Silent PC recomendations?

[tomas3man]

Country: US Dollars

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X

GPU: Nvidia 4070

 

How to build silent PC?

What do you recommend, CPU Air Cooler or AIO?

What brand and type of box you recommend, and why?

FAN: What type of FAN? Where? How many? What direction intake, blow, where?

GPU: Dual fans shorter one or 3 fans longer?

 

[jaslion]

Put it in another room and use a long display and usb cable.

 

During gaming it wont be quiet. It can be not loud but it will be audible.

 

The cpu is easy to quiet down but the gpu will always be the noisiest part.

 

Also is this for gaming? If so a 7800x3xd is THE BEST gaming cpu. A 7950x does not compare.

 

What are all the parts you have?

[LinusIsTuff]

Noctua is pretty quiet, and you can under volt stuff if you want it to be really quiet

[tomas3man]

1 hour ago, jaslion said:

Put it in another room and use a long display and usb cable.

 

During gaming it wont be quiet. It can be not loud but it will be audible.

 

The cpu is easy to quiet down but the gpu will always be the noisiest part.

 

Also is this for gaming? If so a 7800x3xd is THE BEST gaming cpu. A 7950x does not compare.

 

What are all the parts you have?

This is not for gaming. Creativity working. So, You recommend 7800X3D? Lower temperature right?

[tomas3man]

31 minutes ago, Linuswasright said:

Not us is pretty quiet, and you can under volt stuff if you want it to be really quiet

There are few ways to under volt, what do you recommend?

[LinusIsTuff]

1 minute ago, tomas3man said:

This is not for gaming. Creativity working. So, You recommend 7800X3D? Lower temperature right?

For creativity, get an i7 and an aio, and under volt it. It should be pretty quiet.

[LinusIsTuff]

1 minute ago, tomas3man said:

There are few ways to under volt, what do you recommend?

Msi afterburner, idk much about how to do it with intel tho. I’m used to and systems

[tomas3man]

1 hour ago, jaslion said:

Put it in another room and use a long display and usb cable.

 

During gaming it wont be quiet. It can be not loud but it will be audible.

 

The cpu is easy to quiet down but the gpu will always be the noisiest part.

 

Also is this for gaming? If so a 7800x3xd is THE BEST gaming cpu. A 7950x does not compare.

 

What are all the parts you have?

What do you think about 4080 16GB GDDR6X Noctua OC Edition? Worth it?

[LinusIsTuff]

1 minute ago, tomas3man said:

What do you think about 4080 16GB GDDR6X Noctua OC Edition? Worth it?

Non super? Super costs less iirc, and I meant fans and coolers not for gpu. Any 3 fan should be fine

[tomas3man]

6 minutes ago, Linuswasright said:

Msi afterburner, idk much about how to do it with intel tho. I’m used to and systems

MSI Afterburner is an app for Windows. Do you have same functionality in BIOS?

[jaslion]

12 minutes ago, tomas3man said:

This is not for gaming. Creativity working. So, You recommend 7800X3D? Lower temperature right?

Then a 7950x may be the best choice.

 

However I recommend you follow the new builds planning with budget, usecase, location,... so we can see if we can make a noise optimized build

 

[Dr. Will0hlep]

13 minutes ago, tomas3man said:

This is not for gaming. Creativity working. So, You recommend 7800X3D? Lower temperature right?

3D CPUs are good at gaming because their increased cache size. However, they are not typically recommended for creative work cause they have lower clock speeds.

[tomas3man]

1 hour ago, jaslion said:

Put it in another room and use a long display and usb cable.

 

Putting in another room is not a option.

I am planing to put some additional mesh inside box. Like this one. And under volt to reduce power about 5% and gain much more reduced heat production. What do you think?

 

 

[jaslion]

8 minutes ago, tomas3man said:

Putting in another room is not a option.

I am planing to put some additional mesh inside box. Like this one. And under volt to reduce power about 5% and gain much more reduced heat production. What do you think?

 

 

Don't? If you put that in front of tans it will impede airflow meaning the fans will need to spin harder and thus louder to compensate.

 

Basically to have as quiet a pc as possible the trick is to have REALLY GOOD airflow for as low temps as possible, undervolt it potentially as that lowers temps too and then put it somewhere where the front and back of the case are blocked from you. Like put it behind a wood panel or something. Basically don't have the front or back of the pc face you as that is where the noise will come out off. Have it first need to bounc off a wall or something else before it gets to you.

 

For further reduction you could have the front and back face some noise reduction foam but make sure IT DOES NOT impede it's airflow.

 

The trick to making a pc quiet is good cooling, quiet fans, low temps and making any noise it makes travel around the room as much as possible before it gets to your ears.

 

I have a desk with solid sides and back. I simply put my pc behind the desk so it first hits the curtain behind it with the noise out of the back and it seriously muffles any noise it makes. If I need to use my curtain it does get more audible as then the curtain is flat instead of bundled up about 40cm away from it.

[PDifolco]

17 minutes ago, tomas3man said:

Putting in another room is not a option.

I am planing to put some additional mesh inside box. Like this one. And under volt to reduce power about 5% and gain much more reduced heat production. What do you think?

 

 

Really the best way to get min noise level is a full loop... Kinda wasteful on a 4070 but ok for a 4080

Failing that, get a good 360AIO for the CPU (Arctic LF3 or such), a good airflow case (Fractal Torrent), some additional quiet case fans (BQ SW3 or Noctuas NF12x25), a 3 fan GPU (if a 4070), undervolt both CPU and GPU, and it shouldn't be noisy at all

[tomas3man]

2 hours ago, jaslion said:

Don't? If you put that in front of tans it will impede airflow meaning the fans will need to spin harder and thus louder to compensate.

This is very interesting for me. You do not recommend putting any mesh materials in the front of fans. I understand and agree with you, that will force FAN to blow much more. But in other way.

 

Lets look at Be Quiet! Dark Base Pro 901 or Fractal Design Define 7 Compact TG Dark Tint. It has a many mesh. Its all dust filters, sound damping materials? he? What yo think?

 

 

[Stahlmann]

Airflow oriented case and custom water cooling. Get specific low-resistance radiators so you can use low RPM fans. EK radiators, for example, are terrible for low noise because they have a high fin density, and lower RPM fans won't be able to overcome the resistance and cool effectively at low speeds.

 

Link the fan speed with the water temperature instead of CPU or GPU, so they will ramp up and down slowly. The main thing that is annoying about coolers is the frequent change in fan or pump speed. A subtle curve will be less distracting, even if it's ultimately louder. This is called fan hysteresis by reviewers like Gamers Nexus.

 

My setup consists of two 360mm radiators and six fans in total. While idling, the fans only spin around 400-600 RPM, so they're completely inaudible. Under prolonged load, they can get up to 1000-1100 RPM, which is audible but still pretty quiet. The pump is running at around 1600, which is basically the highest RPM where it stays inaudible. I found that pump RPM doesn't have a huge impact on CPU and GPU temperatures, so I decided to keep it on the lower end. That's as good as you're gonna get without putting the PC in another room.

[jaslion]

1 hour ago, tomas3man said:

This is very interesting for me. You do not recommend putting any mesh materials in the front of fans. I understand and agree with you, that will force FAN to blow much more. But in other way.

 

Lets look at Be Quiet! Dark Base Pro 901 or Fractal Design Define 7 Compact TG Dark Tint. It has a many mesh. Its all dust filters, sound damping materials? he? What yo think?

 

 

These cases are quite old and/or are revisions of older cases.

 

They are there to fix an issue that was present in the early 2010's which was there were few actually quiet components and the gpu's never were quiet.

 

Nowadays it's hard to find a card as loud as the average one form back in the day. Making these cases have only very niche useses.

 

For you they would NOT be quieter as these cases would need to run their fans FASTER and thus be louder negating anything the foam does.

 

The foam helps mostly with high pitched whining and it is ok to apply these foams to a non ventilated panel like the usual glass panel in cases these days. It will have a very minimal effect but it cant hurt to do this.

 

So no I do not recommend these types of cases as any benefit they bring is negated by just needing to run the fans harder.

 

If you want true silence you need to spend money.

 

There are 4 options:

 

Remove the system from the room and just buy longer cables which can be 50-200$ depending on length

 

Do a almost passive watercooling loop. Easily 500$

 

Buy a big cpu AND gpu cooler. There are oversized coolers on cards now. With an undervolt and good airflow these can be VERY quiet. Silent cpu coolers are easy to come by a sycthe fuma 2 and 3 is like 60$.

 

Mod the gpu to use desktop silent fans.