Why is everyone so obsessed with silence?

[ubercaffeinated]

What ever floats your boat, ey. I need my silence, so I'll pay the extra amount to get it, and have good cooling too.

 

[ddviper]

Originally posted by: MrControversial

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
I put as many fans with reasonable CFM/dB ratio as I can find. And I put the fastest on my CPU. When I boot up it sounds like a jet taking off. And I'm fine with that. A high performance PC should sound high performance. I want to scare my cat every time I hit the power button.

Welcome to the club. I love noisy rigs just like some people like the sound of choppers. They could make quieter choppers if they wanted to, but the novelty of having one is the manly-ass noise that comes from it.

All I care about is a cool case. Noise is of no concern to me.

thats exactly how i feel, noise is something YOU can get used to, heat is not something your components can get use to

 

[Mik3y]

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
A high performance PC should sound high performance.

psh, not unless you NOS it and get ur cpu turbocharged!

just like this.

vroom vroom

 

[Gamingphreek]

Originally posted by: ddviper

Originally posted by: MrControversial

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
I put as many fans with reasonable CFM/dB ratio as I can find. And I put the fastest on my CPU. When I boot up it sounds like a jet taking off. And I'm fine with that. A high performance PC should sound high performance. I want to scare my cat every time I hit the power button.

Welcome to the club. I love noisy rigs just like some people like the sound of choppers. They could make quieter choppers if they wanted to, but the novelty of having one is the manly-ass noise that comes from it.

All I care about is a cool case. Noise is of no concern to me.

thats exactly how i feel, noise is something YOU can get used to, heat is not something your components can get use to

Well if you are stupid enough to go for pure quiet and not be smart and get quiet components then yes. But most people who are going quiet get high quality low noise comoponents.

A high performance PC should sound high performance.

Your full of crap

-Kevin

 

[HardWarrior]

Here we go with the mindless flaming. :disgust:

 

[teutonicknight]

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
I put as many fans with reasonable CFM/dB ratio as I can find. And I put the fastest on my CPU. When I boot up it sounds like a jet taking off. And I'm fine with that. A high performance PC should sound high performance. I want to scare my cat every time I hit the power button.

I have a Zalman 7000b and 120mm Vantec Stealth fans. It's nice to hear yourself think once in a while.

 

[akira34]

Originally posted by: ddviper

Originally posted by: MrControversial

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
I put as many fans with reasonable CFM/dB ratio as I can find. And I put the fastest on my CPU. When I boot up it sounds like a jet taking off. And I'm fine with that. A high performance PC should sound high performance. I want to scare my cat every time I hit the power button.

Welcome to the club. I love noisy rigs just like some people like the sound of choppers. They could make quieter choppers if they wanted to, but the novelty of having one is the manly-ass noise that comes from it.

All I care about is a cool case. Noise is of no concern to me.

thats exactly how i feel, noise is something YOU can get used to, heat is not something your components can get use to

"getting used to" noise is actually harmful to you... Just like the twits with the ultra loud car stereo's are pretty much deaf now due to playing them too loud.

 

[cyberknight]

Vantec fans aren't quiet. they can be "quieter" but they're definitely not in the same league as better fans.

 

[Wedge1]

Originally posted by: Pauli Besides, simply adding more fans does not mean that you are making the system cooler - there is a point of diminishing returns. If you are willing to spend some time and effort, you can have both a quiet, cool, and powerful system.

A very true statement. There is a point where adding more CFM simply doesn't make the case, or the components, any cooler. It is really easy to find a balance between cool components and quiet computing.

As to the OP's question about "obsession with silence", I think the quest is originally to make the PC more quiet, not silent. So, you might go to silentPCreview and see all the methods these guys use for making it as quiet as possible. If you read the forums, you'll see neat home-made contraptions, highly efficient components, and a lot of subjective advice. Quieting the PC becomes a journey, rather than a destination, because you will have small successes, but you will still want to keep topping yourself. Soon you will realize that it is both a science and an art, believe it or not.

Now, if it sounds like I'm way too into this, that's because I am. I like a computer that forces me to look at the LED in order to see if it is turned on (when the monitor is off, of course).

 

[SunSamurai]

Funny how this guy makes this silly thread and is never heard from again. Never heard from again due to the fact he cant be heard over his computer.


Anyway, its easy to get high preformance out of a PC. Most of us know full well how thats achived. The next, harder, step, is to choose the parts carefully for I silent beast.

 

[ribbon13]

My KV&M are 10ft away from my computer which sits in a closet. I open the doors only when I want to light the room blue from UV or showing someone my rig, but for the most part I enjoy the quiet. I don't need a noisy beast to know I have a powerful dually.

 

[akira34]

Originally posted by: ribbon13
My KV&M are 10ft away from my computer which sits in a closet. I open the doors only when I want to light the room blue from UV or showing someone my rig, but for the most part I enjoy the quiet. I don't need a noisy beast to know I have a powerful dually.

Try making it silent with it right at your knees... That's what I'm doing, or at least trying to. My tower rig (see my sig) is no slouch when it comes to performance either... I run it for weeks on end between either reboots or shutdowns and the temps are [normally] in the low to mid 30's at idle. It really depends on the room temp at the time...

 

[MrControversial]

Originally posted by: Pauli

Originally posted by: MrControversial

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
I put as many fans with reasonable CFM/dB ratio as I can find. And I put the fastest on my CPU. When I boot up it sounds like a jet taking off. And I'm fine with that. A high performance PC should sound high performance. I want to scare my cat every time I hit the power button.

Welcome to the club. I love noisy rigs just like some people like the sound of choppers. They could make quieter choppers if they wanted to, but the novelty of having one is the manly-ass noise that comes from it.

All I care about is a cool case. Noise is of no concern to me.

A quieter computer is a better computer to 99.999% of all PC users (my own estimate). The rest of you are oddballs who are probably very bad company anyway. Besides, simply adding more fans does not mean that you are making the system cooler - there is a point of diminishing returns. If you are willing to spend some time and effort, you can have both a quiet, cool, and powerful system.

Well, my case is always within 2º C of the room temperature so I'm happy. I just have a total of 7 80mm fans in my case. Two front intakes, a side intake, two rear exhausts and two on the heat sink (which is 18k gold-plated for super-conductivity). My CPU NEVER gets above 46C on load. Secondly I have a fan control panel that I can lower the noise with, so it's no big deal.

 

[MrControversial]

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek

Originally posted by: ddviper

Originally posted by: MrControversial

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
I put as many fans with reasonable CFM/dB ratio as I can find. And I put the fastest on my CPU. When I boot up it sounds like a jet taking off. And I'm fine with that. A high performance PC should sound high performance. I want to scare my cat every time I hit the power button.

Welcome to the club. I love noisy rigs just like some people like the sound of choppers. They could make quieter choppers if they wanted to, but the novelty of having one is the manly-ass noise that comes from it.

All I care about is a cool case. Noise is of no concern to me.

thats exactly how i feel, noise is something YOU can get used to, heat is not something your components can get use to

Well if you are stupid enough to go for pure quiet and not be smart and get quiet components then yes. But most people who are going quiet get high quality low noise comoponents.

A high performance PC should sound high performance.

Your full of crap

-Kevin

There's always a trade-off my friend. You have to consider that everyone's case doesn't allow them as much flexibility as yours. My Antec Plusview 1000 only accepts 80mm fans. Low RPM 80mm fans are crap when it comes to cooling.

 

[pinktank]

interesting fetish you have there, I keep my pc on 24/7, and I listne to music and I do sleep,
well damn all that, I prefer silence

 

[Gamingphreek]

Im running Chieftec Dragon case.

I have 4 Panaflo 12L 80mm fans running at 1/3 speed. An OCZ Powerstream PSU. A MSI 5900XT w/VIVO with starforce cooling (garaunteed to be <21dba), and an SLK-947U with a 92mm panaflo 12L running at 1/3 speed. I can BARELY hear my computer, and that is due to my SATA seagate barracuda HDD.

80mm fans are not crap.

-Kevin

 

[Pauli]

Originally posted by: MrControversial

Originally posted by: Pauli

Originally posted by: MrControversial

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
I put as many fans with reasonable CFM/dB ratio as I can find. And I put the fastest on my CPU. When I boot up it sounds like a jet taking off. And I'm fine with that. A high performance PC should sound high performance. I want to scare my cat every time I hit the power button.

Welcome to the club. I love noisy rigs just like some people like the sound of choppers. They could make quieter choppers if they wanted to, but the novelty of having one is the manly-ass noise that comes from it.

All I care about is a cool case. Noise is of no concern to me.

A quieter computer is a better computer to 99.999% of all PC users (my own estimate). The rest of you are oddballs who are probably very bad company anyway. Besides, simply adding more fans does not mean that you are making the system cooler - there is a point of diminishing returns. If you are willing to spend some time and effort, you can have both a quiet, cool, and powerful system.

Well, my case is always within 2º C of the room temperature so I'm happy. I just have a total of 7 80mm fans in my case. Two front intakes, a side intake, two rear exhausts and two on the heat sink (which is 18k gold-plated for super-conductivity). My CPU NEVER gets above 46C on load. Secondly I have a fan control panel that I can lower the noise with, so it's no big deal.

I just did a 2+ hour video encoding session last night on my system and it, too, reached a maximum of 46C (P4 2.8 Northwood running at 3.3Ghz) - and I don't need 7 stinkin' loud fans to achieve that. The only thing in my system that I can hear at all are the 2 hard drives. Only have 3 fans in my system 1) 120mm Globe case exhaust fan inaudible at 1000RPMs, 2) Seasonic PSU 120mm fan inaudible at 600-900RPMs, 3) Nexus 92mm fan on Thermalright XP-90 barely audible at 1500RPMs. My 400GB Seagate HD showed a max of 38C during the encode - cooled only by the air coming in from the intake holes in the front of the case.

 

[Spike]

46c... not bad. Right now I don't go above 40, but I bet my case is a little noisier. I run a 120mm enermax @ 8 volts for intake, 120mm Panaflo M1A @ 8v for exhauset and a YS-Tech 80mm on my Alpha PAL8045 heatsink also @ 8v. Loudest thing by far is the YS-tech, but it is still pretty quiet, especially when I lower it to 7v, though then my load temps pass 42c.

I love the NV 5 on my 6800GT, keeps it fairly cool (52 idle, 62 load running at 420/1100) and is VERY quiet, especially when compared to the dual 40mm stock cooling that came with it.

silence is just a personal preference, though for me it is less so than some. I am willing to tolerate some noise as I don't use this computer in a "public" space in my home.

-spike

 

[thelostjs]

anyone ever heard of a sleep noise.. just one more thing my computer is great for

 

[amol]

in MS Flight Simulator, i'd rather hear the plane take off, not the computer