How important is PC noise to you...???

If you can't hear your fans then you haven't clocked your system enough.
I don't care how loud my gaming system is as I wear headphones to play & I live alone. My other 2 towers are almost silent though & my lappy makes more noise than the pair of them, New Lappy/notebook on route though. :cool:

So Gaming system sounds like a Hurricane. :D
2 Towers for my other activitys are almost silent. ;)
Lappy is a heap of crap that sounds like it's grinding coffee. :o

Like I say though I have a little Acer on it's way & plan on using that rather than any of my other systems for general browsing & messing.

If you really want noise round mine though i only have to turn everything on together, The lights dip & dogs 2 streets away start howling. :D
 
Minimoke said:
H2o, if you're using components such as the ones in my system, it's going to be loud. Fans can only do so much whilst keeping the noise down at the same time. When you hit that barrier, one of the only options is watercooling. Chris.
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i don't know what your on about but i have core 2 quad 9550, 4 gigs of ram, same gcard and i manage to keep it very quiet without water cooling

the 2 4850 would make some noise specially @load but you don't need water cooling to fix that.
 
I like a quiet system espicially when watching movies, you don't want to hear some fan making noise in the background disrupts the immersion & concentration :P
 
Noise bothers me a lot which is why my PC is not only fast but also deadly silent so much so that people often ask if the PC is on or in Standby!

Freezer 7 Pro, 4x 120mm fans, 3x SATAII HDDs, GTX260 fan, HX520 PSU.

All CPU/Case fans @ 50% speed
 
It doesn't bother me if i am using it. I tend to have music on or the tv or some sport anyway. BUT it does matter to be when i am using it at night to stream HD content to my tv and my volume is quiet. A loud fan gets rather annoying then!
 
not really, i usually am watching a movie or playing my music,

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lol :p
 
mr_x_plosion said:
Noise is important to me as my pc is in my living room, I can't hear mine at all with my tv on normal listening volume.
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Your so gay haha :D

My fans are always on max untill night time were i will just turn the loudest fan down (spins at like 4000rpm on full lol), so noise don't really bother me :p
 
It really bothers me, so my case is 3 metres away behind loads of boxes, and it only has 2 case fans at 500mm. The suspended Sammy F1 HD is the loudest thing in my case. :cool:
 
MikeHunt79 said:
It really bothers me, so my case is 3 metres away behind loads of boxes, and it only has 2 case fans at 500mm. The suspended Sammy F1 HD is the loudest thing in my case. :cool:
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Is your system watercooled mike, on my setup im on the limits of normal air cooling, (2x2000 rpm fans on a true black) and 3 more in the case, id really like to push the oc on the q6600, but i think im on the limit as far as air cooling goes, at 3.8ghz im loaded at 68-68-62-62 on the cores, both cpu and TRUE lapped.
 
setter said:
Is your system watercooled mike, on my setup im on the limits of normal air cooling, (2x2000 rpm fans on a true black) and 3 more in the case, id really like to push the oc on the q6600, but i think im on the limit as far as air cooling goes, at 3.8ghz im loaded at 68-68-62-62 on the cores, both cpu and TRUE lapped.
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I have 2 rigs, 1 aircooled and 1 watercooled... The aircooled one is quieter so it's the one I use most....

My watercooled machine is a q6600 running at 3.6 GHz with around 1.375 vcore, watercooling loop = Fuzion, pump and PA120.3 with 3 yate loons bolted to it.

It's pretty quiet, as I've got the motherboard controlling the fan speed, idle is below 500rpm and it ramps up to 1200rpm during stress testing, and you can hear it then... My core temps are around 75 which may seem high but that would never happen under normal use... Under normal use (DAW and gaming) it rarely goes above 700rpm so all is good. :) The only other fan is on the Corsair PSU and that's always pretty low as I'm not running some silly crossfire gfx... I could clock it higher as the previous owner of my chip had it over 3.8GHz on water but I need my machine quiet!

If I were you i'd downclock a little and maybe try a single fan on the TRUE... Also look at the HR-01 and xigmatek s1283 as these tend to work better than the TRUE with low airflow before going to water...

EDIT: I didn't notice you didn't mention noise, in that case strap some delta's to your TRUE and clock away! :D Someone on here bought some crazy fans and a 24v PSU, I think he managed to get a nice clock. 3.8 is bloody fast tho, are you striving for 4GHz? I can't really see the need for anything more than a 3.2GHz quad right now (despite my running mine at 3.6! ;) ) unless your benching...
 
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I normaly run the system at 3.6ghz (1.4vcore) all my fans, 5 x sharkoon 2000 rpm's are run of a cheapy akasa fan controler, the rig will do 3.8ghz at a breeze, never goes above 70c in prime small fft, im considering moving to a q9550 to try and achieve 4ghz+ on a quad on air, my rig is very nice for gaming, but the overclocker in me wants more:D

EDIT, i like the yate loon fans myself, have three in a second akasa eclipse with an athon 4000
 
Noise dont matter mate, im practically deaf from my other hobby, clay pigeon shooting, and i think it was pneumonic and his delta air cooled rigs on here using a q6600, think he got to 4.2 ghz or there, gotta admit 3.8ghz on a q6600 is nice (considering mines a late batch cpu) along with my gtx 280 at 714,/1251/1504, makes an awesome gaming rig, but im thinking of adding a q9550 into the mix, fancy a new toy.
 
I can't stand fan noise. When I'm using my PC, I'm usually either trying to relax or to think, and I can't do either with a noisy PC at my feet.

My first Athlon XP rig was something I got second hand and it sounded like a vacuum cleaner. Stock cooler on a crappy motherboard so it ran at full speed all the time, dodgy chipset fan, old Geforce with a tiny heatsink and a 40mm fan doing about 8000rpm, rickety case, crappy 80mm case fans with rubbish bearings, horrible Maxtor HDD with the old kind of bearings that made lots of noise, cheap PSU with noisy fan. Couldn't have made it any louder if I tried. Taking that thing to pieces to try and quieten it down was how I first learnt to build PCs :D

I specced my current system from the ground up to be quiet whilst keeping decent performance - the aim was to be able to sleep two metres away from it whilst it was running full bore at encoding or Folding@Home. Most important thing to get right is the case. I chose the P182 which is great from a quiet computing perspective - the noise reducing panels make a big difference, and the hard drives mount with rubber grommets which makes them practically inaudible. One thing I have meant to do is to swap the stock fans for something better - on low speed they're quiet but far from silent.

Inside, on the Q6600 I have the Noctua NH-U12P with Noctua fan. I'm seriously impressed with this CPU cooler. Have the fan at about 1000rpm, which is silent, and it keeps the quad at 3.2 well below 60c. Once I'd been doing some careless fiddling and the fan wire got caught in the fan and stopped it completely. The CPU was pegged at 100% doing Folding@Home. It ran perfectly stable for two hours before I saw that the CPU was at 80c. If that doesn't show how good the Noctua heatsink is, I don't know what does.

Moving on, chipset is silent and HD is the WD 640GB which is very quiet, much quieter than the Seagate it replaced. The 8800GT has the Arctic Cooling passive cooler on it, with a low-speed 120mm fan cable-tied on - no noise, with the bonus of significantly better temps than the horrible stock thing. It's all powered by the Corsair 520W PSU, which seems to be silent. It's not the quietest system, but the noise is really unobtrusive considering the level of performance that you get from the CPU and that the temps are good. Talking of obtrusiveness, one thing I've avoided is variable-speed fan control. I can see the point, but in reality the constant changes in the fan pitch are far more annoying than the noise itself. When a noise is constant you learn to block it out.
 
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On mine mattus, i use 5x2000 rpm fans, run of a fan controller, so theyre at 1000 rpm most of the time, i tried the noctua cooler but it couldnt cope with my q6600, hence the TRUE black, all my fans are run off a controler which makes some difference. I used to use 2 raptors in raid0, performance was great, but the noise was unbearable, switched to a samsung f1 spinpoint 320gb, i can barely hear it, and its nice and quick, even my gtx 280, which i run on a manual fan speed of 60% is pretty quiet.
 
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