Poll: Does your PC's noise annoy you?

[screw3d]

Mine's not very loud, but it's constant humming is getting on my nerves.

I headed over to silentPCreview.. and dayum those guys ard hardcore! :Q I might try to do what those guys do over there.

It's a PITA to balance cooling/noise, especially when these overclocked suckers pump out so much heat

Edit: Messed up the last choice in the poll.. it should read "In Soviet Russia, YOU annoy the noise

 

[MikeMike]

ive actually realised, that without the noise, its not the same.

currently my computer is fuxd, and the laptop is so quiet, its scary.

MIKE

 

[HardWarrior]

My baby is indeed noisy and can get even noisier based on ambient, but I guess I've gotten used to it over the years.

 

[Gravity]

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
ive actually realised, that without the noise, its not the same.

currently my computer is fuxd, and the laptop is so quiet, its scary.

MIKE

My 3 year old dell is not too quiet. A bios flash forced the cooling fans to come on sooner.

I have my main box so quiet that the drives are now the noisiest.

Time for Barracudas?

 

[WobbleWobble]

Running a Sonata with my 120mm fans on Fan Only, Silent Boost, Zalman Heatpip with a Maxtor FBD and I think my PC is still way to noisy.

 

[Nab]

i got used to my pc's noise.

 

[BlueWeasel]

While my system has never been extremely noisy, it has always had the noticeable "hum" coming from it. Most certainly bearable from my point of view, but recent Panaflow L1A fans have helped.

 

[RussianSensation]

I have Panaflo case fans at 21dB and Zalman CNPS7000 at 20db and I can still hear the damn thing.... it must be either the Northbridge or the power supply...but I never even considered the Zalman cooler to be quiet.

Over my experience no one builds quieter computers than dell because they dont use a lot of fans, and have an exaust "arm" for the cpu fan making it inaudible. Otherwise all the pc's i've ever made, there is always noise, small, medium, large -- it's always there and there is nothing you can do if you have fans. Unless its so loud that it distracts you from playing a videogame, typing, or watching a movie on the computer, I dont think noise is that much of an issue.

 

[idea]

My PSU fans are so noisy. I bought one of those Antec's with dual speed controlled fans, I think that's the culprit.

My CPU fan is a Y-tech adjustable, and I'm running 2x 120mm L1A's at 7 volts. I really wanna swap out this PSU but I don't think noise is enough of a reason to do it, it's so nice and stable...

 

[ski2slow]

I believe my Antec True430 PSU is the loudest in my new setup.

 

[screw3d]

I am using a True430 too. The folks at SilentPCReview suggest that i swap the 80mm fan in there with a Panaflo L1A. I might just do that.

 

[sd]

My new Wave Master setup is a lot less noisey than my last setup.

 

[MegaWorks]

I have the Vantec Tornado and this baby is noisy but I use it at 2800RPM when I'm surfing the net or sleeping, But when I play games this baby is at 4800RPM with 119cfm! thats a hell of a noise

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Maxtor 91531U3 15GB
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Antec PlusView 1000AMG
Cambridge SoundWorks MegaWorks THX 550 5.1

 

[wicktron]

I don't know what the heck you guys consider "noisy," but a noisy PC does not annoy me unless completely and absurdly noisy.

 

[HardWarrior]

Originally posted by: wicktron
I don't know what the heck you guys consider "noisy," but a noisy PC does not annoy me unless completely and absurdly noisy.

I'd have to agree with this. My limit is two TT smarties at 5000rpm + my Delta.

 

[Overkast]

Mine is noisy and I love it... it lets me know it's there.

I guess it's that testosterone love of knowing I've got a "balls-to-the-walls" machine pumpin out some serious power down there. I get off on that

lol

 

[lazybum131]

I have a Thermaltake Silent Boost with a Panaflo 80mm L1A undervolted to ~9V using a Zalman fanmate, two Panaflo 120mm FBK-12G12LH on a fanmate at the lowest setting, 9500np with Zalman Heatpipe, a Samsung Spinpoint hard drive lying on foam and a Truepower 380S PSU with fan swapped with a Panaflo L1A all inside a Sonata lined with melamine sound absorbing foam...

and I can still hear it at night!!! Haven't had the time to figure out which was the source of the noise. It's really faint, during the day I can't hear it.

 

[edmundoab]

my comp is in the living hall,
so it doesnt affect me even if its noisy,

but with 13 fans on... its good that I closed the casing..

 

[SuctionCat]

Mine's not that loud, and I'm making it even quieter soon. I need to be able to run it at full load while I sleep in the same room, so keeping it quiet is important.

I don't mind a bit of noise during the day, but some of the screamers I've seen at lans make me shudder.

 

[Ikonomi]

The loudest things in my case are two Panaflo L1As, and I wish it could be quieter. Maybe I'm becoming a fanatic.

 

[RalfHutter]

I'm one of those SilentPCReview hardcore mofos and both of my systems are extremely quiet. Noisy PC's really bug me.

 

[0roo0roo]

i lookedat your rig, a chip overclocked like mine. no reason to be loud, i use a low rpm zalman fan to cool mine with slk-800, maybe the ystech is louder my chip stays cool enough, slks are good for low rpm. the rest of your case fans should be attached to a case fan controller. i've hooked up a dragon types case to one, all 4 case fans on one knob for ease of use. no real reason for yours to be loud, the dragon type cases have excessive cooling capability which allows you to dial it down..

 

[HardWarrior]

This is a very interesting forum indeed. Of the ones I frequent, specific game-overclocking-water cooling forums, I've never seen this many people so freaked about about noise. I've long since accepted it as something that comes along with having a high-performance machine and I started my career working with the loudest machines there are, mainframes. This isn't to say you guys are wusses or anything, you can of course run your machines anyway you want. But I have to admit, you anti-noise guys are interesting and have opened my eyes to a different aspect of home computers.

 

[tracerbullet]

I was like that too, never cared about the noise. i went off on the OC'ing tangent for a while and the PC got louder and louder. Finally one morning, actually while hung over, I thought "damn this thing is loud". I set out to do a few tricks to it and got the bug. Right now I don't expect to get radical on it, but you never know. So far it's been a new case, some rubber isolators for the fans and such, the move to 120mm's instead of 80's (part of the case design), and I have a thermalright 900 and 92mm panaflo on the way, and also a fanless video card cooler I haven't put on yet. I'm glad I did. On the one hand I didn't care about the noise much, but now that I've gotten the rig quieter, I'm really glad I went that way, and it's gotten to be as fun as OC'ing was, trying to make it quiet yet stay cool.

 

[screw3d]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
i lookedat your rig, a chip overclocked like mine. no reason to be loud, i use a low rpm zalman fan to cool mine with slk-800, maybe the ystech is louder my chip stays cool enough, slks are good for low rpm. the rest of your case fans should be attached to a case fan controller. i've hooked up a dragon types case to one, all 4 case fans on one knob for ease of use. no real reason for yours to be loud, the dragon type cases have excessive cooling capability which allows you to dial it down..

The whoosh noise made by the fans don't annoy me as much as the noise emitted by the vibration of the casing as a result of all the fans spinning (and that loud whiney mofo WD SE :frown: ). That's why I'm ditching my current case to get an SLK3700AMB which is highly regarded by the folks in SPCR

Right now it's not even loud, actually, just that the metallic hum is very annoying. I think I am getting the silent bug those SPCR guys are talking about!

Silent + heavily overclocked > Loud + very heavily overclocked