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Best option to reduce noise of my computer

Start simple. Where is the PC? Can you put it on the floor? If not, can you put it on a rubber cushioning pad or "sample size" piece of carpeting? You might be surprised at how much noise is harmonics from the desk or table it's sitting on. For higher pitch noises, you can isolate the PSU from the case with a silicon gasket that will muffle a considerable amount of such sound.

Does the case fan have a thermal control so it spins slower except when the case interior gets too hot? You can replace the existing case fan with another that has such a control, or locate an inline controller you can put between the power source and the fan. Heat Sink Fans are typically the noisiest single item in recently produced PC's. Changing out the small, high speed fan on the hsf for a larger, slower running fan and an adapter, can perhaps cool better, with much less noise, and/or with a lower pitched sound that is more easily accepted by the human aural perception system.


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Yup, it's sitting on top of a desk. There really isn't room to comfortably move it to the ground in my current set-up. I have hard-wood floors anyway. Is there a rubber cushioning pad specifically designed for this purpose?
 
It's always fans.
I have the exact same case, and it's quiet with 80mm Vantec Stealth cases fans (1 in front, 1 in rear) and stock AMD HSF.

VERY livable, and i sleep in the same room with it on, never bugs me.
 
Originally posted by: GizmoFreak
Yup, it's sitting on top of a desk. There really isn't room to comfortably move it to the ground in my current set-up. I have hard-wood floors anyway. Is there a rubber cushioning pad specifically designed for this purpose?
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I haven't seen the rubber pads lately, but a few are bound to be around "somewhere". They were used originally under manual typewriters on metal stands, because those could be very loud. Some electric typewriters were also noisy when that type got started. Later, after personal computers started becoming popular, the first printers were IMPACT types. Both daisy wheels and dot-matrix types were extremely noisy without some kind of special stand, or noise absorbing pad.

But if there is no office supply with a pad stuck away in a cubby hole, plain floor carpeting is supposed to be good, cut to the size of the PC, or perhaps even four smaller pieces, one under each of the PC's feet.



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