Help with some upgrades for more silent operation

S.A.S

S.A.S

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Hi guys haven't looked at PC parts since i built my latest PC a couple of years ago.

I'm having to move my PC back into my bedroom as a family member is coming to stay for a while untill they are back on their feet. Issue is, my system is rather loud and i leave it on overnight for various reasons and i just know its going to become an annoyance to sleep with the constant drum and fan noise (i need a very dark and quiet room to sleep haha).

I would like to ask your guys advice on potentially a new case, cooler, fans to bring down my system noise to a more acceptable volume anyway.

At the moment, these are my specs

CPU: I7 5820K @4.2GHz
Mobo: Asus x99 deluxe ATX board
GPU: MSI 980TI (i think the fans turn off at low op so thats nice)
PSU: EVGA 850P2 (again i think the fan turns off at low operation, i could be wrong though, but still PSU are quiet anyway).
Case: Corsair 700D (very open and very loud)
Cooler: Corsair H110I GT (i have noctua fans on it but for some reason corsair link doesnt regulate their speeds very well and will only drop them to 1200RPM even after manually entering lower numbers)
Case fans: stock corsair ones

Thanks for your time :)
 
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Silent wing 3 ! Non High speed ones I run at 100% all the time , and was with PC next to my son's cot bed ;)
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Recent review of Eisbaer LT 360 has it beating corsairs new flagship 360 - also pump is 100% silent :)
Rad is copper Vs aluminium and fins per inch is less then Asetek units so slower operating fans can be used , whilst the pump and twice the flow/pressure head

Case above can take 360 in the top or rear. Place in the front with top panel left on for silent operation
Glass has better sound insulation then just plain metal/metal+acrylic window . Is a version with has no window with a panel and sound insulation as well
 
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S.A.S said:
(i need a very dark and quiet room to sleep haha)
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That windowed case will light up the room nicely :p

If you want to dull the lights cut the sticky bit of a postit note over an led and it will dim it. Insulation tape if its inside the the case or you don't want to see it at all.
 
mrbazmondo said:
That windowed case will light up the room nicely :p

If you want to dull the lights cut the sticky bit of a postit note over an led and it will dim it. Insulation tape if its inside the the case or you don't want to see it at all.
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blacked out version :D

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Hi

I would try and sort out your current hardware before spending on a new case/cooler etc.

What happens if you choose quiet mode in Corsair link ? Can you not alter the cpu fan speed in the bios ?

The stock case fans can probably be replaced by the BeQuiet Silent Wings 3 mentioned above although they are pretty pricey at £21 each.

If you end up wanting to change the cooler I would go for something like a Noctua D15S or BeQuiet Dark Rock Pro 3 etc.
 
Thanks for the replies guys, i have been looking at the be quiet! stuff also today and it seems quite good. I think even bar everything else the fans and maybe the cooler may be the way to go if i cant get my corsair to regulate these noctuas properly.

The problem with my Corsair link is very odd, when set to quiet mode, the pump drops and the fans do drop but like i say one drop to 1200RPM and the other drop to around 1300RPM, settings the RPM lower manually doesnt lower it anywhere below that. I'll take a look in the bios when i get a chance tonight, but the fans are connected to the cooler. I'll mess around.
 
The good thing with Alphacool/bequiet AIO pump is you set the thing for 100% and even told to do so and leave it .
Fans handled by Mobo bios

As Lee mentioned, those silent wings like Noctua are damn expensive !
If you happen to 2 of them (140mm?) Could replace stock fans on silent wing 280
 
I tend to find that despite logic, the case has very little to do with noise. Thing is that the more open a case is, the better ventilated it is, so the less you need fans to make it cool. It's only when you really go in search of complete silence that the case can really make a difference.
Anyway! This is something you don't want to me to say but I would certainly replace the fans. Use Corsair ML PRO's. I know, they are expensive, but the thing with the ML's is they have a huge range of RPM AND they work with LINK. The 140 PRO's way from 400RPM all the way up to 2000 RPM and they also seem to really suit the Corsair radiators. I have a PC that uses no less than seven of them in a very open case and it's very quiet indeed. Most of the time the fans are sat at 600RPM.
 
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@Pocah some fans you don't need to worry about rpm, set them max and walk away :D
Bit yeah, good PWM range fans are lacking a bit - bequiet suffers this in fans they use for Air Coolers. New range sorts this out , yet case fans don't have this issue ...:/
 
The stock fans on the h110igt should be pretty silent when set at 40% speed in Link, presume your not hammering the cpu and it should be fine, I run my 5820k at 4.5ghz with 40-50% fan speed on a h110igt too, temps are fine
 
LeMson said:
The stock fans on the h110igt should be pretty silent when set at 40% speed in Link, presume your not hammering the cpu and it should be fine, I run my 5820k at 4.5ghz with 40-50% fan speed on a h110igt too, temps are fine
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He is using Noctua fans on the AIO. It just seems that Corsair link won't regulate the fan speed.
 
Sorry for the late reply, i've binned link and am running the fans off of the cpu header on the bios and its a night and day difference bringing them down to ~800rpm on idle with a nice custom curve. Now i can just hear the pump ticking haha.

Just seen the Be quiet AIO's go on a sale, might grab one and try it out. Think i'm going to buy a new case to, i've noticed the HDD cage in my 700d makes like a thumping noise every time the WD drive spins up and down. Seems like the torque generated is transferring and shifting the cage, everything tightened down and in place right. Maybe im just a jinx though XD.

After looking at new stuff i just get the urge to upgrade anyway lol
 
Eisbaer LT is the slimmer cheaper version to silent loop, though unlike the standard Eisbaer, they haven't used bequiet Pure Wing fans.
Def worth getting the silent loop if it's on sale, set the pump to 100% and off you go :)

They also have longer tube length then Alphacool which helps sometimes
 
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