Making my pc quieter

1337z0r · 25 Feb 2007 at 04:09

Hi,

I need to make my PC quieter as its becoming annoying of how loud it is. The spec is

E6300 3.2Ghz 59C Full Load
Gigabyte DQ6
HIS ICEQ3 ATI X1950XT, Has an arctic cooler type cooler.
Two samsung spinpoints 250GB
Crossair 620W PSU

I think its the fans which come with my case which make the racket. I bought a Akasa Amber 120mm to see if it made a diffrence and it didnt. I need something very quiet yet pushes a fair ammount of air. I dont really have enough cash to get a Tuniq ect so the Ac7 should be ok might fiddle with the settings its at full whack atm.

Thanks.

hp7909 · 25 Feb 2007 at 05:56

You could try these

Muzzz · 25 Feb 2007 at 12:43

I found the only way to reduce temps & make it quieter was to replace the ACFreezer Pro 7 with a tuniq tower. (spend money)

Also got some http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-005-SY&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=4 with those mounting things.
On my Asus I was able to clock to 3.1ghz and switch on the quiet setting in the bios.

Noisy thing now is the HD's.

slap ed · 26 Feb 2007 at 10:37

these are good very quiet fans http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-000-NC

FoxEye · 28 Feb 2007 at 12:48

slap ed said:
these are good very quiet fans http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-000-NC

Only 5 to 8 dB? That's a hell of a claim! I thought 11dB was good (have some SilenX fans rated at that).

Perfect_Chaos · 28 Feb 2007 at 12:56

That would make them better than yate loons i would assume at 8 decibels and 35cfm?

i seriously doubt they are that quiet?

photoshop · 28 Feb 2007 at 13:32

you could get those fans and they wount improve your situation.

Even if they only produce 8dB's of noise, your HDD's will be producing atleast 21dB which would eliminate any gain in noise reduction.

Target the HDD's first. I would suggest you use rubber screws to fix them to the case or even an enclosure.

I dont know how silent those arctic coolers are but i would use one of those zalmans with fan control which you can crank up when gaming etc and turn it to low setting when not doing gpu intensive stuff.

Use rubbers grommits/screws to fix all fans and hdd's. this will eliminate the rattling noise produced by vibrations

tinners · 28 Feb 2007 at 22:31

I changed the 2 120mm case fans in my Lian Li for the Noctua's and it made a nice difference. My old Arctic Freezer 64 was also really noisy compared with the Noctua NH12 Im using now.

I also used the Hitachi drive tool to enable Acoustic Management on my drives which quietens them a fair bit.

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm