Silence is not always golden!

P_A_N_I_C · 30 Jun 2006 at 11:41

after trying to silence my PC for a long time, starting off with a case, 120mm fans with rubber mounts, then a Big Typhoon cooler, then a zalman gfx card cooler and finally a Lian Li EX-23B HDD bay - which totally silenced my Raptor (this used to get very loud in the early hours of the morning when virus scanning etc).

so finally silence bliss....?

well yes, but now i can wake up in the morning switch my PC on.... but actually turn it off. now it's pretty much silent and cant hear it running

Turned off the PC 3 times in the past week.

heh never thought i would have a whine about that :rolleyes:

roadie · 30 Jun 2006 at 12:24

Heh, that's pretty good. I have spent a lot of time (and money) trying to silence my computer, and whilst it's not perfectly silent it is no longer noticable when surfing the web or playing games. I love it

senorstealth · 30 Jun 2006 at 14:45

Wish i could whine about that, mines fairly quiet but not to that extent

TheCrow · 30 Jun 2006 at 16:49

can no one else heard the eletrical whinne of computers/tvs/dvd player etc? It dont really bother me but i can always tell if sumthing is on or not, even if its on standby?

Did u find the rubber mounts for the fans worked or is it the same without?

Unromantic__Me · 30 Jun 2006 at 16:53

I can always hear the whine too...to the point I have to turn everything off from the socket anyway to sleep, and when im up I usually have music on to drown anything else out...the only reason I want mine more quiet is for when im recording audio

Jokester · 30 Jun 2006 at 16:53

I got to the point that the noisest thing in my PC was my FSP PSU, swapped the fan out for a Nexus, bliss. Until it tripped out after 5mins. Not detered swapped it out for a Papst fan, great works fine, until it would trip randomly during gaming.

So ended up with the stock fan.

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Need a watercooled SLI PSU.

Jokester

tom_e · 30 Jun 2006 at 16:54

TheCrow said:
can no one else heard the eletrical whinne of computers/tvs/dvd player etc? It dont really bother me but i can always tell if sumthing is on or not, even if its on standby?

Did u find the rubber mounts for the fans worked or is it the same without?

Yep i can hear that, dont think anyone else in the house can though

markysparky · 30 Jun 2006 at 17:38

My pc's very quiet apart from my dvd/cd writer, anytime i put a cd/dvd in the drive it whirrs like a jet engine

noxidjkram@hotm · 30 Jun 2006 at 18:17

Mines as good as completely silent - the only audible noise is when i use something in the DVD-rw.

Passive watercooling rocks!

M

Raikiri · 30 Jun 2006 at 21:50

Jokester said:
I got to the point that the noisest thing in my PC was my FSP PSU, swapped the fan out for a Nexus, bliss. Until it tripped out after 5mins. Not detered swapped it out for a Papst fan, great works fine, until it would trip randomly during gaming.

So ended up with the stock fan. .

Need a watercooled SLI PSU.

Jokester

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