silent cooling

[Gajdycz]

ok, can i get a good passive heatsink for my p4 3ghz, or what decilbe level is considered "silent" right noe my sytem makes a lot of noise an i wanna make it lower.

 

[Hazar]

true silent=0 db

 

[blahblahblah]

Silent for general purposes is around 21 db. That is the quietest you can find cooling equipment for computers. I have this which works really well. The only downside is that it is heavy (check Zalman's website for motherboard compatability) and it is pretty expensive.

 

[FictiousWill]

Watercooling is very quiet, I've heard.

 

[Fletch]

Watercooling is very quiet, I've heard.

no pun intended right

 

[FictiousWill]

Heh - right.

 

[Hazar]

hahaha

typically the less fans = the less noise.

but you already knew that.

 

[jonbob]

Silent for general purposes is around 21 db. That is the quietest you can find cooling equipment for computers. I have this which works really well. The only downside is that it is heavy (check Zalman's website for motherboard compatability) and it is pretty expensive.

It's quite relative really. I'm sat next to a comp that puts out a little over 14 db and I can hear it. It's very quiet as computers go, but far from silent. Perhaps I have good hearing, but I doubt it.

 

[staddydaddy]

I used to know the formula for the relation of how loud a sound is to the distance from it. I think it's something like (db reading at position x(1)/db reading at position x(2) )^1/2 . I assume that this is effected by what medium you're using (air, some sort of gas), humidity, and polution yad yada.