Silent PC Review spends a lot of effort choosing components which offer a great performance but do not create a lot of noise and their latest sytem is a perfect example. Even with a pair of air cooled GTX 970's and an i5-4690K this system only hit 23dBA under load, quiet enough for SPCR to confirm their 970's suffer from coil whine. The sound came primarily from the GPUs as you would expect so it is possible that finding a very quiet radiator and watercooling them might reduce the sound produced even further. It just goes to show how much quieter air cooling has become from the days of screaming 40mm Deltas.
"For our 8th Quiet Gaming PC Build Guide, we take on the challenge of two high-end video cards in an SLI configuration featuring a pair of Zotac GTX 970s in the SilverStone Fortress FT05 case."
Here are some more Systems articles from around the web:
- Chillblast Fusion Barbarian Gaming PC @ Kitguru
- ECS Liva SOC Mini-PC System @ eTeknix
- TR's February 2015 System Guide
Such great cable management.
Such great cable management. Anywho, you can do Quad SLI and still remain quiet with watercooling. Doesn’t even have to be custom water. You can use AIOs with brackets that Corsair and NZXT are offering.
like two Titan Z? that’s what
like two Titan Z? that’s what Quad sli means.
>noVideo 970
Stopped reading
>noVideo 970
Stopped reading right there. Into the trash it goes.
Besting 23 dBA should prove
Besting 23 dBA should prove hard with water cooling, given the usual noise floor of commonly used pumps.
You do know that the Sapphire
You do know that the Sapphire 290X with the Tri-X cooler is quieter than any 970 or 980, right?
I owned a Tri-X 290, it’s an
I owned a Tri-X 290, it’s an excellent cooler but it’s still cooling a 300W Hawaii chip. Some 970s are definitely quieter.