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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.
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
We tested with the fans at the default middle position.
The system is relatively quiet, thanks to the excellent Fractal Design Arc Midi 2. Under load, the noise level does increase, and it is clearly noticeable although never that intrusive. The Corsair H60 fan has to work hard as the 4670k is producing quite a lot of heat under load. The last generation 3570k certainly operated at a much lower load threshold.
Average build at best, I could build one much better than this. I dont like the haswell CPU’s either, id rather get the 3770k
The motherboard is excellent, but with the name I agree – id expect an ASUS graphics card in it,. its a GAMING SYSTEM!
Not a bad looking system i do love those cases, but the haswell chips are a waste of time IMO. who the hell cares about integrated graphics on one of these processors? I bet that is what is causing the heat build up.
Nothing much to say on the system, its like 500 other prebuilts out there. the score is too high.
Its not bad, the performance is good, but I just bought a second system for my office from pcspecialist and the cable routing is 50 times better. I dont think I could have done a better job myself
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