After replacing my loud crossfire cards with a single card that is very very silent, I set on making the rest of the case quiet as well.
I replaced my loud front fans with silent Arctic Cooling ones, lowered the spin speed, and replaced the screws with weird plastic spacers.
Now the loudest thing in the case is the AIO cooler's pump. Not the fans on it, the pump. Nothing to do at this point besides potentially replace it with a giant heatsink, right?
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Your three HDDs arent loud?
They're not spinning most of the time
get rid of the AIO, go for an air cooler
go ssd
buy a quiet gpu that doesn't run hot but it powerful like a 1070
have a maximum of just 3 fans in your system, make sure they are noctua
I have 2 SSD's you retard.
Are they what's taking up the extra 900 watts that you need that PSU for?
Fuck off.
Why are your fans mounted like fucking garbage?
I have a 1080 in there, the fans don't spin at idle and even at load the three-slot cooler is fairly silent
I do have 2xSSD's, the two front fans are arctic cooling F14 as I said and fairly silent. I could replace the corsair one in the back (though it's not that bad at ~700 rpm, only useless at that speed maybe) and two that are mounted on the AIO cooler.
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>After replacing my loud crossfire cards
It used to power more graphics cards (and three more hard drives I moved to a NAS since then). Was overkill by ~200W even then though but I got it at the same price as a 1000W unit.
nice roleplaying
Supposedly it's more silent this way
Not sure if I'm convinced yet
It looks like it completely kills the airflow through the grille
Aren't those anti-vibration screw holes in those corsair fans?
not in the stock case fans.
I have this:
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It keeps my 4690k under 50 celcius with passive cooling when im browsing or watching netflix or light gaming. In heavy games it spins up and cools well
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It requires GOOD airflow. I do that with 3 140mm exhaust and a 200mm intake
>glorified screws
> kills the airflow through the grille
wat
>Seperating the fan from the grille by an inch
>go ssd
yup, magnetic drives are loud af.
I still have a 2TB magnetic in my rig (films/music on it).
Everytime this thing speeds up my floor shakes and I startle from the noise.
>max 3 fans
thats what I thought all the time but my opinion changed.
We got a cutty edge VR Rig at work with two overclocked Pascal TitanX and i7-6800K.
It sits in a huge and basically empty case with 17(!) fans. (pic related, shit phone camera)
Each fan spins so slow you cannot hear this thing. It also runs 8°C cooler than stock TitanX cooler, this gives us the room for overclocking. The hardware guy did an excellent job on this.
that's a problem?
>17 fans
top kek
Those Arctic blocks are REALLY nice, I had an older version, whisper quiet.
>no airflow direly on the motherboard VRMs/RAM
into the trash it goes.
>no airflow direly on the motherboard VRMs/RAM
so many fans you can't see the mainboard