New Mobo & CPU Other Vista Discussions Discuss New Mobo & CPU in the Windows Vista forums; Yay! i went my local computer fair and grabbed myself a bargain i got a Pentium D 2.6Ghz Dual Core Processor including fan and Abit Motherboard with 7.1 ...

[ProCookie]

Yay! i went my local computer fair and grabbed myself a bargain i got a Pentium D 2.6Ghz Dual Core Processor including fan and Abit Motherboard with 7.1 HD Sound and a Asus shiny black case all for £99

It feels miles faster than my old Pentium 4, mabye thats the Dual core? anyway im quite happy with it, the only thing is that the fans a bit noisy but i can get a new one later on. Wooo! new pc

[Seansmit17]

Nice one ant! sounds like you got the 805 same as me.. mine is 2.66ghz also and yes... compared to my old Pentium 4 3.2Ghz and that had HyperThreading this dual core is much faster

[airman]

I had a P-4 3.2 before this 3.4 Presler 945 D core and you find out you can do a lot of tasks at once and not slow down the chip and this 945 with the Zalman 9500 runs cool as a cucumber and I mean cool when I first install it I thought there was a problem with the monitoring but I have check it with different software including the bios and they are all pretty close it putts along surfing and such at 18-20c this time of year with Mobo at 26c room is 22c plus i put lots of poliching work on cpu and heatsink with AS well glad to see someone is upgrading or taking advantage of the price cuts from Intel.

[Znod]

Cool Ant. Way to go, and congrats.

[ProCookie]

excellent i think i got a good buy then, its should serve me well for a few years at least. Now i just need to sort this fan out, when i turn on the PC it goes crazy then it gets a bit calmer...but still noticeable loud...any ideas to shut it up a bit?

[Seansmit17]

all depends... if your mobo is ausus the chances are theres a thing called q-fan control in the bios, just turn that on and it will control the fan speed depending on the cpu temp.. if the temp is low the fan spins slower if its high the fan spins faster. i have it one on my pc lol.. its qutie funny.. when the pc boots up it steadly gets faster and faster while windows loads.. once its loged in and loaded up the fan slows down and you can hear it.. then i start doing stuff and i can hear it speed up a little lol

[ProCookie]

my mobo is a Abit, i checked the BIOS and theres loads of settings for the fan but i havnt a clue what any of them mean i will write some of them down see if you guys know what its all about

[crabby]

Post soon, I'm bored

crabby

[ProCookie]

Ok i got these settings

PC Health Function
PWM 1 Mode Setiing
PWM 1 Ramp Rate
PWM 2 Mode Setting
PWM 2 Ramp Rate

[crabby]

Um.... no other information? PWM stands for power management, so they are pretty generic 'settings'

crabby