Help me quieten down my system please

apple_man77

apple_man77

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Hello,

Just putting together my first ever pc (htpc) although currently awaiting to receive the parts.

I've gone for a lian li 354b case with a 140mm top fan and two 120mm front fans as stock.

CPU is an i3 clarkdale 540 with stock cooler.

PSU - Corsair 500w

Not looking at doing anything with odd or hdd as I've only just bought these but if I can swap the fans for something quieter what would you do?

Budget £100. No water cooling as this is my first build and I'm not wanting to try it yet.

Thanks
Mark
 
£100 budget is pretty big.

The first thing I'd change is the stock cooler - that will be where most of the noise comes from.

Get a couple of case fans to go in there too - noctua have a pretty good reputation and maybe run them with a fan controller so you can turn them down a bit if the temperatures will allow?
 
OTT temperature wise yes, but if you are trying to keep things quiet then no. The bigger the cooler the less the fans have to work and the quieter things will be.

Agree with teknokid though, will that fit in your case?
 
Should be my case is 245mm wide that cooler is 160mm tall That gives me 85mm for the mobo/CPU etc.

Does that sound feasible?

Obviously I'd measure it properly before buying but just so I've got an idea.

One of them plus two 120mm noctuas at the front then a sharloon 140mm at the top?
 
that heatsink is still kind of overkill..

I'd be tempted to go for one that blows down onto the motherboard in a small case, I think scythe make one?
 
70 quid for an air cooler and its only two cores. Just an arctic is fine, Ive had one for years.
If you needed anything on top of that then 120mm fans to lower the case temp.

ocuk is selling an all in one water cooler for less, I'd get that if anything. Probably quieter

My case isnt silent but the frequency of the noise is a low slow very consistent whoosh, easily ignored.

The worst noise is high frequency and infrequent or varying much in speed, had a great little auto fan once that span up and down with temps, bad idea
 
GPU fan can be bloody noisy at times... maybe (if the system isn't going to be running anything too fantastic) you could think about a big passive cooler for the GPU?

I honestly think you'd be silly buying the D14 for that setup, something half the size would be perfect - Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 should do you nicely for £45 less than the Noctua!!
 
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