The noise, THE NOISE!

slowrunner

slowrunner

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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?
 
rubber gromits for all fans and acoustic padding inside the case, dont know how good that is for airflow tho :p also make sure your system is dust free as a build up means fans etc have to work harder thus creating more noise and heat

where do you have your pc sat on the desk or floor? a rubber mat underneath it may help eliminate some sound too
 
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.
 
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.
 
arc@css said:
lol I love your style bigjimmy :D

@OP - yeah I'd look in to anti vibration as mentioned above.
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lol thanx you can get rings from a home electronics store which will quite things down a tiny bit TBH i found them pretty useless half my noise come soley from the air movment and maybe the cpu fan if i'm gaming or something.

you need to try isolate the noise disconnect a few case fans then go in the rents room to see if u can hear it,, just find out what is actually making the noise.
 
new psu, new fans, new gfx card cooler.

Vibration grommets only cut vibration noise down. Good for things like hard drives. Most of the noise will be coming from the fans which either need replacing or undervolting.
 
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.
 
Just stop the fans. If they are open you can stick your finger on the centre bit, if they are enclosed you have to stick something in, but again in the centre, not on the fins. But be careful and don't stop them for more than a second or two, sometime you need to give them a slight push to start spinning again.Also don't forget about the fans on MOBO they are often tiny and very noisy all though most are passively cooled these days.

But sounds like your psu. In which case you need to buy a new one.
 
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).
 
My old rig had a generic PSU that sounded pretty bad too. Upgraded to a Corsair from here, barely hear a peep. Now to do something about the gfx card fan...
 
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