Noise reduction without breaking the bank

[Karim Bizid]

Fellow nerds!

 

I have a not so high spec build running in my livingroom that is making a bit to much noise to my liking.

Ideally I would tone that a bit done without breaking the bank.

 

Currently I have a Noctua NH-D15 cooler equipped that might be a bit overkill for the Ryzen 5 3600 that's its currently cooling, 

but I am planning on moving that CPU over to a NAS and upgrading this one..

It will still be an AM4 CPU though.
 

It's mainly the NH-D15 that is generation the noise I am hearing.. Despite the coolest setting the motherboard gives me.

The other case fans and the GPU are well within their margin.

 

Would moving to a something like NZXT Kraken X53 do the job?

Any other ideas?

 

I am also planning on trying the Noctua low noise adapters, but somehow I have lost one.

 

I know custom watercooling is an obvious call in a noise viewpoint, but I am not really fun of the prosses to be honest....

 

Just posting this for some fresh viewpoints... Hit me :)

 

 

 

[Bismut]

22 minutes ago, Karim Bizid said:

Despite the coolest setting the motherboard gives me.

Did you manually set the fan curve? My MoBo has the "quiet" preset at over 60% fanspeed at all times, and the NH-D15 should cool a 3600 basically without noise as long as it's getting some fresh air. A 240mm AIO won't perform any better unless it gets more/colder air than the tower cooler.

[Karim Bizid]

5 minutes ago, Bismut said:

Did you manually set the fan curve? My MoBo has the "quiet" preset at over 60% fanspeed at all times, and the NH-D15 should cool a 3600 basically without noise as long as it's getting some fresh air. A 240mm AIO won't perform any better unless it gets more/colder air than the tower cooler.

I did.. The tools for it aren't really ideal in this Gigabyte board so that isn't a really perfect solution.
The PC is mainly running daily tasks but does some gaming from time to time.. Therefore I might be a bit (too) carefull with pulling the fans down all the way...

 

[jaslion]

An nhd15 at idle should be inaudible a x53 is far louder thannthe nhd15

 

Something isnt right as those fans should be running at 16db at max they do 35db.

 

Might be your fan curve being weird so just turn it down all the wqy and if you worry at 85c turn the speed to like 80%

[PDifolco]

4 minutes ago, Karim Bizid said:

I did.. The tools for it aren't really ideal in this Gigabyte board so that isn't a really perfect solution.
The PC is mainly running daily tasks but does some gaming from time to time.. Therefore I might be a bit (too) carefull with pulling the fans down all the way...

 

Install FanControl 

https://github.com/Rem0o/FanControl.Releases

Put your fan at say 50% flat you won't hear it

[tkitch]

A D15 is more than overkill on a R5 3600.  That should be whisper quiet 24/7.

 

Any non-OEM motherboard should have more than enough fan control options to set the curve.  What motherboard?  

[NorKris]

1 hour ago, Karim Bizid said:

 

 

Would moving to a something like NZXT Kraken X53 do the job?

Any other ideas?

Arctics freezer2  240 or EK's 240 maybe 

[Karim Bizid]

6 minutes ago, tkitch said:

A D15 is more than overkill on a R5 3600.  That should be whisper quiet 24/7.

 

Any non-OEM motherboard should have more than enough fan control options to set the curve.  What motherboard?  

Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE V2.
It could be done, but I am not really over the moon of the GUI Gigabyte provides for it. 

Will definatly try FanControl though! 

As you guys are pointing out I am probably way to carefull tuning the fans down.. 
I will do a testdrive tonight with the fans tuned down much more and see where we stand on temperature and noise.

 

Thanks so far!

[tkitch]

you legit should be able to run those fans at 20% up to about 50 or 55c on the CPU.  

You don't need to set it over 50% until it's breaking 65 or 70c.

[johnno23]

Gigabyte fan control works great if you do it in the bios....the desktop software is total garbage.

been using gigabyte motherboards for years and always used the bios for the fan controls.

just select the cpu fan where your noctua should be connected on the motherboard then set to run manually. 

I would say lowest speed up to 50c then at 80c set it to 75% and 90c let it run full tilt.

The CPU under normal loads etc should not hit such high temps so your fan should be whisper quiet.

Also load HWinfo64 and run the sensors panel just to check that the CPU is behaving nice. possibly the noise is due to hot temps that have crept upwards over time and the cpu would need repasting but under normal circumstances you have one of the absolute quitest form of cooling possible. Water cooling is really only interesting if you have those cpus and GPUs that decide the universe needs more heat and do their best to make you sweat in the winter.

 

[Karim Bizid]

Getting a bit stuck here on a new issue:

 

I cannot seem to get in BIOS anymore.
While I hold the BIOS key at boot the system doens't show any video output.

Also tried the WinRE way to reboot into UEFI Firmware.. Same story... No video output.

I have been fiddeling around with the desktop software and that doens't seem te respond very well.
Everytime I open up the Gigabyte software it needs te recalibrate the fans because of a so called motherboard change..

 

Something is not playing nice..
 

[freeagent]

Take the fans off

 

Like remove them from the cooler completely!

 

D15 is the best right? I was able to run my 3600XT with no fan on my Le Grand Macho RT at a static 4400MHz Linpack stable..

[Karim Bizid]

On 3/15/2023 at 2:01 PM, PDifolco said:

Install FanControl 

https://github.com/Rem0o/FanControl.Releases

Put your fan at say 50% flat you won't hear it

This has made a enormous change for now! 
i am not able to reach this result with the Gigabyte software AT ALL!

 

The PC is dead slient!

Still have to figure out why I am not getting into BIOS though, but that's one for a rainy day!

 

 

Thanks all!!!

 

 

[NorKris]

12 minutes ago, Karim Bizid said:

This has made a enormous change for now! 
i am not able to reach this result with the Gigabyte software AT ALL!

 

The PC is dead slient!

Still have to figure out why I am not getting into BIOS though, but that's one for a rainy day!

 

 

Thanks all!!!

 

 

hold shift  when u press  restart pc -> bios 

[Karim Bizid]

6 hours ago, NorKris said:

hold shift  when u press  restart pc -> bios 

Same story unfortunatly..

 

I did a BIOS update last week.. Starting to wonder if there is something wrong there...