So I can get better preformance, duh.
Why does everyone care about how loud the fans in a PC are?
Because it’s pretty annoying to have a jet engine sound next to you when your PC is on.
Oh it doesn’t seem to bother me then again, my PC is far away from me.
You don’t sleep right next to your PC when it’s on.
I have turn my pc off during the night because of the noise… I’d like to be able to let it download stuff or something.
Put towels on it. They’re strangely very good to muffle sounds. The bigger the better. And yes I have tried it.
Turn a 4890 reference cooler fan above 75 percent fan speed and find out why.
I’ve got several fans in my case, running at lower speeds, so the noise is lower than my last pc, which didn’t have fans other than the psu and gpu.
A friend of mine did this once… he woke up in the middle of the night to a loud BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP sound, coming from his computer… temperature alarm 
Whatever he put on there could have caught on fire, really… I’m not sure if his computer got permanently damaged from that.
Conclusion: make sure you don’t cover any breathing hole
My HAF 932 case is really quiet, all my fans are running on 100% fan speed the only noise I hear are my Gtx 280’s.
I wear ear plugs to bed when I leave my computer on overnight. It’s not ridiculously loud, but loud enough to bother me when I’m trying to sleep.
I just pull all the fans out of the board when I go to sleep (even the CPU fan)
So the only fans running when I’m sleeping is the PSU fan and 8800gt fan at 10% speed so its very quiet.
My CPU only reaches about 45C completely fanless because it’s idle and it has a huge heat sink that barely fits in my case…
I have a house, and don’t feel I need to keep my computers in my room. I have two in my office, and 4 in my lab. The ones in the lab may be loud, but the air purifiers and cooling in the room are louder. So who cares?
I have the same case and yeah the fans make absolutely no noise. I even added some more fans in the case from coolermaster and its still silent.
Just FYI for you people commenting on overclocking there is NO chance of equipment just simply dying due to overclocking unless it’s run for quite some time. When you overclock your video card you should be running ATI Tool’s stress test thing to scan for artifacts, if you see artifacts you just lower the clocks down until you can run the test for hours without artifacts. If you have artifacts and you just kept running it for hours or days then over time it would damage the card, but it won’t just instantly fail on you. With processors you can’t really damage them unless you give them too much voltage and/or it runs too hot for an extended period of time, but if you do this then you kind of deserve to have your CPU die on you after a few days or weeks or months because you did no research on your equipment before overclocking. I’ve had my Q6600 (2.4ghz) running at 3.6ghz since the day I bought it well over a year ago and it has a moderate voltage bump and I am not worried that it will fail at any point in time before I upgrade in the next year or two just as I have not been worried at all when overclocking CPUs or GPUs over the last 8 years.
Try RTHDRIBL. It seems to be more effective at producing possible errors than the ATI tool. I’ve had the ATI stress utility come out clean after a long run, and still end up unstable in certain applications.
I wish I had an option. I live in res now, with 1 room, and the chance to move it into the lounge with a 50% chance of it being stolen.
Insert joke because I have 2 black roommates here.
Tha’s racist, dawg
these two black fellows walk into a lounge with a computer, a watermelon, and two white women.
The men are both gay and allergic to certain unknown proteins found is foods such as melons and cucumbers. Because of their inability to consume the vitamins that can be found in these foods, they can’t move very quickly.
The white women eat the watermelon and steal the computer.