Silent PC case and PSU?

Silence is all down to having the right fans and a good PSU. My setup is almost silent now after a lot of tweaking over the years.

I currently have no case fans as the temps are great. My hard drive is a Samsung, suspended in a CDRom bay with sewing elastic and the Fan on my Thermalright Heatsink is a Noctua and that can't be heard!

My PSU is an Enermax Liberty Modular. Superbly quiet!! Quieter than a Corsair 520w Modular i used to own.

System is very very quiet indeed.

Case is a bog standard Colermaster 330 i think. I am thinking of changing the case though. Not because of any issues but just fancy a change!

This is the case i like as it looks to have good cooling and great cable management:

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Thank you all for your advice i think im going to have to take some time out to get up 2 speed with all the latest components and try to keep the cost down as much as poss.

Situation has changed and now can only spend abt £400 max so il have 2 see what i can get 4 my money
 
You can't make Rolls-Royce out of Lada by sticking signs to it and neither can you make quiet case out of leaky, noisy one.
Only way for it to not be noisy is putting only silent components into it.

Your confusing a very quiet pc with a silent pc.
A SILENT psu has only silent components in it - therefore we agree that almost any case can be used.

Silence is all down to having the right fans and a good PSU. My setup is almost silent now after a lot of tweaking over the years.

System is very very quiet indeed.

Again silent is not the same as very very quiet - They are VERY different and imho V V quite is a much better option, to 99% of pc users.

A pc thats very very quiet in a daytime urban enviroment will be noisey at night in a rural location. The ambient noise level and noise signiture is different in every ones room. Foe some a HHD bungee and a 7v fan mod is enought to reduce a pc below the road noise outside. For other it's no way near enough.

But a silent pc is always silent.

Sunnyg - a redued budget my help you - very easy to over spec a pc, unless your a hardcore gamer with a 30"+ screen that is :)
 
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Well, at night, i can't hear my PC at all!! It is that good. It is sitting under the desk and is 'silent' to me and i am very fussy about noise!
 
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Excerllent! I've had that psu, and I really like it (was the only fan in my previous build)
and can easily beleive its below ambient when under a desk.

Not tried a Noctua personally and due to my pc being wall mounted I've nothing to block line of sight / noise path.

Would always recomment a quiet pc has at least one fan - fanless is a joy and a curse but the only way to a 0dB pc is no moving parts.
 
If you get cheaper fans and 7v mod them that will save a lot, not sure which ones are good for that. You could also get a cheaper cpu and a cheaper gfx card, there's a fair few fanless ones about now.


Nesteq Semi-Fanless ASM PSU, 620W £96.99
120mm Noctua NF-S12 800 RPM Quiet Case Fan x6 £89.63
Scythe "Quiet Drive" £26.68
Sharkoon Rebel 12 Economy Edition Black case £56.34
Sharkoon Rebel 12 Fan Frame x3 £8.59
4GB (2x2GB) Corsair TwinX DDR2 £58.95 £67.79
Spinpoint F1 320GB, £38.34
1GB Gigabyte HD (fanless) 4850,£143.69
Thermalright Ultra 120 eXtreme 120mm Heat Sink £42.54
Intel Core2 Duo E7400 £100.38
Biostar TP45 HP, iP45 £91.97

Total £763

for example a e500 would save you £37
MSI NVIDIA Fanless 9500GT 512MB DDR2 PCI-E HDMI would save you £73

So that's a £100 without even getting cheaper fans and modding them.
 
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If you get cheaper fans and 7v mod them that will save a lot, not sure which ones are good for that. You could also get a cheaper cpu and a cheaper gfx card, there's a fair few fanless ones about now.


Nesteq Semi-Fanless ASM PSU, 620W £96.99
120mm Noctua NF-S12 800 RPM Quiet Case Fan x6 £89.63
Scythe "Quiet Drive" £26.68
Sharkoon Rebel 12 Economy Edition Black case £56.34
Sharkoon Rebel 12 Fan Frame x3 £8.59
4GB (2x2GB) Corsair TwinX DDR2 £58.95 £67.79
Spinpoint F1 320GB, £38.34
1GB Gigabyte HD (fanless) 4850,£143.69
Thermalright Ultra 120 eXtreme 120mm Heat Sink £42.54
Intel Core2 Duo E7400 £100.38
Biostar TP45 HP, iP45 £91.97

Total £763

for example a e500 would save you £37
MSI NVIDIA Fanless 9500GT 512MB DDR2 PCI-E HDMI would save you £73

So that's a £100 without even getting cheaper fans and modding them.

An Enermax Liberty PSU is 'Silent' as far as i am concerned. I have tried quite a few over the years as i like a 'Silen' rig. Enermax is top of the pile for me.

No need for a 'Quiet Drive'. Just get a Samsung F1, suspend it in a CDrom bay. You won't hear it.

Noctua fans are expensive but they are worth every penny. Super silent. You only need 2 at the most. I don't have any case fans running and my temps are very low. All depends on Ambient temps but even then, 2 fans is all you need. One sucking air in at the front, the other blowing it out the back.
 
Noctua fans are expensive but they are worth every penny. Super silent. You only need 2 at the most. I don't have any case fans running and my temps are very low. All depends on Ambient temps but even then, 2 fans is all you need. One sucking air in at the front, the other blowing it out the back.

I agree noctua are well worth it. All depends if you want to overclock and still have brilliant cooling in which case extra fans help.
 
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