For too long I had previously come to terms with the high noise level of my complete system from Dell. My wife has always complained that they can not sleep while I'm playing, because she had heard the old fan even through two closed doors. Since the PC was not only loud when playing but also in other CPU-intensive processes, I knew that had to have contributed significantly to the noise definitely the processor fan. If only it had been playing, and the graphics card the culprit would have to have been.
Since the case of the Dell XPS 7100 is quite compact, the challenge was to find a fan that fits easily. Among the fans that stand out as particularly quiet, so are often variants to find with 120mm propeller. So one would definitely not fit in my case. On the recommendation of the Freezer 7 Pro I've encountered in a Dell user forum, so I could imagine in my purchasing decision on the safe side. However, I still had my doubts about whether a 90mm Propeller can also as quietly as I wish it, rotate.
The installation was a bit fiddly, but did not have too big hurdle because, if you do not the first time an intervention which goes beyond the insertion of expansion cards makes. However, I am a mishap with the thermal grease happened supplied already applied on the contact surface, out of the box, however, is completely unprotected: While I have made myself familiar with the nature and the installation method of the fan, the contact surface came into contact with my clothes , I hope I get the stains out again but even more worried has given me the question of whether the remaining thermal grease still sufficient. Good thing I've found a tube of thermal grease in the basement, but where I can not judge whether this somewhat older crowd was still good enough. Actually, I wanted to give this issue a star deduction, but the end result has me so excited that this fan has earned a perfect score.
After installation, the fan has to work right away and the PC was nice and quiet, but still he had also nothing afford. Then I installed only once to the temperature of the CPU cores to monitor HWMonitor. Now came the acid test: zocken a few rounds of World of Tanks. In this game, the PC always began as loud as a vacuum cleaner to sound on. I could not believe it that he now still remained almost as quietly as. After power turned on and always disbelieved in HWMonitor to, in the fear that my CPU could equal abrauchen lack of sufficient cooling The highest temperature that I could compete with the tool, however, was 48 ° C.
Wow, I'm impressed! Despite only 90mm Propeller super quiet, even under full load, while excellent cooling performance!
Now I need not even have to make the living room door while gambling, my wife does not hear anything more. The bedroom door is to, of course, but even if it were open, they would probably rather the clicks disturbing as the ventilation noise.
