Noctua Silent AIR COOLED Gaming PC |
Noctua Silent AIR COOLED Gaming PC
I'm Tinku and
recently I did a silent system and therefore the Silent base 801 enjoyable
experience. I had six fans in there the full DBA at load was under 35 which was
amazing but today we're gonna attempt to do something different then therein
system is practically
inaudible but people recommending hey if you would like to travel with silence
why not try Noctua and since I’ve got this nice collection of
coolers up here including the nhd 15 which is that this massive Tower plenty of
cooling capacity for the 9900K and the new NF 812 fans that i will be replacing
inside the case so I'm really excited to work out how quiet we will get the
system to run all on air cooling gotta get those accessories
well sounds like all the components are here let's start the build right after
this so you're saying this is often the most colorful thanks to cool I'm
telling you the master liquid ml 360 our RGB is that the way to go cooler
masters new three sixty millimetre all-in-one liquid cooler is all about
performance better. You'll be able to sync via its own controller or through
various addressable and 12-volt RGB connectors alright perhaps you should check
it get into the conscription below alright.
So you'll take them off and that I
actually forgot about this in my review you'll be able to pick it up by the
underside versus the keys feed on the 601 are reasonably built into the frame
we still have the electric switch to release the side panel i really like this
approach it's to us and like I said I could simply put this panel on the 801
and it'd fit and therefore the other difference would be as the price therefore
the 601 is $30 cheaper so this guy sells for $130 versus $160 for the window
version of the 801 now the interior is extremely similar both support ATX
motherboards the 601 as you'll be able to see slightly smaller because the 801
allows you to invert the motherboard tray so there is a bit more height
clearance up here we even have an extra intake.
So we've four modular pieces the front
and this plastic piece so it's slightly different and that I do prefer just
like the fully built-in power supply shroud on and finally the i/o is just about identical with two USB 3 power
reset buttons audio jacks one USB port and a bit fan control up here but it is
controlling the included fans and you can't augment it it's powered by SATA and
that we don't have any pwm fan control and as for noise reduction we've got
this really thick 10 millimeter noise absorbing foam on the rear panel and on
the front panel everything is dust proof protected so a pleasant giant dust filter
for your front fans and removing the bottom dust filter from the front nice and
convenient there's also.
The noise absorbing material for the
highest that is kept further from your ventilation space at the rear as for a
devotee and radiator mounts you'll do a 360 or 280 up top and also the same
thing goes for the front so pretty good water cooling and airflow options
alright so now that we are familiar what this case is all about the 601 is
essentially an 801 with a slightly shorter power supply shroud and fewer height
above the motherboard for all your radiator stuff I feel it is time to try to
our side o.k. so I believe that might be first on behalf of me you know having
that classical relaxing music for a building montage computer but that
represents my mood perfectly with the silent bass 601say what you'll about the
brown Noctua offense but once they're all at once in the
system and it is not rather like one cooler it's all the fans within the system
it makes total sense and that they quite like bring it all at once I didn't
have to replace the front fan on the CPU cooler because the RAM modules are
slightly too high for it and yeah you bought five fans in there let's make sure
that this thing is running silent as for cable management as you'll be able to
see everything is perfectly clean I'm not running multiple drive so I just
stashed away my SSD right in here I secured my 24 pin and also.
The PCI cables right behind here also
connected the eight pin so yeah everything is clean the side panel closes with
none force and we've many space over there for more going to want to shut the
mister window due to that lovely construction noise outdoors I'm probably gonna
need to sit up for after they're finished to do my DBA measurements except for
now let's actually plow ahead and set this thing up and configure all the fan
profiles so they're just whisper quiet but also give me the enough cooling thanks
to that hot 9900K some moments lateral alright so after some tweaking I'm proud
of everything that I've configured here all my fans are running about 1200 rpm
and they are incredibly quiet I'm impressed Noctua well done
apart from the center large fan that’s running around k rpm because that one
gets slightly louder if you push the rpm higher now my target DBA for love or
money silent for my very own sort of preference would be under 35 DBA at load
and then this technique without delay is running about 34 DBA at load this can
be with the GPU at 44 percent and also the CPU running at4.7 gigahertz so very
pleased with the result it's slightly just a small bit louder than my silent
base 801 system and that I think that's because all the noise in this system is
coming from back so all that exhaust air and if I reduce the RPM of the rear
fan the system is largely completely silent but then we quite lose on cooling
because that's the sole thanks to exhaust air versus on my silent base 801
machine I had three fans exhausting hair and I think the noise was there a bit
more distributed versus here where it's all quite concentrated therein rear
section as for temperatures the CPU ran at 80 degrees Celsius this is often the
9900K at 4.7 gigahertz so it's bit hot I could tweak around with the voltages
to scale back that temperature there the GPU was running at 76 degrees Celsius
without 44% fan speed therefore the system.
I spastically inaudible, but it's
slightly hot inside course I can increase the speed of the front fans which
definitely pushes lots of that air out it helps with intake moreover but
interestingly after I removed that front panel so after I remove this front
panel you'll be able to hear lots more noise is being escaped from the front
but we dropped our CPU temperature by 10 degrees so it looks like there's
always that balance of trying to create a machine silent while also perform
good with airflow and you recognize 10 degree drop with an easy panel removal
yeah I suppose that's our direction when it involves silent cases now for all
of you who are saying hey that brown combination on the fans is absolutely ugly
and that I was one in all those people likewise but Noctua makes
black fans and when they're all at once they cannot be and that they look pretty
good but if you're brave enough to maneuver yourself into the RGB direction
definitely try color orange that I feel complements the brown. I'm happy with
the silent base 601 after all cooling may be a big compromise especially when
you remove that front panel not even the most effective filter leave the dust
filter in but that front panel could be a major hindrance for air flow so you
gotta balance out certain things when it comes to making sure that your system
stays silent.
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