silent pc project

So your now discrediting you own review site. well done. No it's not a perfect case but its £60 cheaper than the akasa. the sound deadening will lessen any noise, not remove it. you can replace the fans with noctua and still be cheaper than the akasa. Heat is not a problem he not looking for a high end overclocking case.
with such a tight budget and wanting silent it would be mad to go for a case like the akasa, even though it is a brilliant case.

Trouble is ocuk don't do a huge range of budget cases.
I would pick what I have now a Sharkoon Rebel 12 Economy Edition Black £56
+ 3 800rpm noctua. which is basically what I have know.

Or the antec 300 although you would need to change the fans as the tri-fans aren't particularly quite.

or
Silverstone Kublai
 
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EsaT said:
That's crossfire of two GPUs and so extremely hot, power hungry noise source.
With absolutely i***tical 80W "idling".
So last thing I would want for quiet PC.
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That's the decision of the OP, it's ultimately PERFORMACE vs QUIETNESS/ECO. If he didn't need that much bhp then he could use a 4850 or something and save money.
 
I had the choice between the nzxt hush and the p182 and ended up getting a p182. However at that time the p182 was £80 so was less than £20 more than the hush. The panels are really thick so you do not need any foam to dampen noise.

However in its stock configuration it is not completely silent. I ended up replacing all the fans and using a fan controller to run them at ~600rpm when I sleep and I cannot hear it over the ambience noise level.
 
I have an NZXT Hush case, quite like it. Its not a silent case and it keeps everything inside very hot. The original fans are silent, cant hear them at all, but they are useless at moving any amount of air. I replaced the rear one with a Noctua fan, much better and very quiet. I do wish it had a facility to quieten the hard driver though.
 
If you want silent, then you can't have fans.

Innovatek make the best passive radiators on the market, they're about £120 each and you'll need 2. On the first one, you put the CPU and chipset loop, and the two graphics cards go on the other one.

You'll need 2 pumps - I would suggest Laing DDC's - 10W should be plenty, and get the XSPC reservoir tops to fill the loops easily.

Get some HDD silencers and use Notebook optical drives and you'll end up with near-silence, but it won't be cheap.
 
Took the words right out of my mouth WJA96, but I don't think the OP ment to say silent (most people just need very quiet or below ambient) and with the hardware that's being banded around in this thread, passive silent cooling will get very large and expensive.

Looks like a build with a quality case with 7v fans to me.
Have to agree with tony above. A E8400/P5Q-E looks like a much better bang-for-buck option.
 
GolfBryan said:
I have an NZXT Hush case, quite like it. Its not a silent case and it keeps everything inside very hot.
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If you can get your hands to Dremel or something similar (angle grinder will do well) remove hole plate of rear exhaust and use wire grill instead if necessary.
And very probably you'll hit to similar airflow blocker also in front intake so do same for that.
Won't make it quieter but at least it will be less hot after that.


NZXT Whisper is huge step to right direction and has couple light years more sound design with only smaller weaknesses... of course it also costs lot more than basic blinged junk.

AcidHell2 said:
So your now discrediting you own review site. well done.
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Different persons were behind those reviews. One blinded by bling and another who looks further than that.
 
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