So how noisy should a PC be?

[guitarman]

New PC finally delivered and installed but it seems quite noisy. The fan works constantly and is not actually very quiet. It wil be sited under a desk but is sitting next to it "in the open" at the moment so perhaps it just seems noisy.

I should say that the old PC is nowhere near as noisy.

Any comments?

Cheers

Dick

 

[ralphy]

Dick

I had exactly the same on my new pc when it arrived a few weeks ago.

Got the engineer out & he changed the fan - problem solved!

He told me that a lot of his calls were about fan noise & that it was just luck of the draw as to whether you got a noisy one or not.

PS My new pc's fan runs constantly too - but the man said it was meant to - something to do with the latest processors generating lots of heat???

 

[themadprofessor]

My new Dell is very quiet. All Dells are deliberately made with large lazy fans that generate low noise.

I was fixing a mates Evesham Micro PC last night and the fan in that nearly drowned out the radio it was so loud!!

Chris

 

[Iain Hogg]

Yep, my Dell is like the proverbial church mouse.

 

[doubleR]

Yup, my Dell can not be heard.
My locally built performance PC with super quiet fans and gold PSU sounds like a generator and sucks up half the carpet. Needs a good blow job with the airline every couple of months.

 

[guitarman]

Looks like it's a support call then

Pity as everything else is working fine.

Cheers

Dick

 

[Deleted account 220427002]

Also depends what chips inside.. The faster the chip the hotter it gets the more cooling it needs

Pentium runs cooler so needs less cooling

I bought a quieter PSU

And a quite fan for mine... it's still to loud for my liken'

 

[guitarman]

Also depends what chips inside.. The faster the chip the hotter it gets the more cooling it needs

Pentium runs cooler so needs less cooling

I bought a quieter PSU

And a quite fan for mine... it's still to loud for my liken'

It's Intel Pentium 4 3.4 - fan's still noisy though....

Cheers

Dick

 

[AndyT]

If you look in somewhere like Ebuyer.com you will see a wide range of fan prices and as with everything you pay your money and get what you paid for. I have a Compaq that is silent but I bought a cheap PSU for a friend as a replacement and it was unbearable. If its a new PC call em back.

AndyT

 

[cookie]

a P4 is a chip that generates a fair ammount of heat. not as much as an athlon maybe, but still needs a lot of effectve cooling.

i think pc cooling is something of a black art & am always trying to shut my pair of noisy athlons up

try fitting something like this to the case fans, then adjust the speed while checking the motherboard utility for CPU/system temps.

perhaps something like this on the CPU if you want to go quieter.
original manufacturer may have cut corners on such things to save money.

 

[guitarman]

Apparently this is a common complaint with new PCs. Acceptable levels of noise are of course subjective but new PCs, so I'm told, now run a CPU fan, a power supply fan, a case fan, a chipset fan on the motherboard and often a graphics card fan and I'd bet that fans are something that corners can be cut on.

I have to say I was always a bit bemused by magazines that ran articles on making your PC quieter as I wasn't even aware of the fan(s) on my old PCs. Now I understand

Cheers

Dick