all the noise in my rig is coming from the 2 xigmatek fans on my silver arrow and my 570 phantom when the fans spin up
rest is silent
dont have any hard drives to make any noise
Oh dear god dont get me started on GPU noise.
I have an Asus 560ti Direct CU II Top. The advice I found was go for the Asus or the MSI Frozor (or how ever you spell it). The Asus was the cheapest.
Now I was going from a silent 8800GT (Standard MSI cooler on it) so I was expeting a bit of noise. I'm games I'm sure it would have been ok. But F@H was just too much for it. Furmark could make the card top out at 99c and folding advanced methods wasn't that far behind.
I could not believe the noise comming from it. It certainly didnt take me long to chuck the cooler in the bin and slap an acrtic twin turbo 2 on there.
What really stuck me though is how my 460 GTX ran alot cooler and quieter with a stock heatsink/fan than the 560ti with the Asus Direct Cu II on it. Nope it wasnt the thermal paste, checked that.
Still I'm happy now
