The never ending quest for silence!...

Monkeyspaz5000 · 2 Jun 2012 at 14:09

It never stops!!

I've got a fractal R3 case with a I5 2500k and a GTX670 - both being cooled by seperate Antec Kuhler 620's.

My rig is pretty much silent, but now all I can hear is the faint buzz of the kuhler pumps!

Do I admit defeat? lol.

Or just wrap them in foam??! - although they might get a bit toasty. Or - I might just be being a little anal.

Jay794 · 2 Jun 2012 at 14:12

The only truely silent PC is one that is switched off lol

Is the noise of the pump really that loud? or are you a perfectionist?

Monkeyspaz5000 · 2 Jun 2012 at 14:14

It's not "loud" - the fridge that I can hear to the right of me in the kitchen is making more noise.

Maybe I should just accept that my PC is super quiet and be done with it. lol

BodgeITandRun · 2 Jun 2012 at 14:23

It sounds like your system is pretty quiet to me mate. I can understand the quest for it and appreciate the effort you put in though. Maybe just wear headphones at your PC even when just surfing the web.

Domi · 3 Jun 2012 at 11:51

100% silent is possible but unfortunately it becomes very difficult past a certain point.
In particular a 670 is going to be difficult.

My latest build currently still burn testing is 100% passive
Antec 900 all fans removed and drive bays.
Passive psu an older thermal take unit I've been using for at least 5 years.
I 2400 an nofancp95 cooler a fantastic bit of kit.
Graphics card is currently a 5850 with an accelero s1 plus but this simply a cheap experiment as I already had the card. I intend to upgrade to a 7850 or if I can get temps good enough I may be brave enough to try a 7870.

Even with this being a 100% passive I still intend to fit at least one fan on a fan controller set to kick in if temps start to get out of hand.

However the simple fact is this is absolutely working 100% passive gaming rig

At 1080 an unclocked 2400 and 5850 still give very decent performance in almost everything.

Nanoman · 4 Jun 2012 at 10:08

I've got two fans in my system running at 900RPM, CPU is passive. Even though my rig is pretty much silent I can now hear other noises more clearly. Now the problem is some high pitched whine which looks to be from a power adapter under my desk. It's a non stop battle!