For anyone interested, my dear colleague Torsten has written a very detailed explanation on the differences between decibels and Sone some time ago. Sone is the loudness and decibels is the sound pressure level, both can not be converted one to one, because at the loudness and so what plays a role as the frequency spectrum, that is how much perceived the noise source is actually. To what extent disturbing now is, for example, a value of one sone, is subjective, because we all listen and evaluate in different environments different.
A value of 0.6 to a Sone can be described as quiet and still 0.2 to 0.5 Sone are already really very quiet. At 0.1 and below we were already practically in imperceptible area. When you consider that most gamers probably sit with headset in front of the monitor, it is not surprising that very few setups ever come under a Sone under load and that it is not really all interested.
If you want it really almost imperceptible that were supposed to either complete passive cooling - because there are also some strange options such as fully passive housing - or you puts on a very good custom water cooling, in which the pump hardly gives a peep from him. In our simple example configuration we decided on the components for a semi to completely passive cooling, including insulation.
Insulation! I listen to quite a few of you cry. All the time this insulation! True, an insulation is build Silent not absolutely necessary and with some good airflow concepts can already by a fan adjustment in quieter operation switch for a normal. It becomes more difficult, however in very quiet area where electrical buzzing, HDDs and pumps are clearly the lautesten parts. Since an insulation can significantly help to reduce unwanted sources or impossible to make perceptible.
Not only in semi-passive builds as our true here: The less flowing stream, the less waste heat needs to be dissipated. And the more massive and more efficient heat sink, the less well the fans have to work. This means an efficient system, we will find it much easier to put together a silent build than with a 400-watt OC card and a 200-watt CPU.
The six-core AMD without iGPU, the Ryzen 5600X is, as a solid choice for power efficiency with decent performance, especially when it comes to gaming, as we were moving average also among the 65 Watt TDP values indicated by AMD. The two cores bigger brother, the 5800x, can also be used with the Eco mode for exemplary efficiency CPU.
We have installed the 5600X in the price tip B550-A Pro from MSI. With 110 euros a decent product, but the audio is a sound card can pay off. Other possible, X570 boards are not only much more expensive, but also come with a small fan and therefore we do not want in the context.
The Le Grand Macho as CPU cooler it not only can be heard during operation of volume in itself, but can ... or not! 0.1 Sone at 50 percent speed and 0.3 at 75 are ideal for our purpose.
The ROG Strix 3060 from Asus goes in a similar direction, because here we have a real 3090-worthy cooler and the power supply, we resorted to Fractal Ion + 2 Platinum with 860 watts. Oversized, but that s the point, too. passive semi-engageable with the zero-RPM mode and the rather low applied load, the power supply is not a problem case, as cheap or no-names which large amounts of heat.
The other components such as RAM and SSDs cause annoying noise and are the subject of loudness is not an important point. While there are already some memory cooler - not a joke - but temperatures play the DDR4 RAM until 85 degrees Celcius a roll or when manually overclocking beyond the manufacturer s specifications. These are temperatures that barely reached are not accessible under normal conditions, and most especially with stock settings.
With the built-up components and any (!) Change the fan curves is our setup under full load at about 1.3 sone, that is in clear audible range. We measured in our recording studio in front 50 cm distance. but there is much more, because the temperatures around 50 to 60 degrees to give a lot more ago: Namely, 0.2 instead of 1.3 Sone under load. With the basic requirements and the recognized of us temperature limit significantly, significantly quieter gaming session is possible in games. By now even the most sensitive player with headphones anything. We show you the same times an overview of specific data.
By adding aggressive flattening of the fan curves of the GPU in the MSI Afterburner and the CPU or the CASE fan in the MSI Dragon Center, we have already minimized the strongest noise sources. In idle you really do not hear anything, but that s not very difficult. Under Last we could already achieve a lot with this setup in our 25 degree environment. Who is concerned about the performance for thermal throttling or the like, I can calm down. It is really limited.
Who does not like it as aggressive and warm in the case - even if that must abbreviate the hardware and can grate - which can also win a lot even with a simple flattening, for example without semi-passive cooling, but with very low speeds. If you try to work with rather suboptimal cooling passive, then it may happen that the fans suddenly start suddenly, then drain again and jumping again. That annoys more, as if one could have left simply on a low speed. But this example was without problems. With elevated Celcius values you would have to look again, because at over 33 degrees room temperature, ie e.g. in the summer in the attic, that can be more critical. Therefore, there are also various profiles worthwhile, let s say one for the midsummer and one for the winter. If you want even more power with comparable silence, you may be superior to set up custom water cooling. But that s not something for every user.
What would interest me, how are your experiences that you have collected about time. You lives in the attic and have a recommendation? If she likes to share with the rest of us. And if you do not really care about the volume of your calculator, but still stay here, then thank you for watching. You also welcome you in our comments! Until then and until next time, good!
From Richard Engel editor 17.10.2021 at 08:03
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