My new music studio workstation

synkrotron

synkrotron

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Hi Peeps,

Here is the spec for my new music workstation:-

Case
BE QUIET! DARK BASE PRO 900 FULL TOWER GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™ i9 Eight Core Processor i9-9900K (3.6GHz) 16MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS® ROG STRIX Z390-E GAMING: ATX, LGA1151, USB 3.1, SATA 6GBs, WIFI - RGB Ready
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 2666MHz (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card
ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 1050Ti (had to fit this myself)
1st Storage Drive for data
1TB Samsung 860 QVO 2.5" SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 550MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
1st M.2 SSD Drive for OS
500GB SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3500MB/R, 3200MB/W)
Power Supply
CORSAIR 650W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Processor Cooling
Noctua NH-U14S Ultra Quiet Performance CPU Cooler
Sound Card
Two linked Roland OCTA-CAPTURE USB Audio Interface
Operating System
Genuine Windows 10 Professional 64 Bit

And a couple of pictures:-

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and here is the rest of the "studio"

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RetroComputing

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Nice setup!

How quiet is your Noctua NH-U14S Ultra Quiet Performance CPU Cooler? I did a stupid thing and purchased a quiet case with the stock intel fan :( silly whirring thing it is! The two massive front and rear fans on the case make no sound at all but the whirring noise from the CPU fan as it's constantly going up and down and up and down and up and down is doing my head in!!!
 
synkrotron

synkrotron

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RetroComputing said:
Nice setup!
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Thanks :)

RetroComputing said:
How quiet is your Noctua NH-U14S Ultra Quiet Performance CPU Cooler?
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Good question, and I'm not really sure to be honest. Reason being, I guess it's what you are used to and I've been using a laptop since 2012 now which, far from being that quiet, is still quieter than some PC's I've had in the past.

Also, there are a total of nine fans in my setup:-

Five case fans. Three are 140mm Silent Wings 3. There is a 140mm Corsair and there is a 120mm Corsair.

The CPU fan.

Then there is the PSU fan, and I deliberately went for the Corsair TXm for its "ultra quiet" fan.

Then there are two fans on the GPU which are supposed to be quiet, plus they only spin up when they absolutely need to. The ROG STRIX 1050Ti is supposed to be zero dB but I've not really pushed it that much yet. Just the odd game of DOOM and as I play that with my headphones on I suppose I wouldn't really notice any fan noise.

So, all in all, with the Noctua fan being inside the case, which is supposed to have a certain amount of sound proofing, it is hard to tell. I haven't tried overclocking yet and when I did a quick stress test using Prime95 the maximum CPU temperature was 65 degrees C.

Sat here now, I will say that I am pretty happy with the quietness of the whole thing.

Getting on for about twenty years ago now I built a "quiet" PC. I wish I could remember the specs but what I do remember is that fan speed was starting to be controlled by the motherboard. And the old 80mm fans were being replaced by quieter 120mm fans. I remember that the CPU fan speed, when at idle, was very slow indeed and barely audible. And even then I decided to build the whole thing into a special enclosure which took are from a different room in the house and sent it back again so if the monitor wasn't on you couldn't tell if the PC was on.

RetroComputing said:
I did a stupid thing and purchased a quiet case with the stock intel fan
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Yeah, probably not the best choice. Are you going to replace it? The Noctua is quite a beast so it might be worth checking that it will fit on your motherboard with the components you have. I suppose they should be designed to fit but I've heard tales that the bigger fans can clash with some memory sticks.


Sorry for the long reply... I do tend to go on a bit haha!


cheers

andy
 
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RetroComputing

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synkrotron said:
Probably a good idea. You may well get used to it.
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Maybe, maybe not! It's only the fact that for example as I'm viewing this forum the CPU usage goes up slightly so therefore so does the fan and then just as quick as it goes up it goes down again as the CPU drops and it's just annoying!

When playing games the fan is spinning faster, but constant so it is not annoying at all when playing games.

I'll see how it goes...
 
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