Does anybody know of any pc fans or anything along those lines which will reduce the amount of noise generated by the pc? Occasionally I like to leave the pc switched on overnight downloading some big files but i get grief from my girlfriend over the amount of noise it makes... any suggestions?

 

Papst are the quietest, or change any 80mm's for 120's, or go for water cooling

 

Try Quiet PC - they do a whole range of fans'n'stuff.

 

Panaflow fans are THE quietest...

 

purely from what I have heard I was told papst fans were the quietest?

 

I settled on 34cfm 80mm Papst fans as a good compromise.

 

LOL Dom , the correct Papst are just as good and quiet as the correct panaflo's in normal use I have lots both.

If you don't want to spend the earth, look at getting some of the laser blue LED colermaster fans on Ebuyer, they are cheap at around £5 a shot and are quiet anough IMO. Combine that with a decent heatsink and fan combo for you CPU (which in a normal system is prob the biggest source of noise anyway) and you should be happy.

Cheers,

Nick.

 

panaflo L1A fans are the quietest 80mm per flow of air

i buy from Dorothy...
http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=7479

As said... 120mm fans are quieter than 80mm, if u run them at a lower voltage... but if ur looking for a simple solution, then go for same size fans

NMB are great fans too..
i have a NMB 92mm (cooling cpu using a Zalman Flower cooler), a Panaflow 80mm (cooling the graphics card using a Zalman Heatpipe cooler), a NMB 120mm intake fan, a NMB 120mm exhaust fan - all controlled by a Zalman multifan controller

The noisiest parts of the system in order were:

cpu fan
case fans
graphics card fan
powersupply fan

 

LOL @ Nick, i'm running a couple of the blue LED colermaster fans from Ebay!! through a sunbeam rheobus...

 

Stick a big heatsink on it that can take 80mm fans. Then you can have a big,slow ,quiet fan. You may even be able to get a fan adapter for your existing heatsink so it can take a bigger fan.

 

What make is your mobo? With ASUS you get the Q Fan bios setting which throttles back the cpu fan if it isn't running under full load.

 

Another vote for the Coolermaster LED fans here.
About a fiver each for 80mm fan from overclockers. Reasonable throughput of air and quiet at 25dba.

Papst are renowned for this but more expensive.
£14 for a 19dba fan with slightly lower throughput.

Joolz