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okay so I might have done goofed when I did my last Media Center PC upgrade

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thing because while I did put fan

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control in place using the Noctua industrial 2000 RPM fans definitely

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resulted in um louder Just even idle

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noise levels from that computer than I consider uh good enough for a media

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center so I'm going to show you guys we'll do like a baseline reading here

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and then turn on the computer even from from the listening position my not super

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exceptional sound level meter is going to be able to pick up a difference so go

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ahead have a look at the screen and then I'm going to turn on the

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computer all right so there's our Baseline reading I'm going to go ahead

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and turn my media center PC

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on so even with fan control enabled you

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you can see that I done kind of goofed on the configuration of this I set it up

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with noct to industrial fans and even though I went with the 2,000 RPM ones

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and I do have them on fan controllers

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it's not good enough and there's still a noticeable difference even from this far

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away from the computer on the couch here where I would typically be sitting to

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watch a show or a movie or something um

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so something needs to be done today we'll be trying to address this because

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even at idol it is pretty loud and actually noticeable over a movie

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especially because I have kids upstairs and I can't like you know just crank the

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sub to overpower

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more so of course you can always put quieter fans into a system in this case

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we're going to be using noa's new nfs2 a

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so these are the replacements for the bees and the main Improvement seems to

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be these like anti- stalling bumps on

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the blades so um yeah okay cool at any

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rate these run at a mere 800 RPM without

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the low noise adapter inside and 600 RPM

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with the adapter so I'm planning to use the adapters which means we need to find

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out if that's having an adverse effect on our temperatures cuz if you guys

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remember the reason I put fans into this cabinet in the first place was what was

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that the temps of the system inside were so high that it was thermal throttling

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anyway so we're getting a baseline here our GPU runs at a power percentage of

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about 68 at its 80° cap it's actually

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more important to look at that power percentage in a benchmark like this

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because that tells us how much it's throttling back and then our CPU tops

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out around 75° on the little graph on the right so we're going to go ahead

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we're going to swap these fans and we're going to find out how much of an impact

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that has on temps but first I need to

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get this cat off my

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lap he's like surely you misunderstood I

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would like to sit here and your pushing is not

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helping

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there we go there we go and I need this

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little man uhuh thank you sir all right

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let's shut this baby down and tear her apart

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again there we go there we go what are

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you going to take a picture of are you going to help me fix the computer a

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little man mhm d i just already fixed it

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you already fixed it what we didn't do anything anything yet I didn't do

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anything yet can you take this one for me yeah okay how about this one can you

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put that somewhere safe okay you go put those somewhere safe yeah I'm going to

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put them on the table I'm going to put these on the table just get this all

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unplugged this is a good chance to have a look at how dusty it's gotten in here

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not too bad actually even though I have my filter

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and it's not ideal position on the

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exhaust side of these fans they're they're not bad at

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all all right let's uh let's get to

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swapping out all those fans my camera person is being assaulted

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here little man do you want to open one uhh

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P there fans in there yeah see the fan

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are you going to take out all the pieces pieces let take out all the pieces you

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see another fan all done okay how many

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fans do we have now have one two three four awesome four

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time to install them now right yeah okay are you going to help me mhm I am going

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to help you you took off all the

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screws you took off all the screws Dad

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yeah we got to take out the old fans before we can put in the new ones these

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are Brown do you think the brown one looks nice or do you think the black one

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looks nice uh Brown looks nice I don't

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know how many people you'll find to agree with you but you're entitled to

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your opinion can you pass me a screwdriver

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sweetie uhhuh I'm going to get the orange one for you okay great thank

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you um honey the orange screwdriver is over here oh

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dang dang it there's your screwdriver thanks

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sweetie

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oh I think the mesh is the problem uhoh

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that could be really bad then a

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finally there we go there we go all

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right I guess we should clean this out since we're in here

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anyway I'm I'm going to put the fans in

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okay hey did you put all the fans in while I was gone yeah oh did you put the

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screws in put the screws in please let's vacuum it out first okay now don't

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vacuum with my foot okay I won't vacuum your foot okay why would you think I

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would vacuum your foot because you don't have the vacuum my foot

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okay okay I'm going to have to get those back out from under there oh wow your

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arms are small okay can I have two more

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screws yeah you want two more screws here oh thank you I'm going to puty

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screw dad all right you can help me with the screws on the next one okay does

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this one goes in look I put for n

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screws

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okay can I have that mesh now yeah

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that's a fan not a mesh this one

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yeah thank

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you are you screwing in the nuts

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yeah I scw what in there okay should we

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replace two more fans all right I'm

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going to need your help with these ones okay I want you to reach in here and get

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the screws while I undo them from the back okay yeah see that one this one do

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you see them moving yeah I see the moving you got to grab those ones grab

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those ones to now can you help me find

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them please sure just a

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sec okay honey these ones I'm pushing them

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out see there

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thanks you're

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welcome I got all GL good job how many

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do you have I don't want anymore you don't want anymore no three then one two three oh

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you should have one more you should have four you see one right

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there thank dad this one goes in there

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all right I need you to uh yeah I need you to hand me one of those new fans mhm

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and then we're going to go ahead and install those in the back uhhuh oh I

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think the uh I think the screws actually go in from the other side yeah it's

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going to go in this way way this

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way Mom I'm playing with

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Daddy hey Dad hey hey you what I doing

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how'd you get back here because I got back here I was surprised oh you brought

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the fan yeah I brought the fan from you

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oh thank you okay I'm going to put it

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inside o n n o

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and so here's the progress we've made so far we've got the new fans installed in

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the bottom with the filter so these are the intakes right under the system and

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then we've got the two new fans also other two new fans installed at the back

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as exhausts so now all that's left to do

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is take the Y cables that I had four so

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these ones plug in each of these sets of fans and then plug them right into the

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back of the computer because if you

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didn't see my last Media Center upgrade

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Vlog I can show you guys the way I have it set up at the

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back of the system

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whoops is with either MOX power out to

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that splitter or just two four pin fan

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controllable connectors just coming Direct off of extensions from the

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motherboard so that's what I'm going to be plugging them into okay move your

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butt little man move butt okay we're going to get it silent

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for sure this time okay little man we're almost done

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okay I'm going to plug in our

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HDMI HDMI and then our

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USB must be Ethernet

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Ethernet oops oops o no we're not going to plug in the oops

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let me just see I think we're good yep I

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think we're good yep I think we're good I think we're good all right back inside

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we go that antenna needs to come up close

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to the front so that it gets a signal all right oh just

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wait okay let's plug in uh let's plug in

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this oh I wait little man oh well that's

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already quieter that's already quiet oh we didn't plug this in

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yet so so we've got our uh Core i5 4570

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processor in there to close this we've got our GTX 980 16 gigs of RAM we got to

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close it Dad we got the close it there you go sweetie

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thanks and um um let's go ahead and set these a

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little bit lower cuz these fans might actually run lower than 600 RPM on

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occasion I don't want an alarm to go off so I guess we'll leave the fan

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control on there we go we can see what speed our fans are running

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at and let's reboot and find out if our

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temps are still

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okay much quieter wow that made a big

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difference

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phone all right so let's um let's why don't we start by getting our sound

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reading then and then uh and then we'll

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go ahead and get our temperature reading okay hun can I get you to go in the

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other room so we can get our sound reading yes I love you very much but

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you're

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loud that's kind of bizarre that's lower than our baseline from before well let's

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not put too much stock in in what the uh sound level meter says at any rate it's

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definitely way quieter like I can barely hear it from here so let's just find out

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if it adversely affected temperatures all right so there we have it it's

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results time uh pretty much what I expected so our CPU temps are a little

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bit higher you can see there's one hovering around 77° there and our power

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percentage on our GPU is a little bit lower but this is all very very

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reasonable levels and for how much quieter it is I will take that tradeoff

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every single time like it went from being obviously noticeable over the

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sound of a movie to I can hardly hear it even without

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anything else playing so there you go

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yay lower RPM yay using the right fans for the job guys thanks for watching

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