On a scale from 1-10 how noisy is Your PC?

[SeriouslyMikey]

Probably a three. I cant hear it most of the time, but when the HDD decides to not play ball, that's when I hear the PC. Fans are turned all the way down all the time and it's quite pleasant. 

[Recon97]

-1 at idle and 1 at full load.

Never understood why people have so much noisy computers.

[SirRoderick]

Depends, I have the x62 Kraken cooling setup on a temp curve through CAM software. Idling or browsing etc it's practically not running and pretty inaudible. Running the Witcher and it heats up, fans go up to what I'd call a moderate woosh. With headphones, even open ones, not a big deal.

[robertw1995]

Super quiet, Inaudible most of the time.

 

Be Quiet Pure Rock for the CPU

 

x2 Noctua NF-A14 Fans for intake & exhaust.

 

 

[12g28m]

my is properly 8 under low load but on full load it is a 10

[-iSynthesis]

2; The 280x is really quite which surprised me and doesn't have a lot of coil whine; The enermax cooler with a Bitfenix Fan is pretty quiet and when the nzxt fans don't run at 100% they aren't too loud either.

[Vivilacqua1]

mines always off sooooo....

 

 

ok jk. I have two noctuas and and all my other fans are at extremely reduced speed.

[CaptainPebbleDash]

It's impossible to hear mine as soon as I put my headphones on, even without any sound coming out of them. Luckily my h110i decided to stop making weird noises at me, so I'm now pretty much noise free!

 

x4 140mm intakes & my AIO as the exhaust. Also managed to get my GPU to stay under 60 whilst under load which is nice. (PSU is facing upwards as I'm awkward )

[don_svetlio]

3/10 - loudest thing is the Asus 280 and even then the fans never go past 37%

[DarrenP]

Hahaha, My PC is incredibly loud, Just ask anyone at @Lays teamspeak... hahaha

[PlayStation 2]

When it's at idle, it's really quiet. I mean I hear the hard drive wanting to commit sudoku suicide before I hear the cooling being itself. When it's running games it can get pretty loud and very hot. I mean 80+C hot.

[TheSLSAMG]

I run all my fans at minimal speeds to achieve a silent PC, but my temps suffer because of it. I'm itching to get a new case and fans.

[App4that]

Very quiet at idle with the fans running at 30-40%. At full pull you can hear everything but it's not annoying. Well, it was but I found that fan. And killed it.

 

Case temps are 30c at idle, 40c at full pull. My case, it has many fans.

[Stefan1024]

Totally passive, no HDDs and coil while damped with foam.... I would say ultra quiet.

No try to beat my

[19_blackie_73]

basically i can't hear it when i turn it on except the hdd

 

How do i keep mine quiet? Set the fan preset in the uefi on silent and have good fans and the whole time free dust filters and a clean case. Oh and it has noise dampening material.

[Real_PhillBert]

I went with a 4. much quieter than any prebuilt machine I have ever had, but my fan curves are a bit higher since I am a temp nazi. 

[flibberdipper]

At idle my computer is nearly silent, and under load it's hard to hear.

 

Man I love this TwinFrozr III cooler on my 7950...

[Guest]

5, my pc is a bit loud at idle because I chose to have one front fan fun at full all the time but it doesn't ramp up much under load, temps are really decent for an air cooled system

[SuperShires]

Id say 5 but maybe 4, cause I dont notice it most of the time and Im sat right next to it, Im pretty adamant that its my hard drives that make the most noise.

[iamdarkyoshi]

my new PC is going to be silent. NH-D14 on a 3930k CPU and the r9 390x gets to hog a massive 360mm AND 240mm radiator setup.

[AnthonyPaull]

3 120mm Noctua airflow fans, 2 140mm NZXT Airflow fans, 1 Noctua Pressure Optimized fan (On the CPU rad) (All the fans are running at 700RPM, but the rad fan is running at 1000), NZXT H440, for dat silence. 

Basically if I put it under my desk, I can't hear it at all, on my desk it's sounds about as loud as really soft breathing(Mouth). I used to have Bit Fenix fans in a Ronin case, but they sounded like a jet engine. My GPU has 0DB fan mode, so that's cool, and when I'm gaming I use my G930's so they block 99% of the noise, so the GPU fans don't bother me at all.

[CrusaderNINE]

Rated it a 5, which might be a bit high all things considered. When I turn everything up to 11 its pretty loud, maybe a 6-7, but at idle when i use my fan control i can get it pretty quiet, but my idle temps go up. Might be picking up a couple noctuas for my radiator since NZXT never sent replacements even though the rep I emailed said they would.

[Guest]

I have a shitty CPU cooler, but it's almost silent.

 

My 970 is super-quiet too, and I rarely hear my PC unless I'm pushing the GPU hard.

[xc3ll]

I would say 1. You simply can not hear it in idle, even in a really quiet room. It is noticeable under full load, that's why i wouldn't say "ultra quiet". The only thing you can really hear is my nvidia reference card, which runs a around 60% fanspeed in games.

 

Things I've done to get it quiet:

- A quiet CPU-Cooler (Be Quiet shadow rock LP) at the cost of higher cpu temps

- Direct Airflow from a 120mm Intake-Fan to the gpu

- Reference Cooler to get the hot air out of the case

- Exhaust-Fan right above the gpu to exhaust more air around the gpu

- Semi-passive PSU

- All Case-Fans are controlled by speedfan to adjust speeds according to the gpu temps

- Modified Fan-Curves for CPU and GPU

- No HDD (even a 2,5" would be louder than all the other components)

 

So I can work and browse without having to hear fans at all and while I'm gaming it is silent enough to not really hear it over the ingame sounds. And if I play singleplayer I don't use headphones

 

edit: The downside of it is, that the temps are a bit high. 83°C on the GPU and 72°C on the CPU while gaming. 85°C on both under stress testing...

Edited September 10, 2015 by xc3ll