How much noise does your computer make according to the following scale?
0 - 100% completely absolutely silent PC with zero moving parts 1 - super silent, all fans are barely audible if they spin at all 2 - silent, but there's a distinct audible pitch the fans make, but it is too soft for most people to complain about 3 - middle ground; neither silent nor turbulently loud 4 - loud to the point where if you put silent background music on, the noise will overpower the music 5 - like 4 but it fluctuates between semi-loud and quite loud 6 - like 5 but basically it's always quite loud 7 - like 6 but occasionally it starts making a loud mechanical sound like things are rubbing together, upon which you kick the case and it quiets down with a reasonable chance 8 - like 7 but loud mechanical noises regardless of the angle of force applied in the form of a kick to the case 9 - hairdrier set to MAX level loudness, semi-possible to have a conversation near the PC 10 - vacuum cleaner level loudness, absolutely impossible to have a conversation near the PC 11 - my computer is actually a diesel submarine
1. Super silent Define R4 with all 140mm fans spining at the slowest they can RM650 PSU never turns on its fan Gpu fans dont move unless temp goes over 60 degrees celcius same with the NH-D14 on the CPU.
Hudson Bell
3 until a drive that's like 10 years old spins up, then it's a 8
Matthew Gonzalez
speaking of gpu fans, i have a 7950 and the fan is spins and is audble even at 0% is there a way to actually cut power to it until it heats up enough?
Connor Hughes
angry bees/10
Carter Ramirez
3 or 4 in regular use as I use my case fans with 12V all the time and I got a WD Velociraptor which is a noisy drive, so when it's accessed you can hear nice sounds of it working If my GPU gets loaded my machine is probably at level 9, R9 290 with the reference heatsink + fan is noisy
Justin Thompson
I use Asus GPU Tweak to make a custom plan for the GPU fans, I'm pretty sure you can do this on most GPU's.
mine is between 1 and 2 I have a HAF X case but swapped the original fans out for some that look very similar but push a larger amount of air through with a lower rpm. I also use SSD's no HDD so get no case vibration or clicking noises. I also swapped the wheels on the case for soft jelly wheels. Replace the fans every 18 months unless I am playing a really intense graphics game my gpu fan is barely audible
Charles Brooks
msi afterburner is the best
Eli Nelson
My server is 6, laptop 0
Zachary Carter
It's a 2 when I'm doing regular everyday things but will shoot up to a 4 when I'm doing resource intensive tasks like compiling.
Ryan Stewart
thing is the fan doesnt stop when its at the bottom tried afterburner, speedfan, custom bios
i also have a case fan blowing right into the gpu backplate and wanna control it off of the gpu speedfan doesnt even detect it even though its 4pin 600 core/1000 memory mhz at 0.81v, cool enough but i'd like to raise it without more noise im kinda mad but not really
Justin Morgan
7 I have way too many HDDs making my whole case vibrate. Also 2 GPUs
Colton Brooks
It used to be 3, but now it's sometimes 4
David Jenkins
are you sure you set afterburner up correctly?
Thomas Robinson
well the fan curve definitely works and if i set it to a certain amount 0-33% are kinda audible and above that is jet engine tier 0% fanspeed doesnt stop the fan though
Luke White
>Silent background music >Silent >Music
Lincoln Bennett
>try building 0 >coil whine sets in Why is this a thing?
Nathan Roberts
limit fps/underclock lmao
Wyatt Watson
11. I have 12 HDDs and 2 GTX690s in my machine.
Austin Clark
1 on normal usage 4 on load the 1080 likes to become a turbojet when playing games also raid0 hdd-s spinning up make it like a 3 at normal usage
Luke Barnes
0, it's like you fags don't pad your walls with acoustic foam
My laptop by itself is about a 1, on the cooling pad about a 3. I actually wish it was louder, as I absolutely can't stand complete silence anymore. I can't bear to listen to the sounds of my own body and the eerie background static of the universe around me... Or maybe I just have tinnitus, idk.
Asher Evans
my cpu and case fans are running at 100%. i can hear it from across the room
Cooper Cook
>s340e >bequiet german meme fans >kraken >strix gpu (best cooling and quietest non reference there is) super silent. just have most lights off so it looks sleek and only moves up to "silent" under load
Nolan Diaz
Explain? It's not asbestos
Chase Cooper
1-2 while idle/internet browsing, 4-5 while gaming/other intense usage. Pic related.
2 and 8. Define R5, RAID1 for / and /home with a SSD and a 2.5" mechanical drive as write-mostly makes it a 2 a lot of the time. My /storage on my desktop is a 4x3TB drive RAID10 array. Those go to sleep after 20 minutes of no activity. It really is loud as fuck. The Define R5 has some supposedly dampening drive bays but those rubber things don't help much at all.
It actually annoys me that every single "case review" talks about fans this and that. Don't care, swap to quiet case fans and use a massive over-sized block on the CPU cooler and that fan stays at it's lowest RPM (Slam a huge 140W rated heatsink on a 65W TDP CPU and you're golden). My only concern is the HDD noise because 4+ drive setups are really noisy no matter what you do. The only "solution" I've come up with is to make sure they quickly go to sleep when they are not used (which has the downside of a lot of wear and tear as well as delays due to spin-up time when you need them).
Elijah Hughes
just enough to cover my tinnitus
Nolan James
Ranges from 1 to 5 depending what profile i use.
Mason Jenkins
4 during heavy loads, 2 when I'm not running Avid
Carson Rogers
1 on idle or browsing, 2 in games (arctic freezer2 somerhing) But it was not always the case. Back in the day off AMD stock cooler it was 3 on idle, 4 while browsing, 5 while earning you tube in HD and, literally 7 while playing.
Logan Thompson
I don't hear the fans, just that frying egg sound coming from the hard drive.
