Thanks guys, so I don't have something defective going on with my rig?
If I put my iphone right to my rig, you can clearly hear sound/air circulating and some parts "on" hence making noise. The fans aren't really being pushed at all as I can hear them if I play a graphically intense game.
This whole "whisper quiet" and silent thing really confuses me. I'm browsing the net now and I can still hear my PC. Sure its not noticeable in regards to fans blaring off or like my PS4, but it also not near-silent like my nintendo switch.
There are a lot of variables in sound generation and how it travels. Certain volumes and frequencies various people are more or less sensitive to.
It’s also relative. A PC that’s “silent” to one person could be noisy to another.
Are you happy with it or do you want to change something?
Something as simple as how a certain type of fan draws air through a certain type of filter or grating can change the noise more than you might think.
Even rotating your case or moving it slightly can change the way the sound reflects off the wall... you can potentially direct sound away from your head if you want to get in-depth with it.
A fridge type noise could possibly be a bearing issue in one of the fans. But that doesn’t mean there is an issue, just may sound like that to you. Could also be some air trapped in the water cooler if you have an AIO cooler... that’s easy to get rid of by just wobbling the case a few times in different directions while it’s switched on.
Some find certain brands of fan make a sound that they are sensitive to and others find it quiet.
Another way to locate the noise is to turn each fan on and off in the software for the motherboard or bios... or unplug each fan one at a time if you don’t have that control feature.
I put a lot of effort into making a high performance overclocked machine as close to silent as possible while maintaining reasonable temperatures... takes some doing.
Easiest way to change something is to locate what’s causing the noise. Take the side panel off and move your head around to locate the source... then see if you can/want to do something about it.
My solution was to watercool and go overkill on radiators. Plus pick the right fans that can move more air / create more pressure at a lower rpm. I leave all fans at 30% all the time, only the water pump speed changes and that’s all I need.
A constant noise I find much better than one that constantly changes... so balancing the fan curve well helps a lot.
Only noticeable noise I get is the pump zipping up to 100% on cpu intensive tasks and cool whine from one of the GPUs when gaming.
Have a closer look and tell us where the source of the noise is.
probably not that bad in a normal PC but definitely loud compared to the rest.
