Noisy PC's

[Pedullist]

Does anyone have problems with this?

I recently bought a new mic and a new PC, and the combination of the two is mighty disastrous: the PC (PIV 2,26Ghz) makes a lot of noise and the new mic (Stagg MCO-7BK) picks it all up.

Does anyone have experience with low volume ventilators & CPU coolers? Do they actually work?

Help me! (and don't say 'buy a Carillion PC' because I'd love to, but I don't have the money for it)

Thanks, Tjarko

 

[jrosenstein]

i can sympathize. i recently replaced my power supply and fans because all the noise it was making was driving me crazy.

Enermax "Whisper" 350W power supply .... can't hear it

new heatsink and Panaflo 80mm fan, running at 5V instead of 12 ... barely hear it, and CPU is cool enough.

i'm still looking for a quiet case fan. i got one that claimed to be very quiet, but it seems their definition of quiet differs from mine. i may just get another panaflo.

 

[Jagular]

My puter is super noisy. I have GEForce 4 TI 4200 running in there for gaming along with the cpu & case fan. My solution is that I will shortly be cutting a hole in a side wall of a closet to run my cables through and shove that baby in the closet. I'll have to get up to change CD's & such, but I don't do it that often, so it shouldn't be too much of a drag. I do need to get a usb hub and monoitor cable extension though...may be stopping at CompUsa tonight

 

[moskus]

I put a CPU cooler called "Silent Breeze" and the PC became more quiet...

But now I hear that my harddrive is noisy as hell! I've even soundproofed my computer case, but to no avail...

 

[Pedullist]

OK, thanks guys....

Hey, I did a test running CoolEdit's Noise reduction tool on the vocaltracks (select the noise as noiseprint) and it actually works! (pure blasphemy for technerds, I know, but I'm not very conventional ). I still can't record beautiful quiet pieces like Jagular makes, but it works fine for my full-on-symphopop....at least for the time being. Luckily it doesn't even get 'glassy', you know, that peculiar sound of too much denoiser? I'll investigate the aforementioned stuff...

Thanks!

 

[Antz_Marchin]

Hey my comp is kinda noisy too and at the moment I'm just gonna have to live with it til I can build something when I get home in the summer. Does Sonar have one of those noisereduction options like on Cool Edit?? What does it do just take a template of the noise of the comp when the rest of the room in completely silent and then cancel it??... Thanks ....BJ

 

[moskus]

Does Sonar have one of those noisereduction options like on Cool Edit?? What does it do just take a template of the noise of the comp when the rest of the room in completely silent and then cancel it??... Thanks ....BJ

No, Sonar doesen't offer any noise-reduction tools, you'll have to open them in CEP for that.

And cancelling out noise... that's a great idea, but it's not possible to do. You see, noise is random frequensies by definition, so two noise-sources won't cancel each other out, just make it more audible...

 

[Paul881]

I bought some gear from Quiet PC and that drastically reduced the PSU and CPU noise:

http://www.halcyonics.co.uk/

Check out the CPU fan & heat sink. What a beautiful piece of engineering

 

[sinuque]

Right on the button there about Halcyonics My mate just received his iStyle case and it seriously rocks. Superb piece of kit and very professional too for recording. The acoustic padding makes the interior sound like some kind of miniature vocal booth, and the power supply, a nexus model is completely silent - or I'm Deaf.... WHAT??

My credit card is tingling.

 

[Pedullist]

Does Halcyonics beat Zalman stuff?

 

[Pedullist]

Jeez, did a little investigating...the market is FILLED with silent coolers and power supplies. What to choose?

Halcyonics seems tempting, but I don't like the idea of ordering it in england (expensive, and difficult when you have to send it back if it breaks down or anything)

 

[moskus]

Don't trust the figures posted on net. I'm not saying that every dB figure is wrong, but different measuring methods means figures you cant compare.

 

[Pedullist]

I never look at those thingies....most of the times I don't even know what I'm looking at....

Except if you mean other kind of figures, ya know?

Anyway, THAT'S why I'm asking you guys. People with real experience....

A coworker has Zalman, was very enthousiastic. So I think I'll go for Zalman!

 

[Paul881]

Jeez, did a little investigating...the market is FILLED with silent coolers and power supplies. What to choose?

Halcyonics seems tempting, but I don't like the idea of ordering it in england (expensive, and difficult when you have to send it back if it breaks down or anything)

These people were recommended by SOS magazine and they give total service. Products are great too. They ship all over, so no problem to Holland.

 

[Porter]

Heh.. use a laptop ;-)

I'm running a P4 1.7Ghz PC. I'm also running drive bays in the front to swap between my audio and my normal HDD. I've got 2 of those caddy bays in there at the moment, soon to be just the 1. That should reduce the noise. Other than that I'm going to try using my dooner blanket to try and muffel the sound, see how that goes.

Mind you... down the track I'll probably get a quiter power supply.

 

[Pedullist]

I ordered Zalman stuff, just a tad less pricier than Halcyonics...(it's pricy enough, btw, some people buy harddisks for that amount of money )

 

[Pedullist]

This is what I ordered!

 

[Paul881]

Very pretty, how much did she cost?

 

[moskus]

Wow, that was big! How do you fit that into your computer?

 

[Pedullist]

Uhm, 41 euros...that's about the same in dollars.

Wow, that was big! How do you fit that into your computer?

It doesn't. I'll have to remove my motherboard, harddisks, soundcard and cdplayers to make it fit LOL