Fed up with having a noisy PC

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Mat Linnett
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Fed up with having a noisy PC

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Anybody have recommendations for cases and cooling?
I'm running a Phenom 940 Black Edition with an 8800GTS (one of the original 640MB ones) on a Foxconn Destroyer motherboard (god, these component names can be embarrassing).
They're sat inside a CoolerMaster Centurion 532 Black ATX Case which has served me well over the past couple of years, but I'm finally getting fed up of fan noise. There's a huge fan at the front and one at the back, as well as the CPU fan, GPU fan and the fans for my memory. I'm thinking I have too many fans.

So, does anyone here have any experience with silent cooling? Is liquid cooling easy enough these days or still too finicky to bother with? Am I looking at a huge investment, or can my system be made quiet at a reasonable price (say around £200)?
epicgoo
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Re: Fed up with having a noisy PC

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buy earplugs they are cheap
AmIdYfReAk
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Re: Fed up with having a noisy PC

Post by AmIdYfReAk »

check out the antec P182 or above, they are a sound deadened case with a ton of 120MM fans that can be on low for silent operation, or medium for just a hint of noise ( this is what i run my older 180 on ) and high for a noticeable output

the case can be had for a good price, and it will make a big diffrence for ya, but also make sure you enable Q-fan/PWM/Cool-n-Quiet on the computer, it REALLY helps out with the noise level's.

here is a link with the information:
http://www.antec.com/Believe_it/product.php?id=NQ==
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