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Ambient noise in the room is around 20-25dBa. 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.
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 system is audible, but never intrusive. At full load, the fans spin up and a total of 36.9dBa was measured. With an overclocked system, it is important to ensure there is enough air flow, and MESH have achieved quite a good balance, including an additional Cooler Master fan in the side panel.
If you wanted to reduce noise a little, you could easily swap out the case fans for BeQuiet! models.
Spectacular! I love that system, great case too.
Got to love the 3770k, I want to upgrade my 3570k as I do video editing. Just need to get the funds.
Good system from MESH, didn’t know they were still going. I remember buying a system from them in 1998
Awesome review.
(Just remember to put in other graphic cards in your graphs in the next review, to have something to compare against. Or Titan without OC CPU as baseline to compare against :))