for all you computer geeks and silent heads

[joeymusicguy]

i built the current computer im using about 1 and a half years ago. during that entire duration, i had an ASUS peice of crap video card. At the time, it was a great buy! but over the months it got louder... and louder... and louder...

today i go to boot up the good ole pc and WHAMMO, my computer sounded like 50 helicopters flying around my control room

i jerked that sucker out (i knew this day would come, so i was prepared), and popped in my new video card.

gigabyte's silent pipe technology. its basicaly a gigantic heatsink that goes over THE ENTIRE VIDEO CARD

and now my computer is whisper quiet!!!

do your self a favor and buy this card!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125070

 

[Ermz]

I would if I weren't a gamer... it needs more juice

 

[Soundlurker]

Passive cooling video cards FTW. For me the best games don't require much GPU power, so it's no problem(... unless Starcraft2 and Diablo 3 require some fancy video card, which I doubt).

My computer's pretty quiet, too. The case has a 25cm Fan on one side (http://static.pcinpact.com/images/bd/news/54887-incognito-point-of-view-turbine-allulite-boitier.jpg) and inside I have a 14cm Evercool Red Scorpion working on 7v just above the northbridge heatsink (the stupid chipset gets too hot even at 30% overclock. ). I bought a set of brackets for my HDDs and they really work great (almost the same as these, only for 2 HDDs http://www.com-tra.de/img/p/NB_Swing_standard.jpg). Now pretty much all I'm hearing is the Fortron PSU and that's bareable as I've put my computer on the ground, at least 50cm away from me.

 

[Pedro Teixeira]

My computer produces almost zero noise. I have this on my cpu

and this on my 8800GT

My PSU is from Corsair, a really really silent one, and I only have 1 case fan, set at really low, so it's pumping out like 600RPM of air out of the case.... And I'm really really picky about noise... Before I did this it sounded like a washing machine... now you don't hear anything...

 

[Soundlurker]

Ah, glad I'm not the only one who hates noisy PCs. Normal people don't even notice a noisy PC unless the fan is really bust and sounds like a jet.

BTW, I really recommend getting of the HDD decouplers. You can get this one or the older ones (which I have) http://www.noiseblocker.de/en/produkt_entkoppler_nb-xswing.php for about 10 euro and besides being less noisy your hdds will be more safe from vibrations and maybe even cooler. Guess that sounds like an advertisment but honestly I think they are worth it.

 

[Pedro Teixeira]

Shadow, I have the Antec P182 case and the HDD mounts have something similar, I honestly barely hear my HDD... and there is no noise from the PC at all lol... only when doing heavy file transfer and stuff I can hear it just a little... but overall my whole PC sounds like.. nothing

 

[Soundlurker]

That's great. I plan on buying one of these new silent Corsair PSU but I have so many other things to buy and the fortron really isn't horrible. I'm glad I bought a nice case, because you only need to do so once