Never mind, it seems I took the wrong exit. Thanks anyway.

Howdy again! I'm working on a monster build :wink: Help me make it as quiet as it can be, given the constraints below :) - It is a watercooled TJ07. - It has a large window - From a "monster build" perspective, it puts cooling first and quietness a very close second - It has to look cool, so it is c...

Your temps are fine, lots of headroom. You can see mine here for a i7-960 @ 4.2 GHz -- those temps are more borderline -- still fine tuning the OC, but I would not expect my temps to go down on air cooling. http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/y372/pics34/fans2.png Thread: http://www.silentpcreview.c...

A couple of interesting things:

1) The Noctua turned out to be a better performer per dBA than the TriCool.

2) My case is thermally a better performer open than closed (by 2 degrees)

After all changes the machine went form 35.3 dBA to 31.2 dBA at 1m. With the Megahalems there was no change in the lows, but the highs came down by 12C. The performance of the Megahalems is being limited by the airflow in the case. With the back fan on high and the case open the temps drop another 3...

I kind of suspended the top fan and that solved the problem. That fan is now rather quiet. With the case open you get 30.3 dBA at 1m. With the case close it goes up to 30.7 dBA. Which is really weird. You can notice it without a meter as well. But the noise signature is much better than before. I su...

I do not understand how the top fan can be that much more noisy on the case than it was on the bench. May be the very tight fitting (no screws are holding it in place, just the fitting pressure) is causing the fan frame to resonate, or it and the case are working together to increase the noise level...

The PSU noise (not the woosh) is not very pronounced. But it is there. One thing is that this was recorded with my phone and they probably have circuitry to remove some level of noise and perhaps that is why the noise detail is not as sharp... or may be it is too low to record with it. Anyway. The c...

Hi, Here is the power supply noise. It is faint, but there is a weird sound mixed in with the hum -- kind of like the fan has a bit of a sore throat ;). If you can not hear it raise the volume up (I have to raise mine to the max). Sorry I do not have a real video camera. Click on the square below to...

Actually I saw a bunch of your articles -- all very helpful -- and the one I finally used for my decision was this one http://www.silentpcreview.com/article63-page2.html -- however it turned out that the Nexus was not available neither at Amz nor at NewEgg. So I went with what seemed to me the secon...

Yes, but it still strange because my 31 dB (900'ish rpm) at 1 foot is equivalent to 20.7 dB at one meter according to this site http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-distance.htm (1m = 3.28ft) That is a big difference from the advertised sound levels for these products. Edit: Noctua says 10db and ...

Actually I'll redo the measurements first because I think a few of the data points were captured in "A/fast" as opposed to "A/slow" which bumps dBA's by +1 or so.

Here is a chart of some of the measurements I did yesterday. http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/y372/pics34/sound.png I'll mount the fans (single fan on push) on the Megahalems and adjust speed to match 31dBA at 12 inches which seems to be my upper limit for fan noise -- should be around 900-950 rp...

I got all my Noctua fans and after some testing I have to say that I'm rather disappointed. Unfortunately I could not measure air flow. So I was limited to measure RPM's (digital tachometer), voltage, and noise. Turns out that RPM by RPM they put out about the same noise as the Antec Tricool. Here a...

I had a BK Precision 732 sound level meter laying around. Measured it at 1M from the case. I measured it in "A" mode and "Slow" at its lowest range "30-80 dB"



Curious... Why do you ask?

Just a quick update. I'm up to 4.2GHz @ 1.328V. Bumped a little after the validation ( http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1415797 ). Temps 40-45C at idle and 90C+ on load... still waiting on delivery of the new cooler to tame that down. Got the CPU fan further silenced down with a custom profi...

I'm curious as to why anyone would base a hardware purchasing decision on a purely arbitrary number farted out by windows. Especially when the noise/performance lists already exists in a meaningful format, ie performance in various games and benchmarks. Sorry if this seems harsh, but really.... I d...

I was wondering if anyone knows of a list which has current model (late 2009 + 2010) card configurations (card/sink/fan) with the respective dbA's (noise level) and Windows Experience Index. I know it is kind of silly, but... I was wondering how much I could raise my computer's Windows Experience In...

Working from home today and I have been using the computer at 4GHz (and fans on low) without any problems. Looking forward for the new fans and heatsink to arrive :D With current fans on high (but Zalman on low) http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/y372/pics34/TH.png With current fans on low (Zalman ...

Fairly optimistic now. Even with the Zalman and fans on low it is running at 4GHz and 1.3V at 88C on Prime 95 -- and 48C on idle

With the Megahalems I should be able to run cooler and/or quieter and/or perhaps hit 4.1 or 4.2 GHz

Yeah!

So I placed the order :) Did a lot more research on the suggested coolers: Noctua NH-D14, Thermalright HR-02, plus the Thermalright Silver Arrow. Almost went for each one of them at one time or another. In the end I decided to go with the Megahalems because, as you said, it is probably good enough t...

Hi Bonestone. Thanks a lot for your thoughtful post! I can try to explain a couple of the choices... The video cards -- the cards are almost 3 years old and were pilfered from my previous built. They are not expensive cards the one important thing they to do is to drive one 30" display at 2560x1600 ...

Howdy! I'm new here. I recently started to read all the great reviews/articles on this and others sites :) A month ago, when I started my build, I did very little research because I did not have as an objective overclocking or making a "silent" PC... but things change :D So my components are not ide...