Is it old Power Supplies? Cuz mine is old and still abit dusty, would getting a new PS help with heat and noise? cuz my pc gets a lil hot just idling
cheap, loud fans
cases with poor airflow causing higher ambient temps
inefficient heatsinks requiring more airflow thus faster fanspeeds
loud HDDs
Fans and HDD. My old HDD in my laptop was loud. Got a new one after it died and everything's cool now. CD drives are bad about noise too
[QUOTE=Protocol7;29500354]Fans and HDD. My old HDD in my laptop was loud. Got a new one after it died and everything's cool now. CD drives are bad about noise too[/QUOTE]
Especially 52x CD drives.
These things can cause a magnitude 10 earthquake if they're not properly balanced :argh:
Anything mechanical/has moving parts attributes to noise levels.
These include fans (especially cheap ones and ones with bad bearings), optical drives (when in use), hard drives, (especially if not mounted properly, which can also damage them) floppy drives (when in use), and so forth.
Fans can also be loud if one of the blades is clipping a wire. It happens a lot to me because I can't figure out cable management for the life of me. Or if you're really unlucky and a loose wire inside the PSU hits the fan. Those are a bitch because it's hard to move the wire out of the way. I just smacked my case near the PSU until it shifted the wire enough out of the way to get that stupid buzzing sound to stop.
Then you have peripheral components such as scanners and printers which can both be fairly loud.
Then you have the speakers which can be even louder, lol.
CD drives and fans most of the time.
Fans.
Fans.
Fans.
Loud hard drives are a poor excuse.
Edit: Disagree? We're not running ST-225's anymore so either you have incredible hearing or your drive is shit.
Fans. Seriously they die a lot.
Good thing is they're cheap and you can easily replace them. :)
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Small fans are a big source of noise. If you've got high-end GPU with a stock cooler, it's probably the loudest thing in your case when you're gaming.
[QUOTE=drummerundrcovr;29502661]northwood pentium 4 3gHz w/ hyper-threading @ full load
THE NOISE IN THE SUMMER AAHHHHH[/quote]
My 3.2 Northwood P4 uses liquid cooling to move the heat to an exhaust fan but it's thermally controlled so every so often it will rev itself up to 5000rpm. It's enough to drive you nuts.
[QUOTE=drummerundrcovr;29502661]northwood pentium 4 3gHz w/ hyper-threading @ full load
THE NOISE IN THE SUMMER AAHHHHH
[editline]29th April 2011[/editline]
also phenom ii's generate a bit of heat
[editline]29th April 2011[/editline]
oh and the HORRID NOISE OF some 40-80GB IDE HARD DRIVES! especially most < 40gb.
OH AND THE MAXTOR STUCK SPINDLE NOISE!
[editline]29th April 2011[/editline]
oh and my gtx 470 superclocked in a burn test- 80% fan and 80-85C in the WINTER. oh god its first summer is coming :ohdear:[/QUOTE]
Your CPU doesn't make ANY noise at all. It's that cheapass cooling that you've got on it.
OP. Try running fans at 5v instead of 12v
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OP. Try running fans at 5v instead of 12v[/QUOTE]
*op's house burns down*
[QUOTE=Goz3rr;29503153]OP. Try running fans at 5v instead of 12v[/QUOTE]
if you run them that slowly on lemon batteries then your computer becomes [sp]the combustible lemons that Cave Johnson was talking about[/sp]
My old PC's PSU fan could be heard 10 from outside my house....
fans. it's always the fucking fans. hard drives make a recognisable sound, but only really during use.
My computer's hard drive sometimes makes a LOUD FUCKING 999999dB SCREEECH NOISE THAT SOUNDS LIKE A LOUD HUGE BIG ASS JUMBOJET FLYING OVER MY HOUSE. When it last happened, I pulled the power cord out, and I thought that it's broken. :v:
It's a 250GB (244 actually) Western Digital piece of crap metal and shit
HDDs and fans
When fans wear out they get loud
And smaller fans tend to be louder, for example two 200mm fans at low speeds would be just as much airflow, but much more quiet
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[QUOTE=Osku1234;29510986]My computer's hard drive sometimes makes a LOUD FUCKING 999999dB SCREEECH NOISE THAT SOUNDS LIKE A LOUD HUGE BIG ASS JUMBOJET FLYING OVER MY HOUSE. When it last happened, I pulled the power cord out, and I thought that it's broken. :v:
It's a 250GB (244 actually) Western Digital piece of crap metal and shit[/QUOTE]
probably dying, will eventually happen to any HDD regardless of manufacturer because they're mechanical and thus eventually something will wear down enough to break
WD is fine, hell if samsung really are pulling out of the HDD market then they will be the best around
and it's 244GB because HDD manufacturers use 1000_B to 1_B (e.g. 1000MB to 1GB) while computers will use 1024_B to 1_B
I don't get all the whining about loud psu's, I got 7 psu's from as early as 2000 (Maybe earlier, they were in a Win98 pc..) and they make no noise [b]AT ALL[/b] Some have 80mm fans, others have 120mm and no noise.
[QUOTE=Osku1234;29510986]My computer's hard drive sometimes makes a LOUD FUCKING 999999dB SCREEECH NOISE THAT SOUNDS LIKE A LOUD HUGE BIG ASS JUMBOJET FLYING OVER MY HOUSE. When it last happened, I pulled the power cord out, and I thought that it's broken. :v:
It's a 250GB (244 actually) Western Digital piece of crap metal and shit[/QUOTE]
Sounds like your HDD is dying, guess what one i'm gonna suggest :v:
I only had two HDD's that you could even hear when they were in a computer and they are from around 1998 from when my family got our first computer that did not run dos(I wish i still had that IBM goddess) and the hard drive was so fucking loud you could hear it from anywhere in the house.
[editline]1st May 2011[/editline]
damn near all my computer have had loud fans after a while.
GTX 480
Who needs speakers when this thing simulates a Jet Engine for me
do those pointy rubber fan mounts work with noisy fans?
I actually find the hard disk read/write clicking sound to be rather soothing.
[QUOTE=cdlink14;29549218]I actually find the hard disk read/write clicking sound to be rather soothing.[/QUOTE]
I think of it as a meat grinder.
[QUOTE=xgman236x;29549075]do those pointy rubber fan mounts work with noisy fans?[/QUOTE]
They'll help if vibration is a problem, not for the sound of air going through it though
[QUOTE=kaze4159;29549425]They'll help if vibration is a problem, not for the sound of air going through it though[/QUOTE]
so whats the fix for the latter problem
[QUOTE=xgman236x;29559756]so whats the fix for the latter problem[/QUOTE]
better fans
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