How can I quieten down my PC?

bmad

bmad

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Hi.

My PC has recently been moved to the living room for various reasons. The problem is its so flippin loud under load. Basically its the graphics card, (GTX 295) sounds like its going to takeoff everytime I play a game. Just never noticed before when the PC sat under a desk.

Anyway I was wondering if there were cases available which provided sound insulation. Or is watercooling the way forward. I have never watercooled before so would prefer the case option.

Thanks for any advice
 
At the end of the day, a case wont do much for noise reduction. Your best bet is either changing the fan speed profiles, a custom cooler, or watercooling like you said :)
 
just get headphones and play games / music through them :)

I use xilence red wing fans on all my pc's now, I used to use the sharkoon golf ball fans, but my local supplier gets me the xilence fans for a great price

Nice and quiet
 
Although you can buy sound dampening cases and material to fit inside your existing case. I'm not sure what it does for temps though.

We use a NZXT case at work in an audio studio that has sound damping panels installed. It does result in a near silent pc when combined with some aftermarket coolers.
 
bmad said:
Anyway I was wondering if there were cases available which provided sound insulation.
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Antec P180-serie and Fractal Design R2 are really only cases with proper design and dampening at stock. Generic light foams can't resist vibrations and their acoustic opacity is rather lousy at normally used thicknesses.
After them from hundreds of different cases on market there's only small group of silencing friendly cases (mostly from Lian Li) just "waiting for" mass damping.

Same requirements defining case as silencing friendly also define is there any sense to spend any money to lining your current case.
But that GTX295 is essentially double electric heater and will make always noise in there unless you get some custom build case which is heavy enough to need forklift for moving it... Instead of just blindly staring at what is fastest you should always look how that was achieved. (like how Fermi's over double consumption makes it have crap efficiency compared to HD5870)


Scurra said:
We use a NZXT case at work in an audio studio that has sound damping panels installed. It does result in a near silent pc when combined with some aftermarket coolers.
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Hush doesn't have any proper dampening and while in Whisper foam is considerably thicker than standard after that it's acoustically very mediocre case with lack of mass damping, direct noise escape path (if you see through door so can noise go through it unhindered) and some extremely cheap airflow decreasing and turbulence noise increasing stamped exhaust fan meshes.
 
just to point out that youcould get some rubber washers to fit inbetween your case and its fans. this made a big noise reduction in mine. You could also place it furtheraway or next to the sofa to use the sofa as a dampner for the noise. Also see if you can fit a bigger fan in as you can run this at slower speeds for same cooling power which makes it less noisy. just to ask, do you really need it dead silent? your not gonna really notice it whilst you have the TV on or a film with the music turned up!
 
Akasa anti vibration fan mounts.

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These reduced the noise of my pc a lot. Sadly ocuk dont have em :(

When in game i usualy turn all my fans to max, sounds like a hoover tbh but ive got headphones on so its not a problem :)
 
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