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I want my PC as quite as posible

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ghidu

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I have an old P4 2.4G in my bedroom that my wife uses for internet and her student papers.
Can you give any advice how can I lower the noise this PC makes? I've allready bought the Zalman ZM80D for my video card because the little fan began to drive me nuts.
Any idea would be great. Thanks
 
clean up all the wires on the inside for maximum airflow and then you can turn your fan speed down to help. Throw a towel over it also maybe?
 
Use a Zalman 7000 series HSF for your CPU and set speed to lowest. Replace your case fans with quieter fans and/or use fan speed controller on all case fans. Get a quieter PSU with fan speed control. Use round cables to improve air flow. Remove discs from your optical drives if you are not using them.
 
Significant sources of noise in your PC:

1) PSU.

2) Northbridge fan (if your board has one).

3) CPU fan.

4) Case fans.

5) Optical drives, hard disks.

To fix them:

1) get a quiet PSU, like a Seasonic Super Tornado.

2) slow down your NB fan (fan controller, speedfan, or solder in a resistor). They usually spin at some insane speed like 6000rpm or more, very noisy.

3) get a quiet CPU fan like a Zalman CNPS7000.

4) get Panaflo L1A's for case fans. Mount them with rubber washers to dampen vibration.

5) get quieter optical drives and hard disks.

HTH.
 
OK, that's great guys.
I'm going to clean everything inside, get a fan controller and change the PSU fan with a silent one and some rounded IDE cables.
Is it ok if I connect the CPU fan to the controller?
 
Is it ok if I connect the CPU fan to the controller?
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Yes. Most cpu warnings should be controlled by temp i think. If you get beeping warnings when the CPU fan connector is not used, then you either need to disable it in the bios or use a controller that connets to the mobo fan connector (such as a $4 fanmate)
 
seagates are pretty quiet, my 200 gig isnt too terribly loud, has a high pitch sound to it but is no where near my old maxtors or WD's when they wind up.

good case is a must, quiet 120mm fans is a must and depending on the area its stored in, wood floors and little furniture around it, sometimes can emphasize the sound. just make sure its got good airflow and use larger slower fans which move more air.
 
Originally posted by: ghidu
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Can you recommend me a silent HD?
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Samsung Spinpoint HDs with the Nidec motor. Lots of HD produce noise because of spindle whine, and the Nidec motors are the ones with the least.

HTH.
 
Originally posted by: Ausm

Fans make 10X the noise a Hard drive would as long as you are not running 15,000 RPM SCSI's 😉

Ausm
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I have to agree here. My 80mm case fans when running at full speed completely drown out even my Raptors.
 
I have allready connected my fans to a fan controller and the only thing I can hear very loud is the HD spinning.
Thanks again for your quick responses

EDIT: Is there an utility to lower the level of noise a WD makes? I remember I saw something similar for a Samsung HD.
 
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