Why go silent?

Troncoso

Troncoso

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One thing I've never understood about the general population is that everyone likes their computers as quiet as possible? What's up with that? I personally like turning on my computer and here it come to life. Yeah the harddrive and fans let off a low hum, but it's nothing that ever drowns out all other audio. So what's that all about?
 
I don't mind noise myself to certain degree what I hate though is stock cooling on GPUs. 100% is like a jet engine in a car to me and its right next to my ear. Really screws with gaming, however its easily fixed with after market cooling.
 
My computer is the complete opposite of silent. I have two big server fans (120mm x 40mm) at front and back plus another couple other 80mm plus cpu and the two gpu fans.
When I turn on my computer it sounds like a jumbo jet haha.

I think some people just like having no noise, or just don't like the vvvvvvmmmm noise that fans make.
 
I have 4 very loud Cooler Master Sickleflow fans and 2 140mm fans. I hate them with a serious passion. Hearing the hum of the fans while listening to music or watching a movie is annoying.
 
I cant stand loud fans,I have 4x 120mm case fans,an 80mm,the one on my graphics card + the one on my Tuniq tower which is also 120mm i believe...and its virtually silent.
I have all the fans hooked up to a fan controller.
 
I like quiet PC's also but my old PC is loud as hell lol... but i'm used to it i guess. It does not bother me.
 
I'm sick of noisy computers. My PowerMac G4 sounds like a wind tunnel (funny thing is, that's the code name for the model after it lol), and my PC is just too much, sounds like a car engine that's idling.
I have an iMac DV+ and a G4 Cube (recently passed away :'( ) and those things are uber quiet. The iMac doesn't have any fans whatsoever, and if the HD wasn't 11 years old you wouldn't be able to tell it was alive. The Cube has a small fan in the bottom, which is whisper quiet.
 
When I bought my Compaq I had tech support on the phone for ages trying to resolve the noise issue that was driving me crazy, the first guy told me to take the system unit apart and check to see if any wires had gone astray (this is a brand new machine and I have zero experience in the nuts and bolts of it, so I ignored his idiocy).

The next tech support call involved holding my phone up to the computer so they could hear if the fan was overly noisy or not, but he couldn't hear anything, so after 30 minutes of using every kind of description I could think of to explain the noise from the fan I gave up.

Result = Acceptance is the way out of suffering.
 
I couldn't care either way, I use a headset :P I always prefer function over form though, my PC looks like crap, but runs cooler that way (what you get for using cheap, piss poor case), and isn't the quietest, but again, I get better temps that way
 
i have 2 fans in front, one monster fan on top, one fan in the back, one fan on the side, one CPU fan, one GPU fan, and one PSU fan and NONE of them bother me one bit. like Troncoso said, i love hearing my comp 'wake up' and light up and VROOMM up! :D but really, it dosen't bother me at all.
 
Because when I'm sitting there doing homework, watching TV or a movie I don't want to hear my computer. I currently have 3 120mm fans (800 rpm, 2x 1200rpm) and a 120mm slim fan on my heat sink. My graphics card fan is usually silent, but will rev up hard when gaming.

I always want my computer to seem simple and understating and being quiet certainly helps in that department.
 
Mine's fairly quiet I think, though I do have four 120mm fans going. Three of the fans are cheap-ish, with the 4th being the CM PWM one that came with my Hyper 212+. However, my GPU is passively cooled, so that helps a ton.
 
I have my comp in its own room with the cables run thru a wall so it can be as loud as it wants and i never hear it ill post some pics soon
 
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