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New PC too LOUD
Hi, I just built a new pc.
abit ab9 pro Intel Core 2 duo e6600 (Thermaltake Golden Orb II Cooler) 4 gig corsair ram nvidia GF7900GT CTX 500 watt PS Cheap flimsy case This rig is running vista home premium with a tv tuner hooked to a 22 inch wide screen dell monitor. It's also in the bed room. Wife say's make it silent or be gone. Based on what you see here what can I do? |
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On 28 Feb 2007 06:14:58 -0800, "badmotorvision"
wrote: Hi, I just built a new pc. abit ab9 pro Intel Core 2 duo e6600 (Thermaltake Golden Orb II Cooler) 4 gig corsair ram nvidia GF7900GT CTX 500 watt PS Cheap flimsy case This rig is running vista home premium with a tv tuner hooked to a 22 inch wide screen dell monitor. It's also in the bed room. Wife say's make it silent or be gone. What's the temps? If the case insides are too hot, the cpu cant' keep itself cool, it will have to run the fan faster. I'd assume anything over about 40c is too hot. If this is the case, adding a cooling fan may actually make the machine quieter. Buying a decent case that uses 120mm fans may also be required. Bad news is that I've never managed to make a system be quieter than the ones you can buy these days. Based on what you see here what can I do? |
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On 28 Feb 2007 06:14:58 -0800, "badmotorvision"
wrote: Hi, I just built a new pc. abit ab9 pro Intel Core 2 duo e6600 (Thermaltake Golden Orb II Cooler) 4 gig corsair ram nvidia GF7900GT CTX 500 watt PS Cheap flimsy case This rig is running vista home premium with a tv tuner hooked to a 22 inch wide screen dell monitor. It's also in the bed room. Wife say's make it silent or be gone. Based on what you see here what can I do? The most frequent sources of noise are disk drives (older ones), cheap flimsy cases and case fans. Sounds like you already knew the solution. Greg |
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"badmotorvision" wrote in message oups.com... Hi, I just built a new pc. abit ab9 pro Intel Core 2 duo e6600 (Thermaltake Golden Orb II Cooler) 4 gig corsair ram nvidia GF7900GT CTX 500 watt PS Cheap flimsy case This rig is running vista home premium with a tv tuner hooked to a 22 inch wide screen dell monitor. It's also in the bed room. Wife say's make it silent or be gone. Based on what you see here what can I do? First thing is to replace the power supply for TWO reasons. The MAIN one is that it's likely to fail on you soon and take other expensive components down with it. Second reason is, if it's silent you want, then it's Seasonic you need. You don't need 500W, anything over 400 will do, in the Seasonic line. Example: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817151023 The next noisy component would be the fan on the video card, if the video card is actively cooled. I don't know about the 7900 chipset, but in the nvidia line the 7600 chipset cards are available passively cooled. Example: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150212 So if you have an actively cooled video card, exchange it for a passively cooled one. You might even save some money by doing this, that you can throw at the power supply you should have purchased for this system. Third source of noise is case fans. Remove ALL current case fans and throw them away. Add ONE case fan to the front of the system, sucking air into the system. It will need to be silent, and preferably 120mm, or 80mm if that's all that the case will support. Example: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835185028 expensive, but worth it, if it makes the pc quiet enough to sleep in the same room with http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835119072 This one will do also, but use 120mm if you can Not much you can do about the CPU fan. The one you got is darned near silent, the only way to improve would be to water-cool, but that would be major expense, as you'd have to water-cool the whole system, and you'd still need a new case fan. (water-cooling doesn't prevent stale air from heating up) That's as close to silent as you are going to get with that rig, without water-cooling AND investing in a passively cooled power supply, which I do not recommend (and it's damned expensive anyway) Those improvements should be done, even if the computer system is eventually moved out of the bedroom. But it's the best chance you have of keeping the system in the bedroom, also. (without investing TONS of money in ) -Dave |
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New PC too LOUD
badmotorvision wrote:
Hi, I just built a new pc. abit ab9 pro Intel Core 2 duo e6600 (Thermaltake Golden Orb II Cooler) 4 gig corsair ram nvidia GF7900GT CTX 500 watt PS Cheap flimsy case This rig is running vista home premium with a tv tuner hooked to a 22 inch wide screen dell monitor. It's also in the bed room. Wife say's make it silent or be gone. Based on what you see here what can I do? Tell the wife to go sleep on the couch. |
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New PC too LOUD
"Bob M" wrote in message ... badmotorvision wrote: Hi, I just built a new pc. abit ab9 pro Intel Core 2 duo e6600 (Thermaltake Golden Orb II Cooler) 4 gig corsair ram nvidia GF7900GT CTX 500 watt PS Cheap flimsy case This rig is running vista home premium with a tv tuner hooked to a 22 inch wide screen dell monitor. It's also in the bed room. Wife say's make it silent or be gone. Based on what you see here what can I do? Tell the wife to go sleep on the couch. Yikes! Gay, bachelor or divorced? ;^) |
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New PC too LOUD
"badmotorvision" wrote in message oups.com... Hi, I just built a new pc. abit ab9 pro Intel Core 2 duo e6600 (Thermaltake Golden Orb II Cooler) 4 gig corsair ram nvidia GF7900GT CTX 500 watt PS Cheap flimsy case This rig is running vista home premium with a tv tuner hooked to a 22 inch wide screen dell monitor. It's also in the bed room. Wife say's make it silent or be gone. Based on what you see here what can I do? Are you leaving it run 24/7? My wife comes from a long line of baby makers.....no TV and especially no computers in the bedroom. |
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badmotorvision wrote:
Hi, I just built a new pc. abit ab9 pro Intel Core 2 duo e6600 (Thermaltake Golden Orb II Cooler) 4 gig corsair ram nvidia GF7900GT CTX 500 watt PS Cheap flimsy case This rig is running vista home premium with a tv tuner hooked to a 22 inch wide screen dell monitor. It's also in the bed room. Wife say's make it silent or be gone. Based on what you see here what can I do? Could you put the computer in another room, and run cables for the interface bits ? You can waste a ton of money buying aftermarket cooling solutions, passively cooled power supplies, water blocks and extension plumbing, running to fans/radiator in another room. There are even solid state (flash) drives, for storage, to eliminate drive noise. But I'd try extending just the bits that need to be in the bedroom first, and try to leave the noisy bits in another room. Could well be cheaper to do that way. This is another approach, but this one is only fanless, if you keep the system power down. If it gets too hot, you may still need to move some air through the case, with an optional fan. Zalman makes a couple different models, and there is a bigger one than this one, somewhere in the $1000 range. I think this one only takes a microATX board. ZALMAN TNN 300 Black Steel MicroATX Mid Tower $640 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811235003 In terms of power: E6600 processor - 65W 7900GT - 48.4W in 3D mode http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/vid...r-noise_4.html Your system is not too bad, in terms of total power consumption. Maybe 195W total or so. But sticking it in another room, is better than starting all over again. If you want to build a quiet system, you have to plan each component purchase, with that in mind. Plenty of high end video cards, are noisier than they have to be. Maybe you could just stick the computer, on the other side of the bedroom wall, and knock a couple holes out to run cables :-) Paul |
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On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:04:15 -0600, Bob M
wrote: badmotorvision wrote: It's also in the bed room. Wife say's make it silent or be gone. Based on what you see here what can I do? Tell the wife to go sleep on the couch. Gee Bob... Some of us LIKE women. Greg |
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"Paul" wrote in message ... badmotorvision wrote: You can waste a ton of money buying aftermarket cooling solutions, passively cooled power supplies, water blocks and extension plumbing, running to fans/radiator in another room. Has anyone ever done this - run water cooling into another room? ...or know of information about it. I was wondering if this is possible/practical. Jeff -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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