To get rid of some noise from my main computer which is (almost)
always online, I've decided to replace the AMD "box" fan and the
(dead) northbridge fan from my A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard.
I've chosen to use
a Thermalright XP-90
heatsink together with an
Akasa Ultra Quiet (yellow) fan,
and a Zalman ZM-NB47J nothbridge heatsink.
After a few hours of fighting to remove the old heatsinks/fans, and to
install the new ones, I got my computer up again \o/ (my last fan
replacement try made my 5-years old XP 800+ processor die...)
What a change, the fan is really quiet, and the temperatures level
look correct. Too bad that my X550 graphical card has as well a noisy
fan, it will probably get replaced soon :-p
While I was at it, I've upgraded the motherboard BIOS, to see if there
was any improvement about suspend and hibernation.
I've used freedos
to flash the (Award) Bios with a bootable CD.
It went well, but suspend and hibernation still fail...