Cooling tips for a SILENT gaming Pc with 980 wind force and liquid cooled 4790k

Chaingunchris · Jul 8, 2015

i want my machine to be silent but the idle and load temps are too high on the gpu

, the cpu idles at 40 and the load is at 60. The idle for the GPU is 50, the load is 70, should I replace my fans with noctuas? Please help

StarChief · Jul 8, 2015

60CPU and 70GPU is pretty damn good under load.

Chaingunchris · Jul 8, 2015

StarChief :

But my idle temps are so high, I don't understand. The gpu is idling at 50C, what the hell?

Chaingunchris · Jul 8, 2015

Hochothecreamdog · Jul 8, 2015

Look at the linustechtips video about premium fans they won't offer much better performance but will be much quieter I put a noctua fan on my couch cooler and it is half as loud as the stock one fan. As for the temps, get the biggest size fan possible as in get a 140 mm instead of a 120 mm whenever possible. Another option is to replace your cpu cooler or fan

Chaingunchris · Jul 8, 2015

Hochothecreamdog :

I maxed out all my fans in all of the slots, I have a corsair c70 vengeance case.

madchemist83 · Jul 8, 2015

Just submerge it under water u won't hear a thing

synphul · Jul 9, 2015

Unless it's a custom water loop and gpu is water cooled with a 360-480mm radiator with the fans turned down low, relying on air cooling the gpu will always make some noise under load. Aio coolers aren't known for being silent, larger air coolers can cool just as well and tend to be a lot quieter. Coolers like the be quiet dark rock pro3, noctua nh-d14, phanteks 140mm coolers, etc.

I'm not as familiar with that case but newegg says it supports up to 10 fans? You have all 10 fans in it? More fans don't always make for a quieter case, fewer strategically placed quality fans with fan speed control will provide ample airflow and low noise. Also noted that the c70 case mostly supports 120mm fans, typically 140mm fans will move the same amount of air at lower noise levels. Would require a case that supports 140mm fans.

My current case is an enthoo pro, not really built for sound control. Open bottom, front, top and mostly vented/open back with a window panel (supposedly makes a case louder). A 4690k oc'd to 4.6ghz and an hd7850 gpu (aka noisy under load, sounds like a vacuum). Only 4 case fans, a 200mm front intake, 140mm rear exhaust and 2 140's on top exhausting, all used with a fan controller. Hardly makes a sound, the 2 loudest things are hdd seeks and the gpu when playing a game. Making a quiet pc doesn't have to mean a ton of fans even when the case isn't designed for it.

Adding soundproofing type eggcrate foam or similar may help some but may also change internal airflow some. Two types of dampening, a more solid/dense foam stuck directly to metal interior of the case to 'deaden' rattles/vibrations, the wavy open cell 'fluffier' type foam for controlling higher pitched things like whining sounds, air noise/turbulence. More or less the cherry on top to an already quiet system, may not turn a noisy system 'quiet'. Sound will still escape from front/rear fan openings where air is moving through.

Chaingunchris · Jul 9, 2015

synphul :

Unless it's a custom water loop and gpu is water cooled with a 360-480mm radiator with the fans turned down low, relying on air cooling the gpu will always make some noise under load. Aio coolers aren't known for being silent, larger air coolers can cool just as well and tend to be a lot quieter. Coolers like the be quiet dark rock pro3, noctua nh-d14, phanteks 140mm coolers, etc.

I'm not as familiar with that case but newegg says it supports up to 10 fans? You have all 10 fans in it? More fans don't always make for a quieter case, fewer strategically placed quality fans with fan speed control will provide ample airflow and low noise. Also noted that the c70 case mostly supports 120mm fans, typically 140mm fans will move the same amount of air at lower noise levels. Would require a case that supports 140mm fans.

My current case is an enthoo pro, not really built for sound control. Open bottom, front, top and mostly vented/open back with a window panel (supposedly makes a case louder). A 4690k oc'd to 4.6ghz and an hd7850 gpu (aka noisy under load, sounds like a vacuum). Only 4 case fans, a 200mm front intake, 140mm rear exhaust and 2 140's on top exhausting, all used with a fan controller. Hardly makes a sound, the 2 loudest things are hdd seeks and the gpu when playing a game. Making a quiet pc doesn't have to mean a ton of fans even when the case isn't designed for it.

Adding soundproofing type eggcrate foam or similar may help some but may also change internal airflow some. Two types of dampening, a more solid/dense foam stuck directly to metal interior of the case to 'deaden' rattles/vibrations, the wavy open cell 'fluffier' type foam for controlling higher pitched things like whining sounds, air noise/turbulence. More or less the cherry on top to an already quiet system, may not turn a noisy system 'quiet'. Sound will still escape from front/rear fan openings where air is moving through.

But I just changed into this case less than a month ago because my radiator wouldn't fit into the corsair 400R that I had. I can't change the case again, maybe I could change the fans or something.

synphul · Jul 9, 2015

I wasn't trying to encourage you to invest a lot of money into your system or anything, just trying to give a general outline of things I've noticed over the years that can have an impact on noise reduction. It wouldn't be cost effective for people to just start rebuilding half of their system replacing things at will. Maybe it can give some ideas as to things you can do with your current setup. It's easy to quiet a noisy computer, it's a lot harder to make one nearly silent. Something many enthusiasts spend hours trying to configure and design trying to push for a 20db or quieter system.

Chaingunchris · Jul 9, 2015

synphul :

I think I found out what's making all the noise in my system, it's my gpu, it gets too hot and it cranks up. Maybe if I get some noctua fans at the front and get some better air flow to it, I can cook it down :3

synphul · Jul 9, 2015

I won't say it's impossible, though you already had pretty good gpu load temps. Gpu's are the biggest source of heat in a case anymore and because of the shape and fitment of the card, have to rely on small coolers even if they incorporate heatpipes and multiple fans. It won't be easy to use a gpu for say gaming and not have it heat up to the point the fans kick in. Maybe not as often, but they'll still kick in and when they do, they're just not 'quiet'. I can appreciate cards with coolers that allow fans to stop spinning at idle but even with my old outdated hd7850 with a horrible squirrel cage type fan - it's not a sound issue spinning at idle, it's under load that the sound becomes an issue.

In some extreme cases (voids the warranty I'm sure) I've seen people actually get a large cpu tower type cooler and figure a way to fix it to their gpu. Care has to be taken to account for the bulk, weight/stress of it potentially hanging heavier on the pcie slot without additional support, clearance issues, making sure vram and other parts are properly cooled with additional heatsinks.

Not so much for the article, but if scrolling down to the comments you can see someone strapped a cpu cooler to an 8800 gpu.
http://www.overclockers.com/extreme-gpu-cooling-extreme-budget/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iegpwo9SqSg

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