How to build a quiet gaming PC
The parts that make noise, and what to buy instead.
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Noise comes from three places: the graphics card's cooler, the processor's cooler, and the case's airflow. Fixing one and ignoring the others achieves nothing.
A larger cooler is a quieter cooler, because it moves the same heat with slower fans. A 360mm radiator or a dual-tower air cooler running at 800rpm is inaudible where a small cooler at 2,000rpm is not.
Case airflow decides whether the coolers have to work hard at all. A mesh front with three intake fans running slowly beats a glass front with two running fast, every time.