General computer talk/advice

Cool all the things! More fans means I can run all of them at lower RPM and that in turn makes me able to run my PC silently and almost silently even under full load.

Temps and fan speeds.

 

554RPM? Holy moley, christ, hell, eternity and force! p) You are a true audiophile extraordinaire, you're right. I think I should update my sight on the word silent. Probably the Phenom II-computer with its hellish 6cm-fans made me neglect fan-noises...

 

If there's one thing I can not stand! It's noisy computers. Only thing I can hear in my system is my 10k drives whining away.

 

That's the idle speed though. They do about 1000 at 60C. Still very slow, my CPU fans are at ~2000RPM and I can barely hear them.

 

I just want a PSU with a non fixed speed fan, mine makes an awful racket

 

Corsair RM650, fully modular, and at idle the fan stops running making it silent.

 

Cool, I also want money to spend on computer parts

 

Many ways you can do this! Win the lottery, get a nice job worthwhile (hard to come across) or rob a bank (chance of prison time)

 

I also want money to buy a lotto ticket or get bank robbing supplies.
Jobs. Applied for many, still am applying for many, not getting any responses.

 

Seems we're in the same boat my friend. I sent my cv out to about 5 different companies yesterday.

 

I got turned down for being a kitchen assistant because I lack experience, to which I respond with how if they read my CV I have worked as a kitchen assistant for over a year before... Nah, apparently they want 2 years experience for me to likely just wash some fucking dishes and peel a potato

 

I know that feel, I have no work experience... Lol

 

Guys talking about low temps and quiet operation, me while I'm sitting here with a rig that sounds like it's taking off.

Still runs nice and cool though. Neutral air pressure for the win! (Good God does it get dusty, though)

 

Yeah i never understood that neutral/negatine/positive pressure thing on a case. I used to have more fans blowing out but my friends pointed that as "wrong".

 

positive > too much air going in
neutral > perfect amount of intake to exhaust
negative > to much air going out

Correct me if I'm wrong interwebs.

 

I have a little crude fan speed controller strapped into the back of my PC, thats then 3 pin split to an intake fan near my CPU and PSU and also via a resistor to an intake fan above my GPU. With fan speed set to minimum, the GPU intake fan gets so little power that it doesnt actually rotate unless you give it a flick to get started, at maximum, it quite silently draws enough air in to knock a good 10-15c off of the GPU temperature which also knocking a few degrees off my HDD temperatures which due to odd case layout can get quite warm while the CPU and GPU are under load.

Case is really meant for a watercooled CPU at very least. I intend to do so eventually.

And yeah. Negative pressure is more exhaust than intake. Positive is more intake than exhaust (and what I run as I have twin intake, no exhaust besides PSU and GPU's own exhaust). Negative is split 50:50.

 

You need to take some pictures of that, I love hacked computers like that, reminds me of when I used to build my early PC's "who needs solder when you have scotch tape to hold the wire together!" using said scotch tape to insulate power supply wires. Ah memories.

 

Its really not that ghetto. Especially as the resistor I used was one supplied with my case, its already prewired as a 3 pin male - female cable.


As if I just installed an optical drive to this machine while its powered on....

 

Okay, missed a lot of jokes while not sitting on my PC. Just one extremely simple question: Which is louder, two fans at 2000 RPM or four fans at 1000 RPM?

Imean, it's exactly right what @BlueScreen says. Even at 1000-2000 RPM, a few fans do not make a lot of noise altogether.

 

rpms seem to make alot more noise than quantity. The fan I added above my GPU drastically reduced noise levels as the GPU fan wasnt running so fast.