PC Whirr - make more silent? :/

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I have a PC in my lounge which I remote to from another PC upstairs, so I have nothing connected to it. Someone in one on my previous posts mentioned the PC whirr which I didn't think was a huge issues ... but it turns out it does annoy me slightly ;) I won't be upset if I can't make it quieter - but how would I? It's only a Celeron D 1.6 so doesn't require water cooling and weird cooling devices as far as I know.

I also noticed it doesn't seem to have a system fan (fan on chassis ...) - if I bought one and installed would I get more noise because of a fan - or less because everything is running more effieciently?
 
Replace the PC fan on the CPU, with one with a bigger heatsink, PC fans get old and start making more noise.
 
If it really bothers you replace the cpu fan with a silent (below 20db) fan and if possible also the psu to a silent one.

The cpu fan will be approx R500, it makes a huge difference. I made my pc totally silent. In the beginning you couldn't hear anything, but now after a year you can hear it slightly if it is quiet at night
 
Adding a system fan is never going to make it more quiet.

Certain older Pentiums could survive with just a heat sink and no fan. Could be dangerous tough and I don't know if it applies to that CPU.

Next time I'm buy a silent PC too. Mine is loud enough to drown out other noise.
 
eh, My 120mm dual ballbearing system fan i can live with. My 3D rocketcooler pro on my CPU is nice & quiet. My motherboard chip and graphics card fans are allright, because I have a decent system fan.

The 120mm fan on Coolermaster Realpower 450w PSU on the other hand, HAS GOT TO GO!!! it keeps me awake at night while my mule is running :( I guess I have to do some surgery and replace the fan with a nice quiet dualballbearing one. Bloody mission though.

Next time ill just get one of those Zalman fanless cases. expensive, but oh so schweet :D
 
My pc developed a grinding noise yesterday and carried on all last night. Opened up the pc and it was the fan in the power supply making the noise - due to cat fur !! ;)
 
What about a Vibration / Noise Dampering kit? Would that be any good at all?
 
dotVIBE said:
You talkin' to me? It depends, when I game, I turn the fan up, when I sleep, I turn it way down.
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lol, sorry, no, question was aimed at Dolby.

Reason i'm asking is because depending on the CPU temp, the CPU fan might be running at a high speed in order to keep things cool, in which case a silent case fan might actually help.

When the CPU is below 60C (IIRC), the stock intel CPU fan is pretty damn quiet, but at soon as it hits 60, it automatically gets cranked up.

BTW, Dolby, you might also want to check the BIOS settings to make sure the setting to control the fan speed automatically is enabled, since the fan might be running at it's max speed while it's not necessary. (Usually called "PVM" something, cant remember, been a while).

EDIT: Also maybe see if you can figure out which fan exactly (if it is infact a fan) is making the noise, cos it might just be a noisy PSU fan.
 
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CPU runs at 16 degrees - I need a fan? :/
 
it runs one piece of software ... and it sits idle : does no work. Earlier when I did a little work on it, it went to 20 ... but generally it's 16.
 
PCs are cold in the winter. I overclock mine and make it run at 100% utilization to warm the room up.
 
Me too! Folding@home makes a great heater. In the cold months I miss my old CRT screen, the LCD simply can't heat the room the same way :)
 
Sselmrah said:
Me too! Folding@home makes a great heater. In the cold months I miss my old CRT screen, the LCD simply can't heat the room the same way :)
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lol. Also like folding, better cause than other projects I have seen.
 
PearlJam said:
If it really bothers you replace the cpu fan with a silent (below 20db) fan and if possible also the psu to a silent one.

The cpu fan will be approx R500, it makes a huge difference. I made my pc totally silent. In the beginning you couldn't hear anything, but now after a year you can hear it slightly if it is quiet at night
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The CPU fan in my machine (Celeron 2.67gigahertz) is starting to make a noise. I have vacuumed it out, but with little improvement.

I want to replace the fan with a model that is very quiet. I see fans for around R150 and less at The Prophecy Shop, but I don't know if they are CPU fans or how quiet they are or what. Do I have to pay "around R500" for a good, quiet CPU fan? Can someone point me in the right direction? Make. model, price, vendor.. How do I know if it will fit?

Any help appreciated, I am a greenhorn, but with the help of this forum I upped the RAM, installed a DVD writer and now the fan is next! Thanks.
 
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