Your best advice to make a dead silent pc ?
Posted by neskam@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 20 comments
My PC is starting to get old (5 3600 / 2060) and I want to upgrade to a 7800X3D or the new 9800X3D with the new 5000 series, but the one thing that bothered me the most was noise level on my rig, performance where always good but the noise really made me mad sometimes.
That's why I ask you, what would I prioritize for my next build to make it as silent as possible ! (I only use Air Cooler btw, no AIO)
Tips on fan, case, fan profile, anything, is greatly appreciated!!
Thank you!
Mrcod1997@reddit
Literally all noctua fans and use custom fan curves.
Mnemonicly@reddit
Fans aren't silent.
Mrcod1997@reddit
Noctua fans are about as close as you are gonna get without going fully passive. I highly doubt a properly tuned fan curve with Noctua fans would bother anyone but a literal sound technician.
iComplainAlot_@reddit
Noctua is overrated these days. Isnt the design really old by now?
Anyway i have a liquid freezer III 280 and 2x Arctic P14 and my pc is dead silent. Only thing you hear a little is the gpu fans spinning up.
Evening-Technology-7@reddit
I also use the Arctic fans! Got a rig full of them and I barely hear my PC
iComplainAlot_@reddit
Jup i had an ATX build before my sff build and that had 6 Arctic fans. Barely heard it.
GreenWins@reddit
You want to prioritize good quality silent fans. Everything else doesn’t matter. Liquid cooling isn’t actually more quiet. The loudest thing in your pc should be your graphic card and that shouldn’t make any noise unless you game.
Ignaply@reddit
well, custom water cooling can be more silent, especially with a water cooled GPU and lots of radiators. But is it really worth it?
iComplainAlot_@reddit
Recently built a meshlicious which i wanted as silent as possible. Built it with a liquid freezer III 280 and 2x Arctic P14 ARGB. Only thing i hear is the gpu fans when playing heavy games, and you barely hear those tbh. My advice, go for a silent aio like the liquid freezer III and go for 140mm fans. Those are quieter because they work less hard for the same results. Dont go crazy on fans, that will cause more noise, you need a balance between cooling and the amount of fans. In my case, 2 front fans blowing through the radiator is plenty. I used to have a full ATX build with 6 fans (also Arctic P14s and 1 p12) and that made way more noise then my current build. Which is sff, temps are almost the same.
ICEFIREZZZ@reddit
Case : Fractal design torrent. Fan curves adjusted at 10 - 30% taking case temp as measure.
Cpu cooler : bequiet dark rock pro 5 or the big noctua. Adjust curves according to your cpu TDP and the cooler cooling power. For example, for a ryzen 7900x a dark rock pro should have max of 70% spin when you reach 90c.
CPU paste : use thermal grizzly carbonaut thermal pad instead of paste. Thank me later.
Power supply : Corsair oversized. For example, 1000w when you really need 600.
GPU : MSI trio
This exact setup is the most silent PC I have ever built. You have to adjust the curves very well, and it's difficult to hear at all even under high load.
NedransVikingar@reddit
If you have enough room where you live, you can put the computer in a different room than where you sit. I know that's a luxury though.
I have a walk-in closet next to my office so I put my computer in there and ran the cables through the wall. The computer can make as much noise as it wants because I can't hear it through the wall.
xYeahboiix@reddit
Best advice honestly look into a set up where you can have it as far away from you as possible haha in a cupboard with some okay ventilation or through a wall what ever 😂 but I dunno more realistic a case with 200mm fans that has little to no obstruction so you can run em at a fixed low speed AIO so you can run it at a fixed low speed or I suppose a good air cooler with a well tuned fan curve and a GPU with a beefy cooler buuuuut at the end of the day it can all come crashing down when your GPU just comes with fucked coil whine you can do literally nothing as bout bar replace it tiss my system in a nutshell 6900xt red devil try looking into a GPU and get any solid info on if it will have coil whine ain't really a thing basically never seems to come up in reviews ect I think FK maybe it has somthing to do with ya house power/PSU as well basically seems like a crap shoot 🤷🏻♀️ I've tried different PSU gonna get a UPS see if that helps next 😂 I prey you don't cop the same treatment
zenetizen@reddit
once you make your pc quiet, good luck making gpu coil whine noise down.
Centilmen95@reddit
It's impossible to make your PC silent without passive cooling which is only used in very very specific situations. Closest you'll get is using Noctua and A Peerless Assassin.
InternationalDoor695@reddit
Put it in a steel box with spray foam
itchygentleman@reddit
streacom makes some nice fanless cases.
Hairy-Dare6686@reddit
Aside from putting the PC in a different room from your peripherals:
Get a case with good noise/cooling ratio (Airflow optimized cases like a Lancool 207 are better for this if you want a sitlent PC with a high end GPU while gaming)
Get a decent double tower air cooler (Peerless Assassin from thermal right is one of the best without costing an arm and an leg to buy)
Set custom fan curves with something like Fancontrol until you get a noise level you are comfortable with
Get a GPU with a good cooling solution / large heatsink
Potentially undervolt or even power limit your CPU/GPU to reduce their power consumption, less power consumption means their fan speeds can be lower meaning less noise
VoraciousGorak@reddit
Big, slow fans. Dual-tower coolers with only the center fan installed (my R5 7600 is cooled by a Peerless Assassin with only one fan.) Custom fan curves; don't be afraid to ride the lightning and see some high-ish temperatures before letting the fan curves spin up.
meteorprime@reddit
Fan curves.
I use icue to control my icue link fans, and I tell them to listen to GPU temps.
If my GPU is under 60C° all of my fans go down to 25% and I can’t even tell the computer is on its so quiet.
n7_trekkie@reddit
Easiest method: put it far away from you.
Little things can be using liquid cooling when possible, and using a case with good ventilation. Even though all the holes seems counter intuitive to reducing noise, it actually lets the fans spin slower for the same cooling performance