I have a 1.2 kW power supply and 4 120mm fans for my new i7 mobo with dual nVidia GTX470s. The ambient temps run around 65-70C and the noise is almost unbearable. I’ve been researching sound dampening materials, and I think I’ll be insulating my case. The performance is unreal, though. There’s absolutely nothing I can’t do/play, and at almost $2500 for the whole system, that damn well better be the case!
One of my sons, and the family's official computer-builder, has dual GPUs in his machine. It is REALLY noisy, to the point that it aggravates me to even use it. And, don't even get me going on all the stupid lights emanating from the case.
I have an i7 3.2ghz and its all cooled by 1 fan all in a micro atx chassis and you can hardly hear it even with the cover off.
CPU temp stays around 40degC most of the time.
Looked at Water cooling on the GPU’s?
My old pentium 4 PC had 5 fans alone built on the mother board. Add to that the CPU fan, GPU fan, 2 fans in the PSU and 3 case fans.
12 fans!
I think i’m missing one, i remembered 13 fans...
The thing used to sound like a F-14 taking off.
You have a SWEET setup though I never build top line PC’s.
When i built my Q6600 PC last year i7 MB’s were going for over 300 Bucks.
The DDR3 memory and CPU prices were outrageous.
So for a lot les money i built the Q6600 and overclocked it from 2.6MZ to 3.4 and bought the cheapest GTX 260 i could find.
Great computer and i saved lots of cash.
I will probably build your PC in about a year in a half.
Whoops, meant 2.4 to 3.4GHz.
I have i7 and GTX260 and my system is loud enough—about half the noise of a blow dryer turned on Low. But I’m enjoying the power.
Did you by chance use fans that run at the same RPM? I made that mistake some years ago with a dual CPU system.
Yesterday I built a system for my daughter in a Cooler Master ATCS 840 case.. it’s a huge black case, with three 230mm cooling fans and one 120mm cooling fan (has locations for three more 120mm fans). Has six 5.25” front panel spaces, plus seven hard drive spaces inside (no screws required to hold any of the drives in-place). I’d never seen cooling fans that large in a tower case, yet they’re the quietest fans I’ve experienced— you have to listen closely to be sure its running. Motherboard is installed outside the case on a tray, and the tray then rolls in on ball-bearing rollers. She wanted serious cooling, and she got it. (And did I say it’s huge??)