Now, with extra noise!
Nov. 14th, 2005 07:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
c9I hate that I get what I pay for.
I bought this:
But I should have bought this:
The new case works just fine, and is better than the old one, but it's not quiet by any stretch of the imagination. Damnit. I specifically wanted a quiet case, but the cheap ass in me chose to believe that the case I chose was quiet and cheap. Parts of it are quiet, but the insane cooling power it has makes it noisy in other ways. The huge vent in the side lets lots of cool air in for the CPU, but it lets lots of whirring out. The shinier one is only $50 more expensive too. Oh well.
Someday I'll learn.
I bought this:
But I should have bought this:
The new case works just fine, and is better than the old one, but it's not quiet by any stretch of the imagination. Damnit. I specifically wanted a quiet case, but the cheap ass in me chose to believe that the case I chose was quiet and cheap. Parts of it are quiet, but the insane cooling power it has makes it noisy in other ways. The huge vent in the side lets lots of cool air in for the CPU, but it lets lots of whirring out. The shinier one is only $50 more expensive too. Oh well.
Someday I'll learn.
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Date: 2005-11-15 11:11 am (UTC)Easy to fix: PSU, case fans. Get a better PSU with a temperature-sensitive fan (you already did this! Go you!). Replace case fans with low-rotation (under 2000rpm) larger (120mm) fans, use rubber grommets or rubber "screws" to affix them to the case.
Moderately difficult to fix: CPU, GPU, chipset fans. These are tricky because a) they cost for quality, b) they usually involve removing the stock heatsink, which usually involves mucking around with thermal compound (not fun), c) there are physical space problems with some fans/heatsinks. If you can get by with just a heatsink on your GPU and chipset, go for it.
Hard to fix: hard drives. There's not a lot you can do about a noisy hard drive. Rubber grommets can help reduce the "clicking" sound from disk accesses but don't do much for rotational noise (except vibration issues). Quiet hard drives are frequently more expensive than less quiet models and are a pain to replace because you've got to move data around.
I had an excellent CPU cooler (Nexus brand, great big honking green thing) that was perfectly silent in my old machine... I bought a cheap cooler with a 92mm fan for my new machine and it totally sucks... I should learn your lesson too.