How to make my silent for as cheap as possible.

[Goose]

My current system (see sig) is currently housed in a Lian Li PC 60 (at least 6 years old). At the moment i just have two intake fans on the front on the case and and my CPU cooler (i'll edit this post once i remember exactly which model).

Now, its not exactly LOUD when not under load but it has always been loud enough to bother me, i couldn't sleep with it on for example. I'm no expert with cases and cooling and whatnot and was wondering how best to go about making it totally silent. I dont overclock or anything so i dont need tons of powerful fans and such.


Any advice is welcome.

Thanks.

 

[DELETED_83755]

Any chance you could move one of the front fans to the back to improve airflow?

The only cheap way to make it silent enough to sleep with it on is get like 2X 1000 rpm fans and replace the existing ones.

 

[jklc]

Start by finding out what is making the noise. If you have a noisy PSU it won't matter how quiet your case fans are. If you're rendering or doing some other CPU intensive task overnight it's going to draw power and make the PSU fans kick in. I bought a Bequiet power supply when they started selling them here and it does a good job for me keeping noise minimal overnight even when encoding video.

If it's the graphics card you can use one of the many fan speed utilities out there and lower it when not doing 3D stuff. What CPU heatsink/fan are you using? If it's the stock Intel one, you could consider buying a nice chunky one and slap a quiet 120mm fan on it. Then there's airflow/quiet case fans as teddy3578 states above.

Hope that helps