Silence your PC - How To
In this web page you will have the opportunity to learn how you can cool your PC at the same time that you keep low noise levels.
With the increase in temperatures on the PC, the tendency is always to
increase the number of fans to increase airflow in the box. The
drawback is that this increase in fans usually be related to the
increase of noise generated within the computer casing. For some users,
as players and enthusiasts, the noise problem has never been - but many
people use computers to work from day to day and there are those who
use in your room. In such situations, the noise generated by computers
is always too much of what you want, and it is these people that this
article is dedicated.
To totally silence a PC can be something too expensive. That is what we want with this article show how much you can significantly reduce the noise from your computer without losing all the money the grant of leave.
CPU Cooler
With the increasing speed of processors, also increases the need for a more powerful cooler to cool. The most problematic are the recent Intel Pentium4 and Pentium D for Socket 775 and AMD FX and X2, which have coolers of origin too noisy for the desired. It is a bit ungrateful one person give more than 1000 euros for a processor (such as AMD FX-57) and receive a cooler that is constantly generating a noise unbearable.
Fortunately there are several alternatives to the market coolers of origin, manufactured by brand rather conceituadas in its performance and silent compared to coolers of origin. These brands are the Cooler Master, Zalman, Thermalright, SwifTech, Artic Cooling, Thermaltake, among many others.
In Bits & Bytes last week tried, for example, a Cu Zalman 7700, a cooler that uses a fan of 120mm silent - but there are many other similar models. One is the new CNPS9500, a cooler-shaped wind tunnel, with an extremely silent fan of 92mm, which generates about 25dBs in normal mode. There are other excellent alternatives in the market such as the Thermalright XP-90 in copper, which has the advantage of being able to place the type of fan we want, whether it be silent, noisy or adjustable. This type of coolers around 40 euros and can be found in many computer stores.
Graphic Card Cooler
After silenciarmos the cooler processor, sometimes we have a very irritating noise and acute, which previously did not reparávamos because this is muffled by the previous cooler processor.
If the graphics card for low-end or average, is often found in coolers very beautiful, full of effects, but that unfortunately are accompanied by fans of poor quality and extremely noisy.
In the case of high-end cards, usually the use of noisy fans something is due to the fact that the GPU today's furnaces are real and almost as aquecerem (sometimes more) as a processor.
Fortunately there are already several coolers for all kinds of graphics cards. The most famous are the Zalman V700 that are compatible with almost all the graphics market, and the Artic Cooling. A good example is the case with Nvidia GeForce 6800GT, which have a very noisy cooler. By putting up an Artic Cooling NV5 (particularly for this generation of cards, NV40), it was possible to very significantly lower the noise and even the temperature to almost 10 ° C in some cases.
For the more demanding, there is a range of Zalman ZM80, a cooler totally passive and silent, but that should not be used in high-end cards. This type of coolers rarely passes of 30 euros and is the venda in major houses of computers across the country.
Northbridge
In spite of today there are many motherboards with cooler liabilities in Northbridge, unfortunately there are still many with cooler liabilities, which is always the worst possible quality. It is the most common situations of the cooler motherboard after a while begins to vibrate and create an extremely irritating noise. As such, the idea will replace it, since the idea of requesting assurance that the brand cooler, end up receiving a match that sooner or later will end up in the same state. The issue of choice now depends very much on the type of chipset that the motherboard uses.
If you are an old motherboard, a simple cooler liability should be enough (if they have inside a flow of air). Something like the Coolermaster NB Cooler or the Zalman NB-47J will be more than sufficient for most cases.
If the motherboard already is more recent and use a high-end chipset as the Nvidia nForce4 SLI or the Intel 925XE or 955, should use a cooler asset. A Swiftech MCX159 would be the ideal, but because of its high price (44 euros), the ideal would be something like the Northpole, which costs half and is almost the same service. It has an extremely quiet fan (which can bind to a regular controller) but it is much more complicated to find the venda.
PSU
After silenciarmos leading producers of noise from inside a box of computer, we have the power source.
In most cases, the power supplies use one or two fans of 80mm, usually of poor quality and very noisy.
Fortunately some brands decided to market sources with a 120mm fan of silent or even 140mm. Such sources usually hold a power between 350 to 550W, brands like Cooler Master, Noiseblocker, Eurotech, LC Power, OCZ, among others. There are also sources specially designed for very low noise, as BeQuiet, Zalman and Yesico. These two sources are completely passive, using an all-aluminum structure to spread the ATX box and takes it to dissipate heat generated by it. The BeQuiet sources are normal, with characteristics very similar to OCZ Powerstream (top of the range of OCZ), but they have two 80mm fans, very quiet. There are now more sources of conceituadas for those who want to have a high-end system and wants to silence.
Housing
It appears not, but the choice of the box may have some influence on the generation of noise inside the box. If this is of poor quality, the very vibration of the hard disks in the box can generate a very significant noise.
Another problem is the fact that the box can be poorly structured, and the sites for placement of fans to generate a smooth flow of air, support them or place is not the most appropriate, generating a noise than expected .
Over time, the Chieftec dominated the market for computers, boxes of enthusiasts. There were boxes very simple and slightly flexible. The advantage of so many people have acquired when boxes of the brand was that some manufacturers such as Noiseblocker have launched kits of insulating foam specially designed for them.
They were slabs of foam with tar that, to be pasted on the walls of the box, isolavam the interior, thereby preventing outside ouvíssemos that noise generated inside.
Of course, this was against a large, which was that to prevent the hot air heated by the components could be coming to the outside world, greatly increasing internal temperature of the box and its components. As such, this type of insulation kits, fell into oblivion.
The ideal today, will acquire a good box, preferably in aluminum, not only for his low weight, but by allowing it to contribute to the dissipation of heat inside, thus making it unnecessary to use so many fans.
For those who have possibilities (financial, of course), there is always the ideal box: the Zalman TNN 500.
This is a totally passive box with power supply (also passive) integrated. It has several sets of Heatpipes with blocks that arise both in processor, Northbridge and graphics, and allowed through those Heatpipes that the box itself dissipasse the heat generated by them. It is the dream of anyone who wishes to totally ignore the computer, but with a price of around EUR 1000.
To totally silence a PC can be something too expensive. That is what we want with this article show how much you can significantly reduce the noise from your computer without losing all the money the grant of leave.
CPU Cooler
With the increasing speed of processors, also increases the need for a more powerful cooler to cool. The most problematic are the recent Intel Pentium4 and Pentium D for Socket 775 and AMD FX and X2, which have coolers of origin too noisy for the desired. It is a bit ungrateful one person give more than 1000 euros for a processor (such as AMD FX-57) and receive a cooler that is constantly generating a noise unbearable.
Fortunately there are several alternatives to the market coolers of origin, manufactured by brand rather conceituadas in its performance and silent compared to coolers of origin. These brands are the Cooler Master, Zalman, Thermalright, SwifTech, Artic Cooling, Thermaltake, among many others.
In Bits & Bytes last week tried, for example, a Cu Zalman 7700, a cooler that uses a fan of 120mm silent - but there are many other similar models. One is the new CNPS9500, a cooler-shaped wind tunnel, with an extremely silent fan of 92mm, which generates about 25dBs in normal mode. There are other excellent alternatives in the market such as the Thermalright XP-90 in copper, which has the advantage of being able to place the type of fan we want, whether it be silent, noisy or adjustable. This type of coolers around 40 euros and can be found in many computer stores.
Graphic Card Cooler
After silenciarmos the cooler processor, sometimes we have a very irritating noise and acute, which previously did not reparávamos because this is muffled by the previous cooler processor.
If the graphics card for low-end or average, is often found in coolers very beautiful, full of effects, but that unfortunately are accompanied by fans of poor quality and extremely noisy.
In the case of high-end cards, usually the use of noisy fans something is due to the fact that the GPU today's furnaces are real and almost as aquecerem (sometimes more) as a processor.
Fortunately there are already several coolers for all kinds of graphics cards. The most famous are the Zalman V700 that are compatible with almost all the graphics market, and the Artic Cooling. A good example is the case with Nvidia GeForce 6800GT, which have a very noisy cooler. By putting up an Artic Cooling NV5 (particularly for this generation of cards, NV40), it was possible to very significantly lower the noise and even the temperature to almost 10 ° C in some cases.
For the more demanding, there is a range of Zalman ZM80, a cooler totally passive and silent, but that should not be used in high-end cards. This type of coolers rarely passes of 30 euros and is the venda in major houses of computers across the country.
Northbridge
In spite of today there are many motherboards with cooler liabilities in Northbridge, unfortunately there are still many with cooler liabilities, which is always the worst possible quality. It is the most common situations of the cooler motherboard after a while begins to vibrate and create an extremely irritating noise. As such, the idea will replace it, since the idea of requesting assurance that the brand cooler, end up receiving a match that sooner or later will end up in the same state. The issue of choice now depends very much on the type of chipset that the motherboard uses.
If you are an old motherboard, a simple cooler liability should be enough (if they have inside a flow of air). Something like the Coolermaster NB Cooler or the Zalman NB-47J will be more than sufficient for most cases.
If the motherboard already is more recent and use a high-end chipset as the Nvidia nForce4 SLI or the Intel 925XE or 955, should use a cooler asset. A Swiftech MCX159 would be the ideal, but because of its high price (44 euros), the ideal would be something like the Northpole, which costs half and is almost the same service. It has an extremely quiet fan (which can bind to a regular controller) but it is much more complicated to find the venda.
PSU
After silenciarmos leading producers of noise from inside a box of computer, we have the power source.
In most cases, the power supplies use one or two fans of 80mm, usually of poor quality and very noisy.
Fortunately some brands decided to market sources with a 120mm fan of silent or even 140mm. Such sources usually hold a power between 350 to 550W, brands like Cooler Master, Noiseblocker, Eurotech, LC Power, OCZ, among others. There are also sources specially designed for very low noise, as BeQuiet, Zalman and Yesico. These two sources are completely passive, using an all-aluminum structure to spread the ATX box and takes it to dissipate heat generated by it. The BeQuiet sources are normal, with characteristics very similar to OCZ Powerstream (top of the range of OCZ), but they have two 80mm fans, very quiet. There are now more sources of conceituadas for those who want to have a high-end system and wants to silence.
Housing
It appears not, but the choice of the box may have some influence on the generation of noise inside the box. If this is of poor quality, the very vibration of the hard disks in the box can generate a very significant noise.
Another problem is the fact that the box can be poorly structured, and the sites for placement of fans to generate a smooth flow of air, support them or place is not the most appropriate, generating a noise than expected .
Over time, the Chieftec dominated the market for computers, boxes of enthusiasts. There were boxes very simple and slightly flexible. The advantage of so many people have acquired when boxes of the brand was that some manufacturers such as Noiseblocker have launched kits of insulating foam specially designed for them.
They were slabs of foam with tar that, to be pasted on the walls of the box, isolavam the interior, thereby preventing outside ouvíssemos that noise generated inside.
Of course, this was against a large, which was that to prevent the hot air heated by the components could be coming to the outside world, greatly increasing internal temperature of the box and its components. As such, this type of insulation kits, fell into oblivion.
The ideal today, will acquire a good box, preferably in aluminum, not only for his low weight, but by allowing it to contribute to the dissipation of heat inside, thus making it unnecessary to use so many fans.
For those who have possibilities (financial, of course), there is always the ideal box: the Zalman TNN 500.
This is a totally passive box with power supply (also passive) integrated. It has several sets of Heatpipes with blocks that arise both in processor, Northbridge and graphics, and allowed through those Heatpipes that the box itself dissipasse the heat generated by them. It is the dream of anyone who wishes to totally ignore the computer, but with a price of around EUR 1000.
Conclusion
With the type of products listed in this article, anyone can mute your computer, just be a bit of strength of will and some capital to acquire the coolers certain to your system. If you wish to maximum performance but with less noise yet, the idea will then bet on a system of Watercooling, but this issue can we talk later in another article.
With the type of products listed in this article, anyone can mute your computer, just be a bit of strength of will and some capital to acquire the coolers certain to your system. If you wish to maximum performance but with less noise yet, the idea will then bet on a system of Watercooling, but this issue can we talk later in another article.