(near) Absolute Silence

26 May 2008 19:03

Well, I've finally done it. After all this "soon I'll" and "eventually" my PC is pretty much dead silent. The Corsair Power supply was the biggest impact, compared to the Thermaltake it cut the noise level by a good 5dB or so. I've also used an open 3-pin connector to hook up the 2-pin fan on my Asus graphics card to my fan controller, undervolting it to 7V. It still cools the card fine, and is silent. (That Asus TOP cooler really is quite impressive!)

The second 3870 in my system has currently been removed until my Arctic Accelero S1 rev 2 arrives. The stock cooler's irritating buzz was preventing the 'silent' tag be applied. I also used the opportunity to do some mild cable tidying. It'll be better after I put the second card back, but for now I think it's adequate.

So, this is what she looks like now. I'm posting this image, and the one that shows how I silenced my hard drives in the official PC building thread.

List of my blog entries

• Regarding recent upgrades... (06 Sep 2008)
• HD4870 mini-review (14 Aug 2008)
• Age of Conan (01 Jun 2008)
• Let's get something straight (21 Apr 2008)
• What I look like (25 Feb 2008)
• My Peggle addiction.. :( (05 Dec 2007)
• Damn it! (26 Oct 2007)
• Portal and the Orange Box (25 Oct 2007)
• Unreal Tournament 3 Demo Beta (18 Oct 2007)
• Quick praise of Thermalright (16 Oct 2007)
• PC Specifications (15 Sep 2007)

User comments

• by xChronox @ 23 Jun 2008 14:22

  oooh nice. The Freezer 7 Pro on my CPU reduced the noise the stock fan usually makes by about 5db, it's really silent even though I'm not that bothered about it, but the DVD drive makes me think it's the end of the world when it's loading something/burning a DVD :S
  
  Nice setup!

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