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ever gotten all excited over your powerful new pc build then realized once
you started gaming on it that it sounds like a miniature wind tunnel in your
bedroom indeed excess computer noise has been an issue for a long time so it
isn't surprising that these days just about every major case and cooling
manufacturer including be quiet! who sponsored this video offers some kind of
quiet series but what makes them quieter
and what else can you do to cut down on noise let's start by looking at the
cases themselves many cases marketed as low noise add some kind of dampening
material to the inside usually foam the reason for this is pretty simple you
know how an empty room with hardwood floors makes your voice echo
when you say something but laying down some carpet has the opposite effect same
principle softer surfaces have a microscopic structure that allows them
to trap sound rather than reflecting it making foam a cost-effective and popular
choice well-built quiet cases will also often feature vibration dampening
features such as small rubber grommets that hold mechanical drives in place to
keep them from transferring vibration to your case's plastic or metal frame of
course you still need a way to push heat out of your case so oftentimes quiet
cases will come with you guessed it quiet fans computer fans are equipped
with a wide variety of different bearing types these are the little bits in the
center of the fan that actually enable it to spin you can learn more about them
here but here's a tldr common sleeve bearing fans are cheap for
manufacturers and can be reasonably quiet when they are new the problem is
that compared to ball bearing fans which are a bit more expensive and typically
louder they tend to wear out much faster and any worn out fan is a loud fan
trust me as you move up into higher end designs you can get to have your cake
and eat some of it too rifle bearing fans share
some design similarities with sleeves but they are better lubricated which
increases their longevity moving further up the food chain we find fluid dynamic
bearing fans that do a better job of keeping the lubricant between the fan
and the seal using high pressure this cuts down on friction making them much
quieter and finally you can even get magnetic bearings where the bearing
doesn't even touch the body of the fan kind of like a maglev train which makes
them insanely quiet but because those are also quite expensive you'll often
see quiet cases designed to use fewer larger fans as they give you lots of
airflow at lower rpms which helps them stay quieter than their smaller
counterparts which leads us perfectly to another way to cut down on fan noise if
a slower fan is quieter surely one that's off is even better some high
efficiency power supplies feature a 0 RPM fan mode which means the fan won't
spin up at all when the system is idle though it should be noted that once you
fire up a game the fan will need to spin so zero RPM mode isn't an excuse for a
manufacturer to cheap out on it the same is true for graphics cards which can
have as many as three or four fans on them and be a huge source of noise under
load so keep a lookout for gpus that are cooled well enough to not need the fans
all the time some can even play basic games with the fans off
crazy regardless of what kind of fan setup you have in your pc though keep an
eye out for components that allow you to set custom fan curves some motherboards
and cases include a fan controller so you won't be fighting a losing battle
against a pc that thinks it knows better than you how much cooling it needs
yeah right but what if you simply don't want to mess around with more fans than
you absolutely have to well it is possible to buy passive heatsinks for
your CPU and GPU that you don't strap fans to and therefore are totally silent
but not only can they limit your overclocking potential they can also be
really bulky and unsightly so you may want to pass on a case with a window if
you go this route root a more popular option is to liquid cool
your rig and simply place water blocks on your CPU and graphics card combined
with a radiator with quiet bearing fans the only thing to watch for here is the
quality of your pump so make sure to thoroughly check reviews as just like
cheap fans cheap pumps can wear out quickly and get very noisy and finally
keep in mind that even if your cooling system is quieter than a church mouse
it's still important to pick components like power supplies and graphics cards
that won't suffer from coil whine or electrical noise so make sure to read
reviews and see if a certain model you're looking at is susceptible to it
otherwise that high-pitched distraction might totally wipe out any acoustic
benefits you got from spending your entire tax refund on an RGB nickel
plated water block the be quiet! silent base 601 delivers
the perfect combination of maximum silence and an excellent usability for
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excellent air permeability with maximum silence extra thick insulation mats of
10 millimeters in the front top and sides and two pre-installed purewings
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neat interior it's ready for radiators up to 360 millimeters and it's got a
side panel made of tinted and tempered glass there's a three-year
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