Looking to get a silent PC.

Robi_uk

Robi_uk

Robi_uk

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Hi,

I have a Coolermaster HAF 932, i7 920 with stock cooler. At the moment with all the fans (all stock) in the case it is kinda loud at full load. Get complaints from room downstairs that they can hear the humming!!

I am looking at watercooling to silence the PC as much as I can at the same time being able to oc the cpu to 4ghz+.

Have been reading around watercooling and thinking if I should start off with a Corsair H100 or go straight into a full water cooling kit?
 
The easiest way to get 100% silence while keeping everything nice and cool would be to invest in one of the Phobya 1080/1260 radiators. You should be able to run one completely passive.
 
The HAF cases are designed for air cooling aka LOTS of holes.
Silent PC have very next to no holes and indirect sound paths to the vents they do have.

I guessing you actually want a quiet pc not a silent one

What graphic card and psu do you have (they can be the noisey part of a pc)

Imho a H100 is not a step toward a quieter pc or a good way into watercooling.
Can be very effective in smaller cases - but that's not an issue with a HAF :D

That the bad out of the way - now the good.
The HAF can be tweeked very easily to form a wind tunnel. (in front/out top)
Swap to a benfenix spectra 230mm front and top (on a controller)
Block up the side panel
Block the rear 140 fan hole (or add a TY-140/other)
Psu on own air loop (fan faceing down)
Move all HHD into optical drive bays (bungee mod)
Optional (cut out HHD cage)
Get a Tower or twin tower cpu cooler (TRUE, K2, SA, D14 etc) fans pointing up
Get a Gelid Icy Vision / Arctic Accelero for the graphic card.
Tidy all the cables behind the mobo tray (if not already done)
If case on carpet - lift it up - piece of hardboard minimum - bottle tops, metal angle, Cut pipe, yogurt pots, bricks etc.
 
Thanks for the info all and thank you for the detailed info shadow. I will look into all of that.
And you are right I am looking for something a lot quiter.. although silent would be perfect :P, when I initially bought the case I was thinking of having it air cooled only and sound was not an issue back then, but now I have to keep it as low as possible...

I have a 850 watt coolermaster psu dont remember the model bought it years ago.
I use to have a Zotac GTX275 Amp edition but that died on me after an accident with some leftover tea :/ Currently I have a Sapphire HD 7770 with a single fan. But I will hopefully upgrade this to a mid/high range card at some point in the future. I know these cards are loud also...
 
7770 is the perfect card for a quiet build - low power and heat.
An aftermarket cooler would work wonders on it.
You may even be able to run it passive with a Accelero S1 PLUS
 
Jaheermk said:
Very bina laowe im ito kumain ng puki mula sa titi pagkain ngunit ang luya ng cut retaftd jheeufh fuhainot.
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I thought so too.

I started off wanting to build a silent PC about 2 years back. I ended up building one that is very quiet. It's totally air cooled. The trick is to get good flow through the case, positive pressure to keep the dust out, use good quiet fans and a fan controller. I was using a Sythe Kase Master, but as of today, I'm just using a Lian Li one knob thing that does the job fine.

As is I've got a Lynnfield i5 750 overclocked at 3.8Ghz. 12Gb RAM and an overclocked 7850 in a biddy little Lian Li A05N crammed with 120mm fans and a 140mm top exhaust. It's barely audible. It's on 24/7 and although there's a thin wall inbetween, it lives less than a metre from our bed in the next room. The only complaints I get are from clickety clackety keyboard.
 
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