Fans?

[DampDog]

Daft question of maybe not. Is it worth spending the extra money on buying quiet fans. My system is pretty old anyway and I've noticed (or imagined) it's a little bit louder than it used to be. All my fans are simply what came with the case.

Is it worth replacing them with quiet alternatives, or are the quiet versions not that much better than the cheaper alternatives?

Must it, it's something that I'd never thought of until I read a snippet the other day. Think I have 2X 140's & 2X 120's.

 

[DampDog]

No issues with airflow, I'm not overclocked, so everything is nice and cool. it would just be nice if I could get it a little quieter.

It's not massively noisy anyway, just thought I's ask. Doesn't help that my system is up on my desk next to my left ear. Cheapest thing would be tuck it away behind the desk.

Cheers anyway...

 

[DampDog]

Silly question, but do you keep the PC dusted out? That might be part of the problem.

Fans made to be quiet often achieve this by running slower, which means reduced performance. Of course there is the perfomance/noise balance factor and for that I would also recommend Noctua. They also come in dark grey/black nowadays, if caramel brown and fudge beige isn't a colour scheme to your taste.
However, other high performance fans may also deliver great cooling eprformance without needing to spin at full chat, thereby also delivering a quieter experience. For that, I would personally favour the Corsair ML120s.

I've just updated my graphics card so took the opportunity to give everything a good clean, everything is shining like a new pin at the moment. I suspect it's just age, some of the fans must be 6-8 years old. I was simply curious rather than it being a big issue for me.

 

[DampDog]

cheers

 

[DampDog]

It's good as far as I'm concerned peeps, all views, observations and opinions are welcome.

One thing I have noticed is that all of the fans in my system are mounted directly to the chassis. Do the little rubberised mounts help isolate the case from little resonances coming from the fans?

As I've said it's not really an issue for me, but if I can quieten things down cheaply I don't mind having a play around.