Computer Noise

[megawhompertoo]

Re: Computer Noise

Also, it's worth a shot to check on where the cables are running. For example, if you happen to have your cpu fan cable right above the fan instead of routed around the side, it will make noise, just like the principle that makes a saxaphone make sound. It is best to try to get all your cables out of the vicinity of the fans.

As others have said, your p4 3.4 is a roaster, and your CPU fan is having to work hard to keep up with it. I've got a 3.0, and I was in kinda' the same boat before I took a 75mm hole-punch drill bit, a grated 80mm fan, and some car venting to my formerly beautiful antec sonata I. Does your case port the cpu exhaust directly out of the case via a vent? If not, do you have the know how (also known as "skillz, dawg") to cut a hole in it and install a fan? The more air you can move away from that P4, the cooler and quieter it will be. Putting in a vent with a dual fan system (cpu + case exit providing negative pressure inside the case) would be the most effective means of cutting that noise down dramatically, BUT there are larger size, better quality ball-bearing aftermarket CPU fans that will run more quietly. This would be the simplest solution. You can google

"silent PC reviews"

for actual ratings on various CPU fans for your socket 478 processor.

acutally, here ya' go:

http://www.silentpcreview.com/

As a final thought, you may want to check and make sure your thermal paste was adequately installed. And after you're done checking to make sure they put it on right, clean that factory crap off and slap some arctic silver 5 on there. That might--MIGHT--help, and it can't hurt.

[Sir. bzb]

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Acousticly speaking, you would put a speaker on a stand if you want a louder speaker. It you wanted primitive sound proofing you would carpet the surfaces of a room.
Therefore the floor is a good place for Mr noisy as its not on a stand and i pressume close to carpet.

You could try adding foam or similar pads for it to sit on and add foam or simlar strips to the case joints.. but that really wont help stop the noise if you dont know why or where its coming from specifically.
As it is its a guessing game between cpu fan and case fan with a hint of gpu on the side, perhaps i might toss north bridge in?

What fans have you got in your pc? size, rpm etc?

[Eternal-Souljah]

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Well first of it is on a desk, second inside the computer is neat, like I said before its not custom built, its factory, anyway inside the processor has a big ass tube? or something and down in the tube is a fan, then under the fan is the heat sinc. The tube leads up to a vent in the side of the computer.

No idea on fan sizes or rpm. Hm do you think that it could be the power supply causing the noise? its a 350 W

[grazer1]

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More than likely it's your CPU fan. P4's-- especially at 3.4ghz get really hot. I have my 3.0ghz P4 overclocked to 3.4ghz and I have a Hyper48 cooler on it that keeps it running cool, but the fan noise is really annoying when I'm gaming. If it was steady I wouldn't mind so much, but it's always spinning up and down and up and down, pretty irritating. There's not much you can do about it besides looking for a cooler that has a good balance of cooling/noise. There's not many but they're out there. If you have some money to spend I would look at liquid cooling.

Completely agree. I had a 3.06 Intel that sounded very loud under high processing loads. I switched to an AMD 3400+ and it's whisper quiet. Definitely a fan noise issue. Usually the fix involves a quieter fan that can still manage the heat, or a different processor, preferribly AMD :)

[Sir. S.A.S]

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ty, but the computer is completely stock all thats been done to it is another 512MB of RAM. Yes I give up on cleaning out its always full of dust, I don't know how to prevent it, waste of time if I clean out it comes back nearly right away.

some tips to keep it clean.

1) get fan dust filters so all u have to do is take them out out and clean them.

2) If its on the floor put it ona desk as it sucks up all te dust!

[Eternal-Souljah]

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some tips to keep it clean.

1) get fan dust filters so all u have to do is take them out out and clean them.

2) If its on the floor put it ona desk as it sucks up all te dust!

Fan filters? I'll look up that, it sucks though I went through like 4 PS2's because dust got in them and fcuked the laser. Not only that I think dust killed my processor in my old comp for some reason it went from 2GHZ to 1.4GHZ and it still loaded windows but nothing would run lol. How was that?

[megawhompertoo]

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Well first of it is on a desk

ok, so it's not a starved-for-fresh-air issue

its factory

thermal paste still might help. some three year old in taiwan smeared the paste in your dell/hp/compaq/gateway/whatever

anyway inside the processor has a big ass tube? or something and down in the tube is a fan, then under the fan is the heat sin[k]. The tube leads up to a vent in the side of the computer.

Ahhh, yeah, that would be an exhaust tube. so, your processor is pushing air to the outside...hmmm...i'd still consider slapping a second 80mm (edit: scratch that, I'd go for a cheap, low voltage 120mm. get a neon blue one if it suits you) fan to SLOWLY pull the air out. it would PROBABLY make a huge diff on the temps (along with the fresh cpu paste) because instead of just blowing the heat off the cpu into the "outside", now you will have bigger pressure difference...leading to more effective movement of not only hot air out, but also fresh, cold air in....which SHOULD REDUCE TEMPS...which SHOULD LOWER THE PROCESSOR FAN SPEED...which SHOULD LOWER THE NOISE.

An aftermarket processor fan (no more than ~$30-$40) would also come in handy for noise. www.silentpcreview.com recommends the best, and they do a good job at testing them.

No idea on fan sizes or rpm. Hm do you think that it could be the power supply causing the noise? its a 350 W

It depends. Put your ear up to it and see if it's noisy.

[Eternal-Souljah]

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ok, so it's not a starved-for-fresh-air issue


thermal paste still might help. some three year old in taiwan smeared the paste in your dell/hp/compaq/gateway/whatever


Ahhh, yeah, that would be an exhaust tube. so, your processor is pushing air to the outside...hmmm...i'd still consider slapping a second 80mm fan to SLOWLY pull the air out. it would PROBABLY make a huge diff on the temps (along with the fresh cpu paste) because instead of just blowing the heat off the cpu into the "outside", now you will have bigger pressure difference...leading to more effective movement of not only hot air out, but also fresh, cold air in....which SHOULD REDUCE TEMPS...which SHOULD LOWER THE PROCESSOR FAN SPEED...which SHOULD LOWER THE NOISE.

An aftermarket processor (no more than ~$30-$40) would also come in handy for noise.

It depends. Put your ear up to it and see if it's noisy.

Well it sounds like a generator sort of, you know a electricity generator kind of that buzzing sound, its quiet right now since im not playing a game, but thats what it sounds like, it also has the sound of something switching like a record player or something lol.

[Sir. bzb]

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Take a look at your heatsink and compare with attached. This is a relativly dust free heastsink and fan from an athlon 3000, it ran games with about 50% of the fan area rendered ineffective by dust build up. Note you cannot see the heat sink fins as clearly in the top or bottom as you can see them in the centre. I ran this happily with a lot more dust!
Solution: Compresed air. But make sure you pc is cool first, compessed air may leave the canistor as a sub zero liquid and kill things. Always read the lable. It helps to remove the fan from the heatsink.
Since its CPU fan you are stuck with dust blocking heatsink causing the fan to kick in earlier than needed or loud fan requiring after market silent cooler. If its a new noise then it should be dust.

[Eternal-Souljah]

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Take a look at your heatsink and compare with attached. This is a relativly dust free heastsink and fan from an athlon 3000, it ran games with about 50% of the fan area rendered ineffective by dust build up. Note you cannot see the heat sink fins as clearly in the top or bottom as you can see them in the centre. I ran this happily with a lot more dust!
Solution: Compresed air. But make sure you pc is cool first, compessed air may leave the canistor as a sub zero liquid and kill things. Always read the lable. It helps to remove the fan from the heatsink.
Since its CPU fan you are stuck with dust blocking heatsink causing the fan to kick in earlier than needed or loud fan requiring after market silent cooler. If its a new noise then it should be dust.

I hate dust, its like mosquitoes but to your computer.

I used compressed air before, its like £8 for a can at pc world, exorsion. Anyway just shove the hoover/vacume if you like in there .

[Sir. bzb]

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Vacumes dont quite do the same thing, pull rather than push, but you have sinned... pc world..... i will join a religion and pray for you soul :p

[Eternal-Souljah]

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Vacumes dont quite do the same thing, pull rather than push, but you have sinned... pc world..... i will join a religion and pray for you soul :p

lol true, where do you think my pc came from?