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| Thread ID: 55936 | 2005-03-23 06:20:00 | How do I make my computer silent? | Esspro (7682) | Press F1 |
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| 337055 | 2005-03-23 06:20:00 | Hi, Does anyone have any tips for making my computer silent. I do a lot of audio production and it seems that my case is emitting a hell of a lot of noise recently which is annoying at night, or when trying to concentrate on audio. Also for recordings it can be picked up quite easily so interferes with the recording signal. The case is a standard ATX... I have looked at several options, and have come up with the following... -get a silent PSU and quiet CPU fan -get a whole new case with included PSU and sound deadening -just deaden the sound in my case... Now bare in mind that often when doing audio production my cpu usage is on the high side so cooling is still an issue... I am happy with my case now (reasonably.. apart from the broken power switch :yuck: which i had to feed out the firewire port), just need to shut it up... or is it a better Idea to invest in a proper $450 case... I have seen quiet psus round for 90-200 and quite cpu fans for $60-100... I have seen a few fanless cpu coolers as well, are these any good? What about at high cpu usage? All help appreciated Thanks |
Esspro (7682) | ||
| 337056 | 2005-03-23 06:37:00 | Have you thought of water cooling? Works in similar way as cooling in the car, except without the antifreeze. Ask at some of your local computer shops, especially the modding ones. They should be able to help out |
Myth (110) | ||
| 337057 | 2005-03-23 06:42:00 | Some spec's would be helpful ;) In the meantime have a look at Silent PC Review (http://www.silentpcreview.com/). | Murray P (44) | ||
| 337058 | 2005-03-23 06:48:00 | Lots of this stuff at: www.overclockers.co.nz Fans, watercooling, sound deadening case things. I wouldn't personally use a fanless PSU cooler. Either quiet fans or watercooling. Seeing your use for the PC you might want to consider the watercooling option. And overclockers do have some fanless PSUs too. I would use a decent tower case as well as if its small, you'll get heat from your other components, so plenty of airflow is good. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 337059 | 2005-03-23 07:04:00 | PCs are quiet. I was never bothered by the noise of a mainframe and a few minis and a 600 lpm printer and the air conditioning in the machine room. I used a terminal half a mile away. ;) Put the PC box on the other side of a wall, and have longer cables. Won't one of those multi-computer keyboard/monitor/mouse controllers(to only one computer) have long enough cables? This might be cheaper than water cooling/new box/etc. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 337060 | 2005-03-23 07:16:00 | Seeing as there is no way to isolate the case at all given what I am using it for, my location and the millions of plugs that go into it, I must actually silence the case . How much is a water cooling system going to set me back? And is this only good for the CPU cooling, or does it just keep the whole case environment cool? Will I need a new case to water cool it? |
Esspro (7682) | ||
| 337061 | 2005-03-23 07:20:00 | what are your spec's? intel or amd? |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 337062 | 2005-03-23 07:51:00 | P4 2.53 512 ram 40 gig seagate 120 gig WD 160 gig Seagate MSI Neo 865 PEII motherboard with onboard LCD chode fan E-mu 1212m Soundcard Nvidia MX440 GFX card (i dont play games that much ... ) standard Intel CPU cooler, and cheap PSU that came with my ATX case |
Esspro (7682) | ||
| 337063 | 2005-03-23 08:23:00 | Unplug it. | ninja (1671) | ||
| 337064 | 2005-03-23 08:45:00 | thanks so much | Esspro (7682) | ||
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