Help me...cant sleep with PC on.

Scrat

Scrat

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Ok... i'm sick of turning my PC off every night so i can sleep without the loud wurring of the fans 2foot away from my head, not to mention the lost hours of Folding time, and have decided to do some case upgrades.

Currently i have the bellow equipment, and would like to replace my el-cheapo case and fans with a Thermaltake – Matrix VX (P/N: VD3430BNA) w/ 430W PSU & 2 x 120mm silent Fans.

I don't have Aircon in my room so gets hot in summer, and i currently am using the standard AMD CPU Heatsink & Fan that came with the CPU, which i would like to replace with something quieter...maybe a Thermaltake Orb....are these any good?

Can you recommend any cooling upgrades/mods i can do, which will help make it quieter, yet still cool well without A/C?

My Parts:
AMD Athlon 64 3500+
GigaByte GA-K8NS Ultra-939 Ltd Ed
ATI Radeon GeCube 256Mb 9600XT
Generic RAM; 2x 1GB, 2x 512Mb DDR CL3 400Mhz PC3200 - Dual Channel
Western Digital 120Gb SATA 7200rpm 8MB,
Western Digital 80Gb SATA 7200rpm 8MB
LG CD-R/RW
LG MultiBurner

I've also just ordered a Thermaltake - HardCano 13 Fan controller
 
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If you want a silent pc consider using a water cooling system.Also changing the PSU fan with a silent one helps a lot.
 
By the time I get my morning coffee the system has been running for some time after a quick press of a button. That's with a case seeing large and quiet fans. But I don't prefer to leave a system unattended so it gets a break. Plus the board temps idle are about 31C. Water cooling does get expensive at times.
 
I'm not to concerned about price...of course i'd like to do it with out spending much.
I should say that i'd like to set it up as a web (ftp & http) server and get a vpn going on it for when im away on work....so would need to leave it running.
 
The one problem heard on liquid cooling at times is having a leak. If you don't get those on right or don't have enough room inside the case you can spend a lot on ??? When you do get them setup they will keep temps down no doubt. For a noisey or failed fans those come out just as easy as they went in and are far cheaper to add a few extras at any time. You still good air flow on the inside as well as for exhaust.
 
PC eye said:
The one problem heard on liquid cooling at times is having a leak. If you don't get those on right or don't have enough room inside the case you can spend a lot on ???
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i repair medical equipment(electronic & mechanical) for work.... so i'm pritty sure i'd be ok, considering no one has died yet from me not fixing a machine correctly :P

For a noisey or failed fans those come out just as easy as they went in and are far cheaper to add a few extras at any time. You still good air flow on the inside as well as for exhaust.
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....um, not quite sure where your going with that?
 
on my case you can fit 2 size fans, i was told the bigger fans are more quite-what i done with my other pc was fitted 4 bigger case fans which i plugged onto motherboard (2intake 2 exhaust)

it made alot of differnce it ment there was more air being pushed in so motherboard controlled the speeds of all case fans and cpu fan and slowed them down because of the greater air flow the bigger fans created.

but with my new set up i just got the cheap fans in running full throtle cos i could sleep through a world war :)
 
i've pulled out one of the 5'1/4 covers on my current pc and have a 80mm fan on the rear to help get the heat out... but no control on the case fan and have to keep the CPU Fan at max(running @ 41C with F@H).
I've ordered the HardCano13 fan controller and if i get the Matrix VX case i can use it to run it's 2 case fans at a lower rpm to limit the noise but still get good airflow due to the larger size fans.

The Thermaltake ORB CPU cooler runs at 17dB.... anyone got one of these? would it be sufficent for my AMD 64 3500+? anything better to get besides liquid cooling?
 
you thought about a passive cooler like the sythe ninja, does a pretty damn good job of cooling i believe. If its not quite enough you can add a 120mm fan to it to help out so if you pick up another silent 120mm it should be sorted :)
 
Scrat said:
i repair medical equipment(electronic & mechanical) for work.... so i'm pritty sure i'd be ok, considering no one has died yet from me not fixing a machine correctly :P
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Gee all I was doing was testing those refrigerant recovery systems for some time those years back. "ther goes a line! boom!. . clunk!. .pppzzzzz.... :eek: " watching parts fly by. That doesn't top caps going when you are testing security systems. "pow! zzzzzzsssttt.... poom! :rolleyes: lousy cheap caps! :P

Scrat said:
....um, not quite sure where your going with that?
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You have to get some serious air flow going there. The one I did order brought all temps down fast especially when adding two more 120mm fans onto the side cover. http://www.xoxide.com/aerocool-aeroengine-2-black.html

That was before getting a look at one with two 120mm front intake fans not one larger 140mm seen at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811129021
 
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