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So I am going to college next year, and I am planning on bringing my desktop.

 

The problem is that my current rig makes a hellva lot a noise and I don't want to piss of my future roommate.  So I am embarking on a mission to make it as quiet as possible.

 

I am a dedicated BOINCer, so my CPU and 2 GPUs are always at 100% usage. I'm open to switching cases, cpu/gpu coolers, fans. Specs below

 

i5 3570k

h100 liquid cooler

660ti with reference cooler & 7770 with reference cooler.

case: Coolermaster HAF 922

fans: 2 coolermaster 200mm & 4 corsair SP fans 120mm

 

is a passive cooling remotely possible?

HELP PLS!!!

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”    -Henry Ford

 

Please do BOINC. no matter how small a contribution it can make a difference. 

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Replace all of the fans with Noctua fans and get a fan controller. Passive is not possible here. If there is anything Noctua is good for, it's silence. Also, get a Fractal Design Define R4. Also, mount an Arctic Accelro Extreme III/TT II on the 660 Ti and an Arctic Accelro S1+ on the 7770 with a Noctua fan.

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So I am going to college next year, and I am planning on bringing my desktop.

 

The problem is that my current rig makes a hellva lot a noise and I don't want to piss of my future roommate.  So I am embarking on a mission to make it as quiet as possible.

 

I am a dedicated BOINCer, so my CPU and 2 GPUs are always at 100% usage. I'm open to switching cases, cpu/gpu coolers, fans. Specs below

 

i5 3570k

h100 liquid cooler

660ti with reference cooler & 7770 with reference cooler.

case: Coolermaster HAF 922

fans: 2 coolermaster 200mm & 4 corsair SP fans 120mm

 

is a passive cooling remotely possible?

HELP PLS!!!

Full custom water cooling loop.  There's no way you are going to passively cool any of that hardware.

Desktop: Intel Core i7-6700K, ASUS Z170-A, ASUS STRIX GTX 1080 Ti, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 512 GB Samsund 840 Pro, Seasonic X series 650W PSU, Fractal Design Define R4, 2x5TB HDD

Hypervisor 1: Intel Xeon E5-2630L, ASRock EPC612D8, 16GB DDR4 ECC RAM, Intel RT3WB080 8-port RAID controller plus expansion card, Norco RPC-4020 case, 20x2TB WD Red HDD

Other spare hypervisors: Dell Poweredge 2950, HP Proliant DL380 G5

Laptops: ThinkPads, lots of ThinkPads

 

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Easiest way: take a pistol and aim to your CPU :P

Hard way: Buy a huge custom loop and some Noctuas, and make them run at 7v, that is silent as heaven.

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2 words will help you a lot. NOCTUA FANS

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Is it just me or is Grammar slowly becoming extinct on LTT? 

 

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first off, change all your fans to Noctua fans.  Get a NZXT G10 water cooler to help lower the noise of your GPU, or use an Asus DCU or DCU 2 GPU cooler.   I would also switch cases to the Fractal Design Define R4 if possible because that will lower the noise but if you take of a side panel the noise will come right back. 

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Don't bring a desktop to college, with the money you'll spend upgrading your desktop, buy a decent gaming laptop.

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If you would like some more appealing fans, that are still quiet, the cougar dual x fans are a good choice too :)

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Don't bring a desktop to college, with the money you'll spend upgrading your desktop, buy a decent gaming laptop.

Didn't you read at the top he uses this rig for mining, a laptop would do terrible at this.

Case: NZXT Phantom 410 | Cpu: i7 3820 at 4.3 Ghz | Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4 | Gpu: XFX hd 7970 Ghz 1100Mhz/1600Mhz | Ram: Crucial BallistiX Elite 16GB 2x8 Gb 1866 Mhz


SSD's: 2x Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120 GB in RAID 0 | HDD:Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200 Rpm


Cpu cooler: Corsair H100i with SP120's | Psu: Corsair TX 850W | My monitors: 3x BenQ 24"  GL2460 = Eyefinity

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Didn't you read at the top he uses this rig for mining, a laptop would do terrible at this.

I did read it and what I am saying is that mining at school... yeah no, not a good idea.

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Didn't you read at the top he uses this rig for mining, a laptop would do terrible at this.

 

He uses his rig for BOINC, which is not mining.

Folding@Home | BOINC

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X + Celsius S36 GPU: ASUS TUF RTX3080 

MB: ASRock x470 Taichi RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4-2666 32GB 

CASE: Fractal Design Define 7 Panda STORAGE: WD Black SN770 2TB + WD Red Pro 6TB

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oooh sry didn't know that  :mellow:

Case: NZXT Phantom 410 | Cpu: i7 3820 at 4.3 Ghz | Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4 | Gpu: XFX hd 7970 Ghz 1100Mhz/1600Mhz | Ram: Crucial BallistiX Elite 16GB 2x8 Gb 1866 Mhz


SSD's: 2x Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120 GB in RAID 0 | HDD:Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200 Rpm


Cpu cooler: Corsair H100i with SP120's | Psu: Corsair TX 850W | My monitors: 3x BenQ 24"  GL2460 = Eyefinity

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So I am going to college next year, and I am planning on bringing my desktop.

 

The problem is that my current rig makes a hellva lot a noise and I don't want to piss of my future roommate.  So I am embarking on a mission to make it as quiet as possible.

 

I am a dedicated BOINCer, so my CPU and 2 GPUs are always at 100% usage. I'm open to switching cases, cpu/gpu coolers, fans. Specs below

 

i5 3570k

h100 liquid cooler

660ti with reference cooler & 7770 with reference cooler.

case: Coolermaster HAF 922

fans: 2 coolermaster 200mm & 4 corsair SP fans 120mm

 

is a passive cooling remotely possible?

HELP PLS!!!

 

Move to a quiet case, something like the Corsair Obsidan 550D or Fractal Design Define R4. Switch cpu cooling to an air tower like the Noctua NHU-12S or NH-U14S. The 550D is as quiet as the R4. I doubt there would be a need to add or replace fans. Keeping the number of intakes and exhausts to a minimum helps to contain noise. Removing unused drive bays would provide for better air intake which should help cooling the gpu.

80+ ratings certify electrical efficiency. Not quality.

 

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Don't bring a desktop to college, with the money you'll spend upgrading your desktop, buy a decent gaming laptop.

Gaming and laptop don't belong in the same sentence.

Desktop: Intel Core i7-6700K, ASUS Z170-A, ASUS STRIX GTX 1080 Ti, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 512 GB Samsund 840 Pro, Seasonic X series 650W PSU, Fractal Design Define R4, 2x5TB HDD

Hypervisor 1: Intel Xeon E5-2630L, ASRock EPC612D8, 16GB DDR4 ECC RAM, Intel RT3WB080 8-port RAID controller plus expansion card, Norco RPC-4020 case, 20x2TB WD Red HDD

Other spare hypervisors: Dell Poweredge 2950, HP Proliant DL380 G5

Laptops: ThinkPads, lots of ThinkPads

 

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Those reference coolers will make noise, a lot of it.

cpu: intel i5 4670k @ 4.5ghz Ram: G skill ares 2x4gb 2166mhz cl10 Gpu: GTX 680 liquid cooled cpu cooler: Raijintek ereboss Mobo: gigabyte z87x ud5h psu: cm gx650 bronze Case: Zalman Z9 plus


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Move to a quiet case, something like the Corsair Obsidan 550D or Fractal Design Define R4. Switch cpu cooling to an air tower like the Noctua NHU-12S or NH-U14S. The 550D is as quiet as the R4. I doubt there would be a need to add or replace fans. Keeping the number of intakes and exhausts to a minimum helps to contain noise. Removing unused drive bays would provide for better air intake which should help cooling the gpu.

Corsair fans  and reference coolers are pretty loud. The OP has SP120's which are darn loud.

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