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

[ForeseenVisionz]

Silent or GTFO

[Redheadsrule13]

I really don't like sound. My HDD is current the loudest thing and it still annoys me. Especially when the vibrations come through my desk and up to my hand.

[Brett Taggart]

Ive only really recently started caring about the noise of my PC, with having loud poor quality fans and fans on Intel heat sinks just plainly not working (LGA 1366 I'm looking at you ) it does annoy me when the GPU does ramp up. I do current have a pretty much stock 750D and Im fairly happy with the noise it makes, but any louder and I would be unsatisfied.

[Guest Generallee]

With 9 fans running at 70% and a 290 trying to summon Satan himself into my room

 

 

Who needs silence anyway

[enRodjavel]

Well depends on what I'm doing, deadsilent if I'm typing much or for a longer time cause I love my green cherry switches clickediclackedi sound , and when gaming it doesn't really matter if it sounds a lot or not cause I'm usually blasting some kind of sweet "HardRocking" music anyways =D

[Stagea]

As long as I can't hear it from where I sit, I am fine. #2 for me.

[Copper]

4, for the times when I'm not wearing headphones or watching videos, I would love my computer to be silent. Just makes everything better and you'll feel more relaxed when you're tired without the noise bugging you.

[Auklin]

I think this poll isn't quite true to the question. When reading this, I would pick the option that was synonymous with "I don't really care about the sound level, it just can't be distracting",

 

not so much a level of sound that I prefer, obviously I'd want it to be completely silent. 

Interesting poll though.

[BloodWithIce]

I am obsessed with silence and if it wasn't for a dying HDD my pc would be 100% silent with my custom loop installed.

[Lays]

I'm a 3.

It must be so silent that, while idle it cannot be heard and while under load be silent enough that someone 5 metres away doesn't hear it. However, no self-respecting gamer can ever game with a 100% silent pc.

 

 

Wut? elaborate pls.

[Bansh33]

Non whatsoever it doesn't bother me if it can hear it and it's not clanging shit around its working lol jk but I honestly don't really care as long as a plane isn't taking off in my living room or if it's louder than a game installing off of a dvd

[steffen_anywhere]

It annoys the shit out of me if I'm using a loud machine at idle, for browsing, productivity and such.

 

When gaming tho, I think it is fine. I wear IEMs, so I hear nothing from my outside world anyways.

 

That said, I use a MacBook Pro, which is not audible at idle (not joking, since the fan is the only moving part, which is extremely quiet at idle speeds, it is dead silent), that first point is fine. When gaming tho, the laptop sounds like the the stock R9 290X in Uber mode (maybe not quite as bad).

[elkenrod]

I record audio/video

 

nuff said.

[jameyscott]

Constant sound just ends up being background noise to me.  So, I really don't care if my fans are spinning at a moderately high level (1600+ RPM)  if it is constant.  I also run an AC unit about 3 feet from my desk, so that drowns out my PC completely unless I am running my fans at full blast, which I only do for benching because I don't care about sound at that point. 

 

I also normally wear headphones, so the noise honestly doesn't bother me unless I'm running my headphones at a low volume.  

 

My sound tolerance levels over the past year have slowly decreased though. I used to not care at all.  All in the pursuit of performance! Now it is starting to bug me a bit.  Eventually I'll just get a caselabs so I can run a massive amount of radiators and have a bunch of fans that spin at 300RPM.

[MRL]

I used to build a PC with tons of fans, the noise level is... well... I didn't realize the PC is actually so loud and I rarely turn it off when I'm at home... once I turned it off one day, it felt so quiet... peaceful quiet...  :lol:

 

I guess wind noise doesn't bother me much but vibration noise does annoy me... the sound of the fan of my Seidon 240M at 60% is enough to kill me (though 60% doesn't really make the cpu cooler than running at 35% which is dead silent  ) and the sound of the fan of my GTX680 at 50% is enough to make me stop playing any games....

[Cwazywazy]

I'm deaf with Cochlear implants and when it's plugged into my PCs audio I can't hear the fans so I really don't care most of the time. I don't like it to be too loud but most of the time I run the fans on max speed.

 

My old computer had a blower fan on the heatsink which was like a jet engine. I didn't care.

[mrthuvi]

In the summer, it doesn't bother me. Sweating like a pig, I have a large fan running right next to me which creates far more noise than my computer at max fan level.

But in the winter, the noise drives my inner OCD-self crazy.

[mapegl]

I have an itx system which just makes noise more of an issue. But I got it ok quiet and I don't notice it much through my open-design headphones. I used to have a super quiet atx rig. That was easier to pull off.

[Rorgash]

I cant hear you over the silence of my Noctua fans..

[LogicalDrm]

I voted 5, though it could be 3-4 also. The thing is that when I have headphones and I'm gaming or watching videos it doesn't matter so much. CPU&GPU coolers have been tuned so I can't hear fan noise over game audio (CPU 70%, GPU 45%). At idle I'd really liked if it would be bit quieter. But because I upgrade system so slowly it means that when I get loudest part toned down, next one get my attention. So cwhile idle, I'd like it to be db or two quieter.

 

Btw. Should topics get mark like "Featured by @LinusTech"

[Rmlk2ei]

It really bothers me if theres like a prominent sound like clicking or any sort of distinct, annoying (even if subtle) sound. Otherwise, like fans running and humming noises and what not im alright with those. I voted for a 5, am wearing headsets anyway. 

[Chris635]

1 while idle and lite loads. 4 or 5 while gaming. Noctua all the way for me, all ten of them.

[Thylaine]

The loudest thing in my system are the HDDs (i don't hear them often). Noctua NH-D14 and Nvidia Graphics other then that I have put no effort into keeping my system "silent" I love it.

[cluelessgenius]

i usually wear headphone but i tend to just wear one side of them so i can hear my surrounding. i know that defeats the purpose but if i wear them full on i feel to isolated and get yelled at alot so yeah basicly i like my pc to shut the hell up cause i my mind noise is its way of complaining about the load im putting on it. ill get a bunch of radiators soon and make her shut up

[Drunken Savior]

Hard to really judge.  I put money into silence (fans, case) but I definitely prioritize other things above it.  So I guess I put a 4.  I just don't want it to be omnipresent in my ears whenever I'm in the room.