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How much do you care about the sound level of your pc?

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I'd rate myself at 3. I want everything to be as silent as possible but I won't go out of my way to achieve total silence or spend extra on more expensive solutions.

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I don't really care, but my cpu fan has started to go crazy. It's like 2300 rpm when playing tropico 5

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For CPU cooling, I use the Corsair H100i, which is sort of quiet, but when it comes to other parts around the case like the GPU, the PSU, or for the system fans just for circulation, then it starts to get somewhat louder when I run my 200mm fans at a higher setting. When I turn it down its just about a 2.

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im around probably 2. i like having a extremely quiet computer when doing simple tasks. when gaming or doing something a bit more intensive, i can deal with a bit of sound

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As for now I'm OK with slow spinning fans to get some airflow is acceptable, but I'm really looking forward to the day when one can have the best tier of components and yet have it completely free of moving parts.

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I like a slight blowing/humming to my computer, I like background noise and it helps me fall asleep.

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I very much care about the sound level, however, the sound level is not exactly great. 3 x reference 7970. That'll give you an idea.

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My computer is 40-50 cm next to me on earvlevel, so quetness is pretty important for me. I do wear headphones all the time, but those are open so it wouldn't make a difference if I didn't wear any at all. I don't mind some fan spin noise because that makes me feel comfortable that the pc is still alive. In the current state of my computer I'm nit too happy with the sound but that's only because of that bloody harddrive, it's the bottleneck of the system and makes the most noise, any other fan I have is pretty silent.

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I wear headphones but I still like a quiet PC for the sake of people on skype or teamspeak or w/e. I aim to hear nothing but air moving but during the summer that's hard to achieve : /

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Well... I'm an American raised near the beach, and I like loud stuff.  For example: motorcycles, cars, boats, guns, large waves, concerts, rollercoasters, bonfires, sizzling bar-b-cues, playing kids, and a loud pc.  Silence is pretty much always a bad thing as far as I'm concerned.

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I voted 4... I wouldn't want a PC noisy enough to lead me to use headphones but where I live, it's very hot so I can't expect to have a completely silent PC.

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Personally i would put myself at 7 on this, I don't hear it much if I don't pay attention, and I normally wear headphones anyways. On my laptop I care more, but my laptop is for different uses.

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My current rig is rather quiet when idling, the loudest part is the cheap as chips CDROM spinning up to speed and the occasional hard drive powering up. But when it games it sounds like a hoover. Curiously a while back I looked into why the fans power up so much even when light gaming and i found one of my GPU's gets rather hot,  so now in addition to the fans of the GPU's screaming i also have a desk fan situated so that it blows additional air into my rig. Bad i know, but till i can afford a new case with better airflow its going to have to do.  

 

But meh, I'm not massively fussed about the sound level of my PC, only the temperature. If its loud as a hoover but cool I'm happy. 

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I used to not care that much and be at 6.. But after I got noctua fans I can't go back, it's 2 for me now..

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my pc is almost silent and i usually play with speakers so it's important for me

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I Water Cool for silence, not Overclocking.  The pump is the loudest thing on my machine, all the 120mm fans are slow and silent, the radiator is efficent at low CFM airspeed, and the GPUs (which are currently air cooled) are using silent fans (ACX cooling on EVGA 780ti classifieds)

I miss the days passive cooling was possible.

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I put it down at 10.

 

The machine I use the most is in my bed room and I have a table fan running 24/7 that blows on me when I'm sleeping and if it's quiet in the room, I feel strange.

 

But on the note of PC noise. I really don't care about how much noise it makes. If it's just a fan hum that's cool. If it sounds like a microwave going than we have an issue but a little fan noise won't kill me. Right now my fans are running at maybe 90% on the dial and it sounds really dull, can't hear it unless I'm close to the case.

 

I also ripped the sound dampening foam from my h440 and it's made the temps better.

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I'd put myself on a 1½, but I voted 2.

A 0db system would constantly give me thoughts of it overheating, so <800rpm fans are the way to go for me.

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A PC in another room is very quiet :)  Just put a little hole in a wall and route your display and other cables through.

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My computer is relatively quiet but is still not quiet enough for me to leave it on when I sleep. So in order to have it silent I would have to turn it off.

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I dont use headphones that much and I leave my pc on while sleeping doing stuff..So I want it to be as quiet as possible.

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