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Dark88

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my temps are running very low so is there anyway I can turn down the speed on all my fans? I'm not sure which 1s are making the noise but it sounds like a I have a mini hurricane in my case :P any help appreciated.
 
Asus P5N32-E SLi
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7
antec 900 case (with original fans, 2 small in front, big in top, small at back)
OCZ 850W PSU
8800 640mb GPU

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Change the switch on the fans to either in the middle (quite quiet, but still has good air flow) or as close to the cable as possible (lowest speed)
 
if your looking for quiet case fans i reccomend akasa ambers i changed all the stock fans on my thermaltake tsunami to theese. made a lot of difference as far as noise plus brought case temps down a bit
 
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i highly recomend zalman fans they are only 4-5 quid each and come with 4 rubber mounts for your case tio stop vibration and come with a 7v resistor cable which knocks the fan down to about 800-1000 rpm which still produces 40cf/m beats the hell out of ambers for the price/performance
 
Massive Attack said:
i highly recomend zalman fans they are only 4-5 quid each and come with 4 rubber mounts for your case tio stop vibration and come with a 7v resistor cable which knocks the fan down to about 800-1000 rpm which still produces 40cf/m beats the hell out of ambers for the price/performance
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His Antec Gamer case already has this option to run the fans slower.

Not sure why the OP hasn't done this. :confused:
 
is there also any way to lower the speed on cpu cooler or PSU? will the case fans be making the majority of the noise?
 
ok all case fans are lowered now :) still getting quite a bit of noise.

i'm running a C2D on an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7
 
Darkmage88 said:
ok all case fans are lowered now :) still getting quite a bit of noise.

i'm running a C2D on an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7
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turn off all the case fans...

That way you will find where the noise is coming from.
 
I have a fan controller on my Freezer 7 and its quiter at full speed than my 120mm Sharkoon fans.

What gfx card and psu is it? maybe its these making the noise.

Nick
 
is there an easy way to do this or am I gonna have to root around inside my case and find all the wires etc? is it likely to my cpu cooler making noise or are the case fans likely to be louder?
 
mr_x_plosion said:
I have a fan controller on my Freezer 7 and its quiter at full speed than my 120mm Sharkoon fans.

What gfx card and psu is it? maybe its these making the noise.

Nick
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gpu is an 8800 640mb GPU
and PSU is an OCZ 850W PSU
 
Could it be that he has the older drivers for the GeForce 8 series where there was no fan controll unless you use nTune?
 
Depending on the pitch of the noise, it might be possible to isolate the main source of noise simply by running your PC with the side off, putting your head next to it and moving your head. The old low-tech way sometimes works :)

For better control, I'd buy a fan controller and put all case fans on that. OcUK stock some fan controllers, from cheap ones that just control 3 fans to more expensive ones that control 4 fans and give you a real-time display of the fan speeds, etc. OcUK fan controller page

I'd also consider replacing the original fans in the case. Find out what they are first - are they the standard Antec Tri-Cools? Those aren't bad, but you can buy fans that are both better for cooling and quieter. I have Akasa Ultra Quiet ("Amber") fans in mine, which are good at low speed, but there are better. Yate Loon fans seem to be a surprisingly good buy at the moment - very cheap (I've seen 120mm ones for £4!), very efficient and very quiet. OcUK don't stock them, though. I'd buy them if they did.

I suspect the PSU or graphics card for the main noise source, though.

The pre-fitted coolers on graphics cards can be quite horribly noisy. If that's the case, you could try to enable fan speed control on it, if it has it and it works. That way, it would only be loud when you're gaming, which probably won't be a problem. The other option is to fit a 3rd-party cooler, which would almost certainly void your warrantly.

Is your PSU the GameXStream model from OCZ? That comes out in reviews as being very quiet.
 
Senture, a couple of posts up, has an answer to that question.

I've read that RivaTuner 2.01 and upwards can enable fan speed control on 8800s. If you buy an 8800 for me, I'll test RivaTuner fan speed control and let you know if it works :)

It's possible that new drivers, nTune or RivaTuner will work. It's also possible that none of them will.
 
Darkmage88,

The AC Freezer 7 is making all the noise (2500+ rpm)

Speedfan is your best friend, set the max CPU Fan speed to 75% (lowers to 2000rpm) and keep minimum as 0% (900rpm). Then setup your temps accordingly (aim for 75% on full load)

Your rig will now be wisper quite even under load (No 2900XT to worry about).

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wow it was the cpu thanks :) i've set max cpu speed to 75% a lot quieter. I dont think my fanspeed ever drops though when it is on low load, should it be doing that?

also not sure what you mean about setting up temps, but thank you for the reply. any more advice would be appreciated
 
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