Silence upgrade

[Tahmerjay]

Hey, 

So my general feel is that my computer is running very very inefficiently(not necessarily in a power usage way) but im finding that its too loud

the parts get too hot, the case is ugly and various IO ports don't work i suppose the performance is a little bit to be desired but that's not really my main concern

either way i guess my options are to either buy a new pc and be done with this one or put a lil love money into it and see what happens. 

 

i recently replaced the thermal paste on the cpu and the gpu because i thought they were idling hot but it really didn't make a ton of difference

and the difference it did make was probably the dust being disturbed in the process annoyingly my gpu seems to idle at about 60 degrees and cpu around 50

 

my current system is as follows:

 

CASE: HAF airflow horrible thing that sounds like someone breathing through a straw

CPU: i5 2500

GPU: AMD HD6950

PSU: Corsair SP-650w
RAM: any old 8gb

MOBO: gigabyte ud4 

HDD/SSD: 2x2tb + 120gb

 

basically what would you do to give it a new spring of life focusing mainly on improving the aesthetics and cooling.

price isn't too much of a concern but obviously at some stage it becomes better value to just build a new pc

[nanowatt]

Idle at 60 degrees celcius?Damn what did you do to the poor pc?

[xox]

Probs a define R4 with a couple of Noctua's NF-A14 PWM fans thrown in. Of course, a new CPU cooler wouldn't go amiss. Something like the Noctua NH-U14s or the BeQuiet Shadow Rock Slim

 

If the graphics card is too loud, you can change it up to a full loop. Non-reference graphics card? Fine, use a universal GPU block. Then, you could go for a CPU block and radiators etc.

[Tahmerjay]

Idle at 60 degrees celcius?Damn what did you do to the poor pc?

i know right i cant for the life of me figure out why its that warm.

 

Probs a define R4 with a couple of Noctua's NF-A14 PWM fans thrown in. Of course, a new CPU cooler wouldn't go amiss. Something like the Noctua NH-U14s or the BeQuiet Shadow Rock Slim

 

If the graphics card is too loud, you can change it up to a full loop. Non-reference graphics card? Fine, use a universal GPU block. Then, you could go for a CPU block and radiators etc.

i mean the graphics card is part of the problem because when its 60degrees the fan is on like 40% which is bordering on sounding like a jet plane... does the define R4 have the support for water loop? pretty sure its a reference design its gigabyte but as far as i can tell all they did was slap a sticker on it