KitGuru KitGuru.net – Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards
We have built a system inside a Lian Li chassis with no case fans and have used a fanless cooler on our CPU. The motherboard is also passively cooled. This gives us a build with almost completely passive cooling and it means we can measure noise of just the graphics card inside the system when we run looped 3dMark tests.
We measure from a distance of around 1 meter from the closed chassis and 4 foot from the ground to mirror a real world situation. Ambient noise in the room measures close to the limits of our sound meter at 28dBa. It isn’t a real world situation to be measuring with a case panel off only a few centimeters away from a video card.
Why do this? Well this means we can eliminate secondary noise pollution in the test room and concentrate on only the video card. It also brings us slightly closer to industry standards, such as DIN 45635.
KitGuru noise guide
10dBA – Normal Breathing/Rustling Leaves
20-25dBA – Whisper
30dBA – High Quality Computer fan
40dBA – A Bubbling Brook, or a Refridgerator
50dBA – Normal Conversation
60dBA – Laughter
70dBA – Vacuum Cleaner or Hairdryer
80dBA – City Traffic or a Garbage Disposal
90dBA – Motorcycle or Lawnmower
100dBA – MP3 player at maximum output
110dBA – Orchestra
120dBA – Front row rock concert/Jet Engine
130dBA – Threshold of Pain
140dBA – Military Jet takeoff/Gunshot (close range)
160dBA – Instant Perforation of eardrum
The Cube Gaming PC Core i7 Overclocked Assassin is one, if not the quietest high performance gaming systems we have tested in the last 24 months. When idle it is basically silent and under load it is barely audible, even from only 1 meter away.
Credit has to be given to BOX for their choice of components in this build. We already know the Aerocool Dead Silence Gaming Cube is extremely quiet, but BOX have supplemented the build by adding in Aerocool Dead Silence Fans. We have already analysed these fans in another review, and I rate them up there with the quietest that money can buy.
That is a great system, good specification and well thought out – never heard of box before, but will be keeping my eye on them.
I love the case, my friend bought one and its very very quiet indeed. my own thermaltake chassis sounds like a helicopter. about time I invested a little cash into upgrading.
Its a good list of components for the price. I know a lot of people say you should build your own, but after you have done it a couple of times, it loses the charm. A lot of the good UK companies have guys now that can do it as well as myself. Box seem to be one of the handful I would trust.
this unit is just like fooling all the people that is interested in purchasing if you will ask me iwill never buy this unit it is still the best if you build your own unit and put all the best parts you know about computers…