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InfernalMachine

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I have to give up my office space =( for a new baby =D, which means I must move my desk/PC out to the living room running out of space). I would have opted for using it with my 50" TV, but the wife wants to be able to hang out in the same room (she watches TV which I do very little of and me on my PC as she has a laptop).

ANYWAY, my noisy PC has to come out of the office and I need to quiet it down (see sig for specs).

I'm upgrading to X1900s in a few days and will be swapping out for new coolers. What I'm looking is:

A cooler case than the one I have (or recs for better case fan brands)
A quieter (not interested in OC at this time) CPU cooler
A quiet power supply (w/enough juice for Xfire)

I'm not overclocking at this time so quiet > cooling (while still not making it an oven).

I'm guessing I can get by with the case and start with CPU and PSU first?
 
Arctic Cooler Freezer Pro. At full speed of 2000ish RPM, it is dead silent. And cools really well.
 
I like my build:

Antec P180
PC Power & Cooling 750 Silencer
Scyth Infinity / Ninja w/ Yate Loon Fan
 
The case should be fine with some quieter fans. Yate Loons would be good, but basically just shop around and find something with low dBa readings, preferably under 30. The AC Freezer 64 Pro would be perfect as a silent cooler. For your video cards, some AC Acceleros would be perfect. They're cheap and very quiet. As a PSU, a Seasonic would be perfect, they're quiet and put out very stable power.
 
i like my noctua... if you got good air flow, perfect for passive. then again so is a ninja. ;p
 
silentpcreview.com

Great place to go for info on shushing the pc.

My personal PC:

seasonic s12 power supply (rock solid and quiet)
scythe ninja with yate loon (hooked up to fan controller for extra shushing)
 
have to agree with Zero82z - his advice is exactly that what I'd recommend.

The AC F64p is a good deal in price/performance and also verry silent. It's specially well-cooperating with asus-boards and puts some air from the cpu-fan down to the heatpipecooler which's comin from the southbridge.

The accelero is clearly the best, most powerfull and most silent gpu-cooler out there. vf900 cu and things like that ain't as powerfull as the accelero is.

The fan-cases should be 1 120 mm yate loon fan in the front and a silent 80mm-one in the rear - this should be enough.

The seasonic s12-series is without any question one of the best power supplies available on market and's doin a real good job without being too loud.

hf
greets Floke
 
Hi there,

You say you want a silent system? With 2x1900's?

The stock coolers on 1950XTX's are fine, but if you need a good heatsink I reccomend this-

http://www.thermalright.com/a_news/main_news_hr03.htm

Looking at your case it uses 80mm fans, hmm no good!

Get some of these then-

http://www.jab-tech.com/Panaflo-80mm-M1BX-FBA08A12M-pr-3035.html

Make sure you 5V the fans

CPU Heatsink-

http://www.jab-tech.com/Scythe-NINJA-PLUS-Rev.B-6-Heat-Pipes-CPU-Cooler-pr-3538.html

For you raptor (which does make alot of noise) get this-

http://www.quietpc.com/gb-en-gbp/products/harddrivesolutions/quiet-drive

Your PSU will be fine and quiet. If you want a new PSU to support your dual 1900's then get a Seasonic.

A new case? Go for either a Akasa Eclipse or a Antec P180.
 
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