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by ThibWay
Mon Nov 28, 2011 2:19 am
Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
Topic: Reducing noise for music (Asus Xonar STX ^^)
Replies: 15
Views: 9527

Re: Reducing noise for music (Asus Xonar STX ^^)

Hello, Sorry I forgot to take a picture before putting everything back in place, I'll do it later, anyways it's a bit of a mess the PSU is not modular and I zipped the 120mm case fan... I was wondering something : i have a maximal permanent usage of 20% of the CPU, as I said it's not warm anywhere, ...
by ThibWay
Sat Nov 26, 2011 1:31 am
Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
Topic: Reducing noise for music (Asus Xonar STX ^^)
Replies: 15
Views: 9527

Re: Reducing noise for music (Asus Xonar STX ^^)

Hey :D ! Everything's working, I had a lot lot of troubles HDD troubles (primary and boot), RAM misplaced :lol: , but it's now all in place I just have to cut the case fan. Still some concerns though : 1) I can touch my graphis card but only for a few seconds. I tried stressing it a bit, it can read...
by ThibWay
Fri Nov 25, 2011 4:36 am
Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
Topic: Reducing noise for music (Asus Xonar STX ^^)
Replies: 15
Views: 9527

Re: Reducing noise for music (Asus Xonar STX ^^)

Try this PSU calculator: http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp BTW there are silicone grommets you can buy from Antec as spare parts which would further reduces HDD noise over the stock hard rubber ones: http://store.antec.com/Product/accessory-spare_parts/rubber-grommets-harddrive-p...
by ThibWay
Thu Nov 24, 2011 2:57 am
Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
Topic: Reducing noise for music (Asus Xonar STX ^^)
Replies: 15
Views: 9527

Re: Reducing noise for music (Asus Xonar STX ^^)

Hey, I received my graphic card but I can't use it yet because as you know I've removed the heatsink and I'm waiting for the new one :mrgreen: . It was really fast by the way, I've received 2 items in only 2 days :o . I actually have another question : can anyone tell me or teach me how to calculate...
by ThibWay
Mon Nov 21, 2011 1:10 am
Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
Topic: Reducing noise for music (Asus Xonar STX ^^)
Replies: 15
Views: 9527

Re: Reducing noise for music (Asus Xonar STX ^^)

Thank you again, everything's almost solved :mrgreen: I won’t actually change the PSU unless I think there’s too much noise, I believe the main noise was coming from : bad 120mm, CPU heatskink and GPU (oh dear :P). But if I have to I'll take the hybrid Seasonic 560W ^^. I couldn’t separate 120mm cas...
by ThibWay
Sun Nov 20, 2011 9:26 am
Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
Topic: Reducing noise for music (Asus Xonar STX ^^)
Replies: 15
Views: 9527

Re: Reducing noise for music (Asus Xonar STX ^^)

Ohh sorry I forgot to say : I need Molex for my soundcard and I'm keeping my 2 HDD because they are almost inaudible, they are 1TB WD Caviar Green I think.
Plus If I wanted an SSD it would be 160 GB because I'd want to store my music as well :mrgreen: .
by ThibWay
Sun Nov 20, 2011 9:19 am
Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
Topic: Reducing noise for music (Asus Xonar STX ^^)
Replies: 15
Views: 9527

Re: Reducing noise for music (Asus Xonar STX ^^)

Thank you all :D ! @markanini Hmm sorry but to me you are proposing me a drastical solution, I forgot to say I don't want to buy the equivalent of a new PC that is to say not more than 200€ would be good :P ! I'll definitely try undervolting my CPU, gosh this is going to be a time-wasting and hard o...
by ThibWay
Sun Nov 20, 2011 6:14 am
Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
Topic: Reducing noise for music (Asus Xonar STX ^^)
Replies: 15
Views: 9527

Reducing noise for music (Asus Xonar STX ^^)

Hello :), I bought this PC when I was in holidays (same CPU but a HD5770 at the time) : http://www.materiel.net/ordinateur/materiel-net-arkane-71508.html - READ underlined words + see links if in a hurry - I really like games with detailed graphics (as long as the gameplay is good as well :mrgreen: ...