[12Honk34]

My (signature) PC is very loud. The CPU fan seems to be the loudest. I stopped the case fans for a bit and it didn't make much difference in the overal noise level. So I think the CPU fan, the NH-D14 is the loudest fan. I sleep right next to the PC and sometimes I want to watch or listen to some stuff until I fall asleep and the fans are just disturbingly loud. I am not confident to install water cooling, there are a lot of videos on youtube e.g. where the water cooling system started leaking after a couple years or it just was not installed correctly and hardware was destroyed etc. Water cooling seems to involve a lot of risk when you are not absolutely sure what you are doing.

So is there any way to make the PC more quiet without a lot of costs involved? Water cooling would probably be the cheapest way.

Thanks.

 

[thepoopscooper]

you could lower the fan speeds...

 

[Bluelighting]

you can add sound damping to the inside of the case as well you can buy quieter running fans.

 

[TilTheEndOfTime]

Sell your haf 932 and get Fractal R4.

 

[AlphaC]

Use motherboard BIOS and change the fan speed to silent or lower the ramp up

Try using the Resistor (They call it Low noise adapter) to limit the fans speed if you can't use the motherboard to do so

 

[Scorpii]

get a fan controller, link up all your fans, and turn them down when you want it quiet. Then back up when you're using the PC more more intensive stuff

 

[Zap]

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Originally Posted by 12Honk34

So is there any way to make the PC more quiet without a lot of costs involved?

Use the U.L.N.A. adapters that came with your heatsink to slow down your fans. Supposedly they slow the included fans down to 900RPM, which should be reasonably quiet. If temperatures get too high, lower your overclock to whatever you can get at stock voltage. Cost = $0.