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I was looking at getting back into light gaming a bit (Hitman Contracts, CS 1.6, Doom 3, Red Alert 2, Half life 2 and some CSS). I've been out of it a bit and my current 'gaming' machine consists of:
a beaten-up silverstone TJ05, opteron 150, 8800GT, 2GB corsair XMS, 40GB Hitachi Deskstar and a DVD ROM drive.
Awesome but you know what in terms of performance it does what I need, what I was hoping to do was reduce the noise level. It's not crazy loud but I have recently developed an aversion to noise which isn't supposed to be there (music is fine lol).
The silverstone has never impressed me so that is definitely going to go. The 8800 is quite loud (though not as loud as the 7800GT I had before) but it does make a racket when the computer is first switched on. The MSI motherboard has 2 fans but I can't tell how much they are contributing to the noise situation. The CPU is cooled with an AC freezer 64 and the PSU is an OCZ gameXstream 700W.
What I would like to do is replace the chassis with something else (looking at the antec P180).
New HDD (I am very impressed with Samsung and have found them very quiet)
New optical Drive
New sound proofing
and if that does not make it quiet enough I will be replacing the rest of it. The last part I would be willing to replace is the 8800 as it is comparatively new, I'm hoping that if it does come to it, replacing the cooler will do the trick.
So what do you guys think? Suggestions on good parts? Warnings about bad ones?
a beaten-up silverstone TJ05, opteron 150, 8800GT, 2GB corsair XMS, 40GB Hitachi Deskstar and a DVD ROM drive.
Awesome but you know what in terms of performance it does what I need, what I was hoping to do was reduce the noise level. It's not crazy loud but I have recently developed an aversion to noise which isn't supposed to be there (music is fine lol).
The silverstone has never impressed me so that is definitely going to go. The 8800 is quite loud (though not as loud as the 7800GT I had before) but it does make a racket when the computer is first switched on. The MSI motherboard has 2 fans but I can't tell how much they are contributing to the noise situation. The CPU is cooled with an AC freezer 64 and the PSU is an OCZ gameXstream 700W.
What I would like to do is replace the chassis with something else (looking at the antec P180).
New HDD (I am very impressed with Samsung and have found them very quiet)
New optical Drive
New sound proofing
and if that does not make it quiet enough I will be replacing the rest of it. The last part I would be willing to replace is the 8800 as it is comparatively new, I'm hoping that if it does come to it, replacing the cooler will do the trick.
So what do you guys think? Suggestions on good parts? Warnings about bad ones?