a CPU hungry OS like M$ Windows, the CPU gets stressed much more which will result in higher temperatures, resulting in higher fan speeds that will produce much more noise.ĬPU: 30x30x10mm 12V YS-Tech fan FD123010LS 0.07A brushless fan.
So the average load of the CPU is close to 0. Al the video encoding and decoding is done by the hardware (tuners encode, ION decodes).
The noise level from the ASRock may vary depending on you system configuration (which fans are inside) and how you use your system. The external power supply is completely fan less and noiseless. Although the ASRock ION 330 does make less noise than most other pc's, it is not completely silent.