Here is my PC setup that I got from overclockers ~4-5 years ago.
My PC is fairly quiet when I start it up, but then when I do something like watch youtube or run a VM or play a game the fans quickly get noisy.
I used to think it was the graphics card. I even purchased a new beefier graphics card off a friend: so I now have a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 with 4GB memory.
But that did not have an effect on my fans. So I realised it must be the CPU causing the fan speed to ramp up.
But just watching youtube or simple things can cause it to get really noisy (it has always been like this - not a new thing). I am just tired of the noise. I did play around in the BIOS to change the fan speed profile - I set the PWM graph to as low as it would go until a certain temp and then it ramps up - I have played with a few setups - but always the same general outcome.
I am guessing my CPU just gets hot.
Is there any advice what to do here?
I am looking at getting more RAM - but I can't see that being the issue
EDIT: Just had a thought - would "under-clocking" the CPU help?! - I am that desperate!
- "Titan Envy M DC" Intel Core i7 4790K @ 4.4GHz Overclocked Nvidia GeForce Gaming PC
- MSI GeForce GTX 760 OC Gaming Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
- Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD
- Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW)
- Kingston HyperX 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Red (HX24C11BRK2/8-OC)
- Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614)
My PC is fairly quiet when I start it up, but then when I do something like watch youtube or run a VM or play a game the fans quickly get noisy.
I used to think it was the graphics card. I even purchased a new beefier graphics card off a friend: so I now have a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 with 4GB memory.
But that did not have an effect on my fans. So I realised it must be the CPU causing the fan speed to ramp up.
But just watching youtube or simple things can cause it to get really noisy (it has always been like this - not a new thing). I am just tired of the noise. I did play around in the BIOS to change the fan speed profile - I set the PWM graph to as low as it would go until a certain temp and then it ramps up - I have played with a few setups - but always the same general outcome.
I am guessing my CPU just gets hot.
Is there any advice what to do here?
I am looking at getting more RAM - but I can't see that being the issue
EDIT: Just had a thought - would "under-clocking" the CPU help?! - I am that desperate!