Need Help To Make My System More Quiet
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Unplug it. Works wonders.
Ok, well you could swap any 80mm fans for 120mm's. Check which of the CPU, power supply and gfx card fans make noise and replace them.
You could fill your case with vegetable oil like Tom's hardware.
You could wear noise cancelling headphones.
I'm out of idea now.
Ok, well you could swap any 80mm fans for 120mm's. Check which of the CPU, power supply and gfx card fans make noise and replace them.
You could fill your case with vegetable oil like Tom's hardware.
You could wear noise cancelling headphones.
I'm out of idea now.
Soldato
as ^^^^ he mentioned..find the most noisy part of your pc...
try and run it passive...try running your fans @7V with a fan bus or by swapping their power cables in the molex...
power supply fans are noisy most of the time so you could swap it with a better one...less noisy with the same CFM output
try and run it passive...try running your fans @7V with a fan bus or by swapping their power cables in the molex...
power supply fans are noisy most of the time so you could swap it with a better one...less noisy with the same CFM output
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Why not look into buying some Acoustic Damping Materials for Noise Reduction
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^^^because it increases heat and needs more fans
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Mrchu_ said:
The user never said he never wanted to cool his system, just keep it quiet
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Get a Zalman passive heatsink for your northbridge. Northbridge fans are very, very noisy
What PSU do you have? Some can be very noisy - Seasonic are the quietest. Antec, Enermax, Tagan, Hiper, etc all make good quiet PSUs too
Get a Zalman VF700Cu for your graphics card as the stock fans on graphics cards can be rather noisy (set it to 5V)
Get a quiet CPU cooler like the Artic Freezer 64. If you have an ASUS motherboard, enable Q-Fan
Get Akasa Ambers for your case fans and mount them with rubber grommits. You probably have more than you need - one slow spinning 120mm fan at the back of the case is more than enough
What PSU do you have? Some can be very noisy - Seasonic are the quietest. Antec, Enermax, Tagan, Hiper, etc all make good quiet PSUs too
Get a Zalman VF700Cu for your graphics card as the stock fans on graphics cards can be rather noisy (set it to 5V)
Get a quiet CPU cooler like the Artic Freezer 64. If you have an ASUS motherboard, enable Q-Fan
Get Akasa Ambers for your case fans and mount them with rubber grommits. You probably have more than you need - one slow spinning 120mm fan at the back of the case is more than enough
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I would never use the acoustipack stuff. In my experiance it didn't do much for noise.
Stick your head in the PC and switch it on, try and work out where the noise is coming from then hit it with a large hammer (the area with the noise *not* your head!).
Silly suggestions aside, just break it down, unplug a few things and stall some fans with a paint brush (or fingers!) until you find the culprit.
Some stock CPU HSF are noisy, chipset fans are noisy, also some stock VGA fans are noisy etc etc.
Optical drives are the most noisy, them maybe a HDD during seek, everything else should be a low *hum*
Silly suggestions aside, just break it down, unplug a few things and stall some fans with a paint brush (or fingers!) until you find the culprit.
Some stock CPU HSF are noisy, chipset fans are noisy, also some stock VGA fans are noisy etc etc.
Optical drives are the most noisy, them maybe a HDD during seek, everything else should be a low *hum*
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hi,
i'd go for acoustic padding, maybe suspend the hard drives or get them a silentdrive a piece.
soft rubber grommets for between disks/ dvd drives and where they screw to the case.
panaflo or nexus 120mm fans.
i'd go for acoustic padding, maybe suspend the hard drives or get them a silentdrive a piece.
soft rubber grommets for between disks/ dvd drives and where they screw to the case.
panaflo or nexus 120mm fans.
As for the suspension of hard drives, to test out whether you need to, have the pc on and hold the hard drive in your hand, see if it makes any diffrence. If it does then- suspend them 
if it doesnt, well then theres no point 
G
p.s: i had a acoustic pack (akasa) in my wavemaster, done nothing apart from a temp rise, and it needs a lot of elbow grease if you decide to take it off again.
if it doesnt, well then theres no point G
p.s: i had a acoustic pack (akasa) in my wavemaster, done nothing apart from a temp rise, and it needs a lot of elbow grease if you decide to take it off again.
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^^LOL
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I personally think with hard drives its better to flog em and buy samsung spinpoints from ocuk.As these are sooo quiet and quick.
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That method may not be a joke to you,I m laughing at big wayne.....is that alright
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I haven't used the acustipack stuff but ive used akasa paxmate and it does make a slight difference, it also cuts down the DVD writing noise quite a bit. I didn't notice any temp rises but then again i have a big case with 2 x 120mm fans and an arctic VGA silencer so hot air doesn't hang around for too long in my case . The acoustic stuff looks even better, but it only cuts out the high frequency sounds, it muffles the mid range a bit though. vantec fan gaskets are good for cutting out fan vibrations, use a quality fan as well like an Akasa amber and you wont get much vibration. I use a silentmaxx enclosure for my hdd, they work, look great, easy to install, reusable but it would be cheaper to suspend the hdd in the optical cage using sewing elastic as a lot of people have done. If your pc is on your desk make sure your pc case feet are soft, if there rock hard like my Lian Li's you can buy soft feet made by acustifan.
Try these, they look even better than the fan gaskets.
Mark
. The acoustic stuff looks even better, but it only cuts out the high frequency sounds, it muffles the mid range a bit though. vantec fan gaskets are good for cutting out fan vibrations, use a quality fan as well like an Akasa amber and you wont get much vibration. I use a silentmaxx enclosure for my hdd, they work, look great, easy to install, reusable but it would be cheaper to suspend the hdd in the optical cage using sewing elastic as a lot of people have done. If your pc is on your desk make sure your pc case feet are soft, if there rock hard like my Lian Li's you can buy soft feet made by acustifan.
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Personally I find that acoustic matting works well on cheap cases, with side walls like a toaster, as it stops them from 'singing along' with the case. On a more expensive case like the wavemaster it's gonna make little difference.
Fan speeds controller may be the way to go, knocking fan speed back to about 75% makes little difference to cooling but makes them run a lot quieter.
GFX card fans are often very loud. The smaller the fan, the faster it spins, the louder it is
Fan speeds controller may be the way to go, knocking fan speed back to about 75% makes little difference to cooling but makes them run a lot quieter.
GFX card fans are often very loud. The smaller the fan, the faster it spins, the louder it is
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Passive watercooling, then throw all your fans away?
Really depends on how much noise you want to reduce and how much money you want to spend to get there.
Really depends on how much noise you want to reduce and how much money you want to spend to get there.
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good to hear mark a that you dont see a temp raise with sound dampening.A fairly commited cooling solution you got there.Do you run the fans at 7 volts?