Fan Nosie ?

baz178 · 7 Sep 2014 at 17:41

Hi when playing games the computer is running brilliant but the noise of the fans when playing games like battlefield are really annoying. is there anything i can do to make it less noisier ?

My spec of computer is

Gigabyte Radeon R9 290 Rev2.0 WindForce 3X OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor

MSI Z87I Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ITX Motherboard

Seasonic G series 550w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply

Toshiba SSD HDTS212EZSTA 9.5mm 128GB Solid State Hard Drive

Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614)

BitFenix Prodigy 'Yang' Mini-ITX Cube Case - Black/White

TeamGroup Xtreem LV "Frost Edition" 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel

Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) HDD

OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM

Corsair Hydro H90 140mm High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler

Morfinel · 7 Sep 2014 at 20:15

Msi have software for the mob to control fan speed or you can buy reduction cable, but during gaming your gpu will be noisiest

baz178 · 8 Sep 2014 at 08:10

Morfinel said:
Msi have software for the mob to control fan speed or you can buy reduction cable, but during gaming your gpu will be noisiest

Would you recommend buying anything to make it less noisier ? Or would you just mess about with the fan speeds ?

ttaskmaster · 8 Sep 2014 at 13:41

Have you identified what the noisy fans are?
Chances are it'll be the GPU as Morfinel says, but it just might be the case/PSU/H90 fans... if it's any of these, they are easily changed and we have a load of fans we can recommend (Noctua, Noctua or Noctua, heh heh

)!

baz178 · 8 Sep 2014 at 14:48

ttaskmaster said:
Have you identified what the noisy fans are?
Chances are it'll be the GPU as Morfinel says, but it just might be the case/PSU/H90 fans... if it's any of these, they are easily changed and we have a load of fans we can recommend (Noctua, Noctua or Noctua, heh heh )!

Ye it's the Gpu making all the noise, is there any thing I can do with that ? Or is it just live with it ?

Robzere31 · 8 Sep 2014 at 15:14

I ended up watercooling the gpu as it was the noisiest item in my machine.
Now whatever the load I put on it, it's lovely & quiet.

baz178 · 8 Sep 2014 at 15:27

Robzere31 said:
I ended up watercooling the gpu as it was the noisiest item in my machine.
Now whatever the load I put on it, it's lovely & quiet.

What items would I need if I was to water cool it that would also fit inside my box ?

Morfinel · 8 Sep 2014 at 15:29

baz178 said:
Ye it's the Gpu making all the noise, is there any thing I can do with that ? Or is it just live with it ?

Few things to try: clean the gpu fans and remove any dust and try to keep low temp inside the case with plenty of fresh air, make sure the back of pc is not too close to wall where hot air is getting extracted, what is your gpu temp on idle atm?

ttaskmaster · 8 Sep 2014 at 15:52

I'm not that familiar with the case, but it looks like you could yank the upper HDD cage out and chuck another fan behind the front panel instead. That'd increase cool airflow intake.

I personally find having many fans at lower revs = better cooling and lower noise, rather than a couple of fans blasting air at top revs.

Also, where is the case sat?
Is it somewhere with a lot of empty space around it, or is it tucked away under a desk?
Is the room temperature particularly high at all?

MrMD · 8 Sep 2014 at 16:37

The windforce cooler on Amd cards gets pretty loud(i have 280x,it runs cool but loud)

You could use Afterburner to change the fan speed curve.

AFAIK on windforce cards the target temp is set to 72 degrees by default.290's are designed to run 24/7 upto 95c.

You should have plenty of headroom to increase the threshold of temperate that the fans speed up at.