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Am I the only person who doesnt care about fan noise?

I care about fan noise a lot. I wear open headphones but even if I didn't I want my computer to be as silent as possible. Ideally I'd only need my fans to run at 600rpm. Unfortunately I require about 900rpm for cool enough operation.

I'm also interested in performance per watt cause it means less heat needs to be dissipated and therefore less fan noise. So going from my overvolted 250W Titan to a ~180W GTX1080 is another reason for me to upgrade.
 
Disco_P said:
I care about fan noise a lot. I wear open headphones but even if I didn't I want my computer to be as silent as possible. Ideally I'd only need my fans to run at 600rpm. Unfortunately I require about 900rpm for cool enough operation.

I'm also interested in performance per watt cause it means less heat needs to be dissipated and therefore less fan noise. So going from my overvolted 250W Titan to a ~180W GTX1080 is another reason for me to upgrade.
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180w is a huge con for most people on here talking about it 1% will be using 180w everyone else will be using 220w and overclocking. And some with AIB will be going further with versions featuring 6+8 i bet.

The same applies to noise, These cards will have the same wattage and noise as the 9 series to get 50% performance. And even then this will be for the lucky silicone lottery winners who can keep the RPM low. You wait and see!
 
I don't want to wear a headset all the time and I don't want my speakers at 100% because I'm not 15 anymore, yes fan noise is a consideration to me but not the be-all and end-all.
 
Unless you had one of those special edition OCuk full tower cases from ~2002, with 6(?) 120mm fans (Ystech?), you have not experienced real PC noise... Sounded like a jet plane taking off when all active!:eek:
 
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Obviously fan noise doesn't bother you if you wear headphones so you can't hear it. Try taking your headphones off and playing a session of something atmospheric / stealthy without a lot of gunshots and explosions going on in the background and then let us know whether it bothers you.

Just as you have a method for eliminating / reducing fan noise some folks that don't want or need to use headphones use other methods such as custom cooling or choosing cards based on their noise levels which is dependant on TDP and the quality of the cooler.

Excessive fan noise does bother me when gaming because I don't want or need to wear headphones (I have a good quality soundcard and speaker setup) and I tend to play more atmospheric games. For this reason I have a Prolimatech MK-26 GPU cooler with 140mm fans fitted to my overclocked 780Ti which makes a huge difference to fan noise during gaming making it much less of an issue.
 
Theoretically, if there is an option of a 300W beast card with 2x Titan X performance or the 180w 1080 for example, I will go with the beast every time (just will never buy the reference version of it and go Hybrid to cool it quietly). Saying that, if they release a small chip high end card like the 1080, I'm not exactly gonna complain that it's efficient at the end of the day because it's going to be the best single GPU anyway until the next Titan or high end AMD card.
 
In the past I didn't care so much about quiet PCs but the experience of occasionally need to keep my PC running overnight in my bedroom has changed my mind. I'm a very light sleeper and find it difficult to drift off, so in the future I'd personally be looking for something as quiet as possible without any silly LEDs.
 
i just rebuilt my pc into a silent case
i have very good hearing, & even Idle with Quiet fans Noctuas spinning at 200RPM) i can hear them. & even gaming i can hear certain sounds over my headphones, (good ones) Hd700s


its not just about gaming its idle too, less of a concern now, But some games like American truck sim or Rocket league i might want to enjoy on the big tv :)
 
I rebuilt my PC into a Define S with Sythe Glide Stream all round after hours of reading just to get it quieter, its still not as quiet as I would like but its loads better than it was
 
I detest wearing headphones and when gaming, I just wear them round my neck for comms and have the soundbar for audio. Fan noise doesn't bother me that much but at times I want peace and quiet in SP games.
 
Relentless81 said:
I rebuilt my PC into a Define S with Sythe Glide Stream all round after hours of reading just to get it quieter, its still not as quiet as I would like but its loads better than it was
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My Define S is silent, but it's completely passive up to about 60c GPU temp.

It can be done, just needs careful selection of parts. Typical enthusiast wouldn't like my CPU for example, but I lost no performance from my 4690k and this T CPU runs at about 32w flat out and doesn't go over 55c passively cooled.

Strix 980ti doesn't kick in until 60c and the PSU is fanless.

It can be done if you care enough, for most though just a few slow moving fans is enough to keep things as quiet as they like, not many folks want something absolutely silent.
 
My motherboard wont allow the fans to drop below 700RPM so thats mostly why. Plus I added more fans so it has 2 x 140MM intakes, an AIO with original Corsair fan as exhaust and one of the original Fractal GP14 in the roof

When I get an new GPU I can finally remove the AIO and just have one 140MM exhaust

All fans are controlled by a Phanteks PWM controller and because the board doesnt allow them to spin any less than 700RPM I cant get the system silent until I get a new board and CPU with better fan control :(

CPU is an 8350 which doesnt help, GPU is a 290X
 
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I run other software on the GPU so my headphones won't be on all the time the GPU is working at full power, and I use open headphones so the outside noise still gets to me, that's why I want a low noise option.

I have no mechanical drives, and no fans until the temps get to above 65 degrees. That's how I roll. 100% quiet PC 95% of the times.
 
I care a lot about fan noise. I sometimes game with open headphones, sometimes through speakers. Either way, I can hear a noisy GPU, especially if I'm not blasting out the sounds or a game is light on sound effects or dialogue heavy.

Everything else in my system runs silent at normal load and pretty quiet under high load, so I don't want a a whining GPU wrecking that. So it matters to me.

As for power consumption, that matters too. It's good that the industry is making power saving an issue. At least with overclocking we have the choice to use less power at stock or OC as need arises.
 
I'm not acutely sensitive to noise but I do like a quiet pc. Over the last few years, though, it hasn't been a problem (especially quiet models from around the GTX480 SOC onwards). The quietest card I've ever owned was the replacement for the GTX480, a GTX570 SOC. Bliss. :)
 
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I'm in the process of shutting up my PC- new case fans, new radiator fans, remove OC... Now I can really really hear my 390x hotting up and it bugs me. So my next GPU purchase won't be the cheaper version of a model!

This is because playing the likes of GTA V and Witcher 3 the fans drown out the game sounds so I have to turn upy speakers and have the two noises competing, very annoying
 
Don't mind low-level fan noise as I use headphones. Keep it on the quite side using larger, but slower spinning fans.

Turbine howling from my 290 was way too load under full load, so I fitted a 3rd party cooler.
 
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