Fed up with having a noisy PC
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 9:57 am
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)?
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)?