The noise, THE NOISE!

slowrunner · 18 Jan 2010 at 10:29

Getting sick of the constant complaints about my rig keeping the rents awake.
The psu's louder than the acf7p, and I consider that as loud at anything over 1000rpm, which is annoying when it idles at 980.

So, short of bolting it to the wall outside the house and having to drill big holes in the wall for the cables, anyone got any silencing ideas?

slowrunner · 18 Jan 2010 at 10:38

Case fans I cant hear untill I put my head right next to them, the case itself is sat on 2 sheets of carpet underlay (thick stuff), on a wooden plinth an inch above the floor.

The only audible noise from it is the psu, the cpu fan, and maybe the spinning of the hard drives vibrating through the case.

slowrunner · 18 Jan 2010 at 10:44

That's what I've been thinking, but it'd help if psu's had proper details of how much noise they make, rather than just saying they're quiet or silent when in fact they sound like a 1400w hoover.

slowrunner · 18 Jan 2010 at 14:50

Just tried running it with no case fans, no hard drives, the noise is the same!

Graphics card is a passive HD3450, because even with the fan going as slow as I could get it, the HD4670 was horrendously loud.

slowrunner · 18 Jan 2010 at 17:50

Just re-rigged the bungee cords in my eclipse clone which has taken care of pretty much all the noise from the hard drives (can only just hear the heads moving occasionally now), but this psu is still belting it out.

So, reccommendations for a new psu please, as quiet as possible (fanless?), modular, and cheap as possible (this is coming out of my 24" screen budget).

slowrunner · 18 Jan 2010 at 20:41

Coolermaster extreme power 460w, just under 2 years old.

slowrunner · 19 Jan 2010 at 08:08

Grimley said:
This. Normally recommend Corsair but the cheapest Modular model is another 50 notes.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-026-OC&tool=3

Only 2xSATA power? I have four drives.

slowrunner · 19 Jan 2010 at 10:29

slowrunner said:
Case fans I cant hear untill I put my head right next to them, The only audible noise from it is the psu, the cpu fan, and maybe the spinning of the hard drives vibrating through the case.

Just tried running it with no case fans, no hard drives, the noise is the same!

SpAceD said:
SpeedFan to regulate the RPM of fans when cooling is not 100% essential?

xe-cute said:
Have you not got BIOS options with temp gauges to auto slow the fans down when not needed at full speed for cooling?

Do people not read posts fully?

slowrunner · 19 Jan 2010 at 13:20

Anyone got experience with one of these, http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-167-CM&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1103?

slowrunner · 19 Jan 2010 at 16:34

I'm not comfortable with the idea of chopping parts about in a PSU, especially when it could put everything in the rig at risk of going pop.