The eternal search for silence.

[MeddlE]

Most of you will have been there, you replace the noisiest component in your PC only to find that something else is also annoyingly loud (not that you could hear it before).

Anyway, after replacing the Panaflo fans on my CPU cooler with Thermalright TY140 fans and enjoying the reduction in noise I couldn't help but notice that my GPU card was annoyingly loud. To me anyway.

My GPU is the Asus Voltage Tweak 4890, the one with the twin fan cooler. Stupidly I had bought an Arctic Cooling Twin Turbo Pro (ACTTP) before realising that my GPU wasn't a reference design and it wouldn't fit. ACTTP gets put into a box of spares and left for a couple of months.

Then I get the idea of fitting the fans from the ACTTP to the non-reference cooler on the Asus. Turns out it wasn't that hard to do.

Original shroud removed.

Asus cooler, pre-cleaning, it's a heavy beast of a cooler.

Bare card, pre-cleaning.

Fans attached to cooler and re-attached to card, Ceramique paste used.

Back in the PC.

Two screws at each end hold the ACTTP fans to the card, the fans plug into the card and are still controlled by the drivers. The noise reduction is huge. At 100% fans speed it is now quieter than it used to be at 35%.

Anyway, thought I'd share.

 

[dazzerd]

Good work and yes I agree the quest for silence is obsessive just don;t start watercooling else you'll find your pockets dry very quickly

 

[MeddlE]

Watercooling has never really grabbed me. My next project is a scratch built case similar in layout to the Silverstone FT02 but made from wood for better sound deadening. I already have the 180mm Silverstone fans just need to complete other household projects first.

 

[Reaper 392]

sorry for the thread hijack, but what have you used to get (what looks like) the USB headers of the motherboard plugged into an expansion bay

i assume its just something you screw in to the expansion bay (which comes with some leads), but i cant find anything like it on OcUK

 

[MeddlE]

sorry for the thread hijack, but what have you used to get (what looks like) the USB headers of the motherboard plugged into an expansion bay

i assume its just something you screw in to the expansion bay (which comes with some leads), but i cant find anything like it on OcUK

Not a problem, it's 2 of these

They always used to come with motherboards and I prefer my USB ports out of the way at the back of the case. Kids and cats can't get to them there.

 

[Reaper 392]

ah, USB backplate. thats the name i was looking for

i figured thats roughly what it would look like, but i couldnt for the life of me work out what it was called. a quick copy image url sorted me out with that one. thanks