crazzy88ss Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 As the title says, if you can pick one or two PC components to spend the extra on to reduce noise, what would you pick? CPU fan? CPU water cooling? Case fans? PSU? etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mockingbird Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 Obviously, the fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted March 21, 2020 Moderator Share Posted March 21, 2020 If you have reduction panels, on the sides, it quiets alot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazzy88ss Posted March 21, 2020 Author Share Posted March 21, 2020 4 hours ago, Mockingbird said: Obviously, the fans. ...yea, but which ones would benefit the most from "quiet" versions? CPU fan? PSU? Exhaust? Intake? There's lots of fans everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Montage Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 I have an AIO closed loop water-cooling setup for the CPU heatsink (so consider that 1) And then throughout the case and on the radiator for the above, have replaced all fans with Noctua ones (so consider that 2) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceelf Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 7 hours ago, crazzy88ss said: As the title says, if you can pick one or two PC components to spend the extra on to reduce noise, what would you pick? CPU fan? CPU water cooling? Case fans? PSU? etc. A case with noise reduction paneling and the CPU HSF. I'd do case fans as well. Some PSUs are noisy, but good ones usually aren't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted March 22, 2020 Moderator Share Posted March 22, 2020 2 hours ago, LostCat said: A case with noise reduction paneling and the CPU HSF. I'd do case fans as well. Some PSUs are noisy, but good ones usually aren't. Well, anything can be rackity in your case. But yes, fans are the most vernable. Get good fans, and your ears will thank them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceelf Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 34 minutes ago, Mindovermaster said: Well, anything can be rackity in your case. But yes, fans are the most vernable. Get good fans, and your ears will thank them. yeh I like the Ryzen included CPU HSFs so for me it's just the case and Sickleflows Mindovermaster 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReAnimation Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 (edited) As the others say, invest in good fans. Depending your PSU, most of them don't run the fan until the PSU reaches a certain load, this means that the majority of noise will come from case fans, CPU fan(s) or fans on your graphics card. If you want a really quiet system, probably the best fans to get are from Noctua, since they perform really well and run quiet. They are not cheap however and lots of people don't really like thier colour scheme (brown and biege). https://noctua.at/en/products/fan My PC's CPU heatsink uses a pair of the Noctua NF-A12x25-pwm fans, and I can't hear them run at all. If you have traditional hard disk drives in your PC, they can be responsible for some noise too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazzy88ss Posted March 22, 2020 Author Share Posted March 22, 2020 1 hour ago, ReAnimation said: As the others say, invest in good fans. Depending your PSU, most of them don't run the fan until the PSU reaches a certain load, this means that the majority of noise will come from case fans, CPU fan(s) or fans on your graphics card. If you want a really quiet system, probably the best fans to get are from Noctua, since they perform really well and run quiet. They are not cheap however and lots of people don't really like thier colour scheme (brown and biege). https://noctua.at/en/products/fan My PC's CPU heatsink uses a pair of the Noctua NF-A12x25-pwm fans, and I can't hear them run at all. If you have traditional hard disk drives in your PC, they can be responsible for some noise too. I'll be going SSD for storage. What's everybody's experience with "be quiet" fans? Seems to be a decent alternative to Noctua. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted March 22, 2020 Moderator Share Posted March 22, 2020 8 minutes ago, crazzy88ss said: I'll be going SSD for storage. What's everybody's experience with "be quiet" fans? Seems to be a decent alternative to Noctua. Never used 'em. All I have experience with are Thermaltake, Noctua, CoolerMaster (higher class) and FractalDesign fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Fahim S. MVC Posted March 22, 2020 MVC Share Posted March 22, 2020 Big heatsink with no fan on it (or even a heatsink case like this: https://streacom.com/products/db4-fanless-chassis/), fanless PSU, SSDs. Result = silence Depends on what you have in terms of components. There are specialised retailers that sell fully fanless, which are pretty high spec, PCs that run relatively cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceelf Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 4 hours ago, crazzy88ss said: I'll be going SSD for storage. What's everybody's experience with "be quiet" fans? Seems to be a decent alternative to Noctua. I haven't used them yet but if I was buying they're one of my top choices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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