My first build

[goldorak]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Off the carpet for sure but I keep it on the shelf under the desk to keep the noise down there and not up by my head. However, my new computer with quality fans is very quiet and would be fine on my desk. I only hear the video card fan kick to high gear when running some heavy graphics.

Anyway back to you, were are you with the build? Fire it up yet?

Noise is very hard to keep down in a high performance pc.
My case for instance doesn't have 30 cm fans, only (3) 12cm fans running at 800rpm. Its mostly silent, even considering the fan on the cpu.
What really frustrated me is the fan on the 9800gtx+.
Its pretty quite when I'm working on the desktop, but the moment I go into 3d mode playing some heavy 3d game the fan goes almost at full speed, from 40% to 70-80%.
Ok it keeps the gpu "cool" but the noise is for me unbearable.
ATI and Nvidia should learn to make high quality cooling without resorting to delta fans (who remembers those ? 6000rpm fans).