Noisey eMac fan solved with Zalman fanmate

I bought a Zalman fanmate 2 a year ago but I was to scared to install it. However I bit the bullet recently and finally tried it out. It is the best upgrade I could have done. I have the fan operating now at about half speed and it is whisper quiet. Whereas it was a howling monster before. I was about to upgrade to a G5 imac just because I couldn't stand the noise any longer. But now I don't have to, which is good because, as a graphic designer I prefer the CRT.
In my house with the ambient temperature of 71 degrees the exit temperature at the fan was 95 degrees. After turning the fan speed down to the point where I could barely hear it the exit temperature only went up to 99 degrees.
Therefore I can highly recommend this solution for noisey emacs.

Hi Jon, already replied to another post related to this but thought would double my chances of you seeing it. How hard was it to alter the fanmate? The noise on my emac is driving me round the bend.

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Hello Jon,
I don't thnk that model of fan drive is compatible.
If it looks different. I'd take it back.
There are fan add-ons and software that can tweak this issue(I went with software).
There is an article here: http://www.lbodnar.dsl.pipex.com/eMac/eMac-upgrade.html
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> I get nothing of the sort with a vanilla T420, all-intel graphics ...
Machine better at thermals probably (slightly thicker, no nvidia card to generate heat etc), and the BIOS is different from the "s" and "si" models. But constant 4000 RPM and fan noise with these models has been an ongoing saga even in Windows. See the massive "T420s Fan noise Issue" thread - takes a full day to read through it, and "T420 fan noise ?" at:
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Applications Engineering
National Instruments
Attachments:
ni-cdu1610.exe ‏1557 KB

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jianghaoism wrote:
...it was the vibration from the WD Scorpio Black 7200 HDD that I'm using that's causing the sound / vibration I'm experiencing.
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