Will this system make lots of noises?

[letmein123]

hi

notice many people say their system is very quiet, water cooling Graphic Card, Fanless PSU, heatsink, ......
i got non of the above, and i saw pic of my Graphic card, it has a fan (havnt seen the actual system yet)

which of the following situation will apply to my pc system:

A. Normal-- power tower 50cm (20 inch) from the bed, some noise at the background, but not draw my attention, can sleep well.
B. Noisy--, power tower 6-7feet away, notice the noise sometime but still at a background level , can still sleep
C.Very noisy---always think the power tower should be some where outside the room, keep loosing consentration, keep loosing hair, difficult to fall asleep or insomnia

i usually switch off pc 1-2 times per month, hopefully my new system is a good one


By the way, i will put a 400w PSU with 24pin connector on this system, can anyone suggest if is suitable?




Abit GD8 LGA775, SATA, PCI-Express, Snd, GBLan Motherboard
Intel Pentium 4 630, 3.0GHz 2MB Cache 800Mhz LGA775
512Mb (2x256Mb) Dual Channel DDR Memory
256Mb GeForce 6600 PCI-Express16 VGA Card
120Gb Maxtor DiamondMax DM Plus 9 S-ATA 7200rpm 8Mb Cache

[MSIC]

The thing is, you actually havent listed the things that will make the noise.
OK, the single Maxtor drive should be fine, but what we need to know is::

What case?
WHICH PSU (not just the watts)?
Who makes the graphics card?
What fan on the P4? The stock one, or are you getting a different one?

These are the devices with fans on, and its the fans (mostly) that make the noise.

Some people could argue that the Maxtor hard drive isnt the quietest, but to be honest my 250GB model is fine, it's my combination of 3 hard drives that makes the noise / vibration.
I'm getting an Antec P180 case, due to arrive today.

[sawyen]

You will also need to tell us how many case fans ur running, and which brand.. if its one of thermaltake or those antec backfires.. then you're going to have a fun time 'feeling the noise'.

I have 2 maxtor drives and its almost driving me nuts, the noise of two of them added up in RAID is like rediculous.. but they are pretty fast.. ehehe

Other than that, unless your 6600 was made by pete-o-farmer, it shouldnt be too noisy..

[letmein123]

the fan on P4 i will use the stock one, not going to change different one
the power will be FSP one, i will let you know the model number later,

the case: Thermaltake Soprano Series Case -Silver (No PSU)
Dual 12cm silent fan in front & rear, 9cm fan on side panel

Generic GeForce 6600GC-XN66D256

thx a lot guys

[herulach]

Probably the noisiest thing in there will be the fan on the grphics card and the cpu, you can find passively cooled (no fan 6600 for not a huge premium) and a quiet cpu cooler shouldnt set you back more than about 25 quid.

[MSIC]

I'm not too familiar with the items you have chosen, but a quick search suggests the case is fairly quiet:

http://www.cooltechzone.com/index.ph...1&limitstart=6

For my Geforce 6800 i got an arctic cooling fan (use this one for a 6600

http://www.arctic-cooling.com/vga2.php?idx=62

which i am very impressed with. Cost a bit over a tenner from what i recall.
Very cool temps, very quiet, and importantly (unlike my previous Zalman which was also very good) it expells hot air outside of the case rather than allowing hot air to build up inside.

For general quiet computing however, you must read http://www.silentpcreview.com/