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View Poll Results: As the topic states, what's the max dBA you'd be willing to live with from fans?
20 dBA 18 27.27%
30 dBA 27 40.91%
40 DBA 13 19.70%
50 DBA 2 3.03%
No such thing as too loud 6 9.09%
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Old March 31, 2009, 06:37 PM
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Old March 31, 2009, 07:22 PM
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I'm starting to go the silent route with all my fans now.

I know i'm not going to get as good of cooling but as long as i'm not getting screamed at by the wife at 3am its some thing i can live with
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Old March 31, 2009, 07:46 PM
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Considering that the vast majority of fan noise ratings are BS, it would be pretty hard to choose a reliable option. I picked 20db myself, but only because that's often considered to be the threshhold of most people's hearing.
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Old March 31, 2009, 07:53 PM
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For me, anything over 1100RPM for a 120mm is starting to get loud/annoying.
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My printer fan is too loud
Yate loon High Speed is slightly annoying depending on what i'm doing (But its usually undervolted)
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Whats with the cap at 50db?
I don't mind that, but beyond that it gets a little loud.

And I try to keep it under 6k RPM for noise and safety reasons.
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I'm still baffled by those people out there that actually like a loud computer ... I can't remember the name, but there was a heat sink available at one time that claimed it was the "world's loudest" and people actually bought it. WTF???
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I like quiet fans, and am starting to purchase them instead of tri-cools. I do not care about the LED's anymore, instead i want to be able to hear stuff on the lowest sound setting. Jk, but you get my point. If I could, i'd have a completely silent computer.
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For my gaming PC, as long as I can't hear the fans over my headphones I am fine. However my server and HTPC need to be inaudible @ 6 feet.
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I never really cared, but I'm looking at high speed fans now, they are all pushing 35-40dBA, and I wonder if they'll drive me crazy...
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