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hunter

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24. I had a loud computer and thought it was the fans...

Wed Feb 17, 2021, 11:28 AM

Feb 2021

... but it turned out most of the noise, which I found intolerable, was coming from the hard drive.

Noise is not taken into account in hard drives designed for the server market.

I replaced the hard drive with a silent solid state drive and the fan noise decreased as well since there was less demand on the power supply and less heat being dumped inside the case, allowing the fans to slow down. I cut the noise even further by replacing the noisiest fan with a quieter model.

These days I avoid computers with fans. I'm not a gamer and I do very little work that's computationally intensive.

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LOUD-ass computer [View all] OneGrassRoot Feb 2021 OP

It could be relaid out. Find a tech who's been in the same location for at least a couple of year .. marble falls Feb 2021 #1

Is that harder on the cased computer/CPU? OneGrassRoot Feb 2021 #5

No. I'll do it if I'm traveling and I don't want to carry my lap top. I just bring a hard-drive ... marble falls Feb 2021 #7

Ok, thank you! n/t OneGrassRoot Feb 2021 #11

Yes you can get a hard drive case with usb connection... N_E_1 for Tennis Feb 2021 #2

Okay, thank you! n/t OneGrassRoot Feb 2021 #21

Maybe Timewas Feb 2021 #3

SD's are a grat HD solution - low energy, no moving parts, fast, totally silent themselves ... marble falls Feb 2021 #9

Pretty much Timewas Feb 2021 #19

I would want to know a little more BootinUp Feb 2021 #4

It's a Dell Optiplex 790 - refurbished OneGrassRoot Feb 2021 #13

Dell doesn't make airplane simulators. So BootinUp Feb 2021 #18

you are mixing up a bunch of stuff here..... getagrip_already Feb 2021 #6

It's a desktop... OneGrassRoot Feb 2021 #14

Another way to tell Timewas Feb 2021 #20

Is it fans? bullimiami Feb 2021 #8

Thanks very much for those suggestions! n/t OneGrassRoot Feb 2021 #17

One more comment. Replacing hard drives BootinUp Feb 2021 #10

Gotcha... OneGrassRoot Feb 2021 #15

Consider replacing the fan Miguelito Loveless Feb 2021 #12

Okay. Thanks very much! n/t OneGrassRoot Feb 2021 #16

Boot into the BIOS and see if there is a fan control setting. eppur_se_muova Feb 2021 #22

Thank you very much. n/t OneGrassRoot Feb 2021 #23

I had a loud computer and thought it was the fans... hunter Feb 2021 #24