+Warwagon MVC Posted October 26, 2020 MVC Share Posted October 26, 2020 Back in 2014 I purchased a bare bone Brix i7 4770R system as my couch computer. It's a cute looking thing. It runs all 4 of my computers monitors like a champ. When it's idle and not doing very much work he's very quiet, you can't even tell he's turned on. But when he is doing CPU intensive tasks, he's LOUD AS F**CK! I've been looking for something quieter. Last year at the "It's $5" store where on Saturday and Sunday's everything you find is $5, I found 2 brand new (or maybe returned) Core i5 7600 CPU's. Then I bought a motherboard for it and slapped 32GB of DDR ram in it, and then put my GTX 770 into it. Yes I know the card is old but I don't game THAT heavy and when I do it's only 1080p. Last week I did an encoding test between my leaf blower (Brix) and this other computer I built. The i5 7600 won the encoding test by a full 1.5 mins (Was not being helped by the GPU). So I thought, it can be my new couch computer. So I went and purchased a Scythe Mugen 5 Rev.B CPU Air Cooler, I wanted this this to be a quiet as humanly possible. I also purchased a Samsung (MZ-V7S1T0B/AM) 970 EVO Plus SSD 1TB. (As Neobond mentioned on Facebook, it may have been wise to wait til black Friday .. oops) Got windows installed and did a prime95 load test to see how quiet I made the PC. SUCCESS!! In comparison this is what my Brix Pro sounds like running the exact same test. Nick H. 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted October 26, 2020 Moderator Share Posted October 26, 2020 I had larger coolers than that... That's not LARGE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted October 26, 2020 Author MVC Share Posted October 26, 2020 20 minutes ago, Mindovermaster said: I had larger coolers than that... That's not LARGE. So have I LOL ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted October 27, 2020 Author MVC Share Posted October 27, 2020 Changed title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim K Global Moderator Posted October 27, 2020 Global Moderator Share Posted October 27, 2020 Scythe does make some really nice coolers and quiet fans. Have one of their shuriken's in my HTPC for the past 6 years or so ... whisper quiet. Not really sure if the title change...your cooler is what, over 150mm tall with a 120mm fan ... it's a large cooler ... but some people....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman25 Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 Hmmm i wouldn't mind that cooler for my current Intel I7, but for a first time cooler installer, might be outta my leaque if i do buy one of those in the future lol, may look into a Hyper 212 Black Edition lol possibly for my build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick H. Supervisor Posted October 27, 2020 Supervisor Share Posted October 27, 2020 Wow, that's awesome! I started leaning towards my monitor to try and make out a sound. Obviously that makes no sense since the sound doesn't come from my monitor...and I'm wearing earphones, but you get my point. I couldn't hear a thing! Very nice upgrade! Brandon H 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted October 27, 2020 Author MVC Share Posted October 27, 2020 30 minutes ago, bikeman25 said: Hmmm i wouldn't mind that cooler for my current Intel I7, but for a first time cooler installer, might be outta my leaque if i do buy one of those in the future lol, may look into a Hyper 212 Black Edition lol possibly for my build. it's super simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted October 27, 2020 Author MVC Share Posted October 27, 2020 6 hours ago, Jim K said: Scythe does make some really nice coolers and quiet fans. Have one of their shuriken's in my HTPC for the past 6 years or so ... whisper quiet. Not really sure if the title change...your cooler is what, over 150mm tall with a 120mm fan ... it's a large cooler ... but some people....... (W)130 x (H)154.5 x (D)110mm .. and 120mm fan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted October 27, 2020 Author MVC Share Posted October 27, 2020 I was only getting 1,700 per second on my 970 EVO pro. I looked at the Samsung Magician software and it was I was getting Pcie 2 x 4. Looked in the bios and buried under "miscellaneous" of all places I found Link speed. Changed it from Gen 2 to Gen 3 and ..BAM!! Full speed! goretsky 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted November 25, 2020 Author MVC Share Posted November 25, 2020 Today I got my first electric bill since bringing this computer online. On Average it added about $3-$4 per month to my bill, compared to previous Novembers. It was $100, Vs $96 - $97. This thing is still sooooooooooooooooooooooooo quiet. I LOVE it. I never hear it. Such a change from the leaf blower I had before. Brandon H and goretsky 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted November 25, 2020 Moderator Share Posted November 25, 2020 2 hours ago, warwagon said: This thing is still sooooooooooooooooooooooooo quiet. I LOVE it. I never hear it. Such a change from the leaf blower I had before. Ssshh quiet, you might wake it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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