okay so I might have done goofed when I did my last Media Center PC upgrade
thing because while I did put fan
control in place using the Noctua industrial 2000 RPM fans definitely
resulted in um louder Just even idle
noise levels from that computer than I consider uh good enough for a media
center so I'm going to show you guys we'll do like a baseline reading here
and then turn on the computer even from from the listening position my not super
exceptional sound level meter is going to be able to pick up a difference so go
ahead have a look at the screen and then I'm going to turn on the
computer all right so there's our Baseline reading I'm going to go ahead
and turn my media center PC
on so even with fan control enabled you
you can see that I done kind of goofed on the configuration of this I set it up
with noct to industrial fans and even though I went with the 2,000 RPM ones
and I do have them on fan controllers
it's not good enough and there's still a noticeable difference even from this far
away from the computer on the couch here where I would typically be sitting to
watch a show or a movie or something um
so something needs to be done today we'll be trying to address this because
even at idol it is pretty loud and actually noticeable over a movie
especially because I have kids upstairs and I can't like you know just crank the
sub to overpower
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more so of course you can always put quieter fans into a system in this case
we're going to be using noa's new nfs2 a
so these are the replacements for the bees and the main Improvement seems to
be these like anti- stalling bumps on
the blades so um yeah okay cool at any
rate these run at a mere 800 RPM without
the low noise adapter inside and 600 RPM
with the adapter so I'm planning to use the adapters which means we need to find
out if that's having an adverse effect on our temperatures cuz if you guys
remember the reason I put fans into this cabinet in the first place was what was
that the temps of the system inside were so high that it was thermal throttling
anyway so we're getting a baseline here our GPU runs at a power percentage of
about 68 at its 80° cap it's actually
more important to look at that power percentage in a benchmark like this
because that tells us how much it's throttling back and then our CPU tops
out around 75° on the little graph on the right so we're going to go ahead
we're going to swap these fans and we're going to find out how much of an impact
that has on temps but first I need to
get this cat off my
lap he's like surely you misunderstood I
would like to sit here and your pushing is not
helping
there we go there we go and I need this
little man uhuh thank you sir all right
let's shut this baby down and tear her apart
again there we go there we go what are
you going to take a picture of are you going to help me fix the computer a
little man mhm d i just already fixed it
you already fixed it what we didn't do anything anything yet I didn't do
anything yet can you take this one for me yeah okay how about this one can you
put that somewhere safe okay you go put those somewhere safe yeah I'm going to
put them on the table I'm going to put these on the table just get this all
unplugged this is a good chance to have a look at how dusty it's gotten in here
not too bad actually even though I have my filter
and it's not ideal position on the
exhaust side of these fans they're they're not bad at
all all right let's uh let's get to
swapping out all those fans my camera person is being assaulted
here little man do you want to open one uhh
P there fans in there yeah see the fan
are you going to take out all the pieces pieces let take out all the pieces you
see another fan all done okay how many
fans do we have now have one two three four awesome four
time to install them now right yeah okay are you going to help me mhm I am going
to help you you took off all the
screws you took off all the screws Dad
yeah we got to take out the old fans before we can put in the new ones these
are Brown do you think the brown one looks nice or do you think the black one
looks nice uh Brown looks nice I don't
know how many people you'll find to agree with you but you're entitled to
your opinion can you pass me a screwdriver
sweetie uhhuh I'm going to get the orange one for you okay great thank
you um honey the orange screwdriver is over here oh
dang dang it there's your screwdriver thanks
sweetie
oh I think the mesh is the problem uhoh
that could be really bad then a
finally there we go there we go all
right I guess we should clean this out since we're in here
anyway I'm I'm going to put the fans in
okay hey did you put all the fans in while I was gone yeah oh did you put the
screws in put the screws in please let's vacuum it out first okay now don't
vacuum with my foot okay I won't vacuum your foot okay why would you think I
would vacuum your foot because you don't have the vacuum my foot
okay okay I'm going to have to get those back out from under there oh wow your
arms are small okay can I have two more
screws yeah you want two more screws here oh thank you I'm going to puty
screw dad all right you can help me with the screws on the next one okay does
this one goes in look I put for n
screws
okay can I have that mesh now yeah
that's a fan not a mesh this one
yeah thank
you are you screwing in the nuts
yeah I scw what in there okay should we
replace two more fans all right I'm
going to need your help with these ones okay I want you to reach in here and get
the screws while I undo them from the back okay yeah see that one this one do
you see them moving yeah I see the moving you got to grab those ones grab
those ones to now can you help me find
them please sure just a
sec okay honey these ones I'm pushing them
out see there
thanks you're
welcome I got all GL good job how many
do you have I don't want anymore you don't want anymore no three then one two three oh
you should have one more you should have four you see one right
there thank dad this one goes in there
all right I need you to uh yeah I need you to hand me one of those new fans mhm
and then we're going to go ahead and install those in the back uhhuh oh I
think the uh I think the screws actually go in from the other side yeah it's
going to go in this way way this
way Mom I'm playing with
Daddy hey Dad hey hey you what I doing
how'd you get back here because I got back here I was surprised oh you brought
the fan yeah I brought the fan from you
oh thank you okay I'm going to put it
inside o n n o
and so here's the progress we've made so far we've got the new fans installed in
the bottom with the filter so these are the intakes right under the system and
then we've got the two new fans also other two new fans installed at the back
as exhausts so now all that's left to do
is take the Y cables that I had four so
these ones plug in each of these sets of fans and then plug them right into the
back of the computer because if you
didn't see my last Media Center upgrade
Vlog I can show you guys the way I have it set up at the
back of the system
whoops is with either MOX power out to
that splitter or just two four pin fan
controllable connectors just coming Direct off of extensions from the
motherboard so that's what I'm going to be plugging them into okay move your
butt little man move butt okay we're going to get it silent
for sure this time okay little man we're almost done
okay I'm going to plug in our
HDMI HDMI and then our
USB must be Ethernet
Ethernet oops oops o no we're not going to plug in the oops
let me just see I think we're good yep I
think we're good yep I think we're good I think we're good all right back inside
we go that antenna needs to come up close
to the front so that it gets a signal all right oh just
wait okay let's plug in uh let's plug in
this oh I wait little man oh well that's
already quieter that's already quiet oh we didn't plug this in
yet so so we've got our uh Core i5 4570
processor in there to close this we've got our GTX 980 16 gigs of RAM we got to
close it Dad we got the close it there you go sweetie
thanks and um um let's go ahead and set these a
little bit lower cuz these fans might actually run lower than 600 RPM on
occasion I don't want an alarm to go off so I guess we'll leave the fan
control on there we go we can see what speed our fans are running
at and let's reboot and find out if our
temps are still
okay much quieter wow that made a big
difference
phone all right so let's um let's why don't we start by getting our sound
reading then and then uh and then we'll
go ahead and get our temperature reading okay hun can I get you to go in the
other room so we can get our sound reading yes I love you very much but
you're
loud that's kind of bizarre that's lower than our baseline from before well let's
not put too much stock in in what the uh sound level meter says at any rate it's
definitely way quieter like I can barely hear it from here so let's just find out
if it adversely affected temperatures all right so there we have it it's
results time uh pretty much what I expected so our CPU temps are a little
bit higher you can see there's one hovering around 77° there and our power
percentage on our GPU is a little bit lower but this is all very very
reasonable levels and for how much quieter it is I will take that tradeoff
every single time like it went from being obviously noticeable over the
sound of a movie to I can hardly hear it even without
anything else playing so there you go
yay lower RPM yay using the right fans for the job guys thanks for watching
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