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Your PC and perplexing Noise!

Posted in Computers, Tips & Tricks on September 16th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

High performance pcs generally need a lot of active cooling and high speed hard drives however also add to ruckus your pc might makes especially noticeable at night. Over time the hunning turn into droning and son . your can’t take it any more . this happened to a lot of us here at digit where even a graphics card fan picking up speed can be hard in our otherwise silent environment.

All we needed in our quest to silence the pcs ws a screw drier set. some tape rubber grommets washers and a used toothbrush. All very easily available and dost nothing or nest to nothing . after shutting down the pc opening the cabinet and tuning it on again . we looked for the noisiest component.

CASE FAN

We found that the case fans were the worst culprits . a lot of the cheap quality fan were the nosiest and since they are not really expensive we just replaced them . for those of you who don’t want to buy an new fan cleaning is the only alternative . whenever we found find a fan spinning at lower rpm we would know it was due for replacement.

THE CPU FAN

The very careful when removing the cpu fan to clean it because one wrong jerk means you could dislodge the fan to the wrong angle and damage your cpu or motherboard. When remover the cpu fans cleaned them applied artic silver thermal paste on to the cpu and fixed the fan back making sure it vas seated firmly.