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okay so I might have done goofed when I did my last media center PC upgrade thing because while I did put fan control in place using the Noctua industrial 2000 rpm fans definitely resulted in louder just even idle noise levels from that computer then I consider good enough for a media center so I'm going to show you guys will do it like a baseline reading here and then turn on the computer even from the listening position my not super exceptional sound level meter is going to be able to pick up a difference so go ahead have a look at the screen and then I'm going to turn on the computer alright so there's our baseline reading I'm going to go ahead and turn my media center PC on so even with fan control enabled you can see that I done kind of goofed on the configuration of this I set it up with Noctua industrial fans and even though I went with the 2000 rpm ones and I do have them on fan controllers it's not good enough and there's still a noticeable difference even from this far away from the computer on the couch here where I would typically be sitting to watch a show or a movie or something so something needs to be done today we'll be trying to address this because even at idle it is pretty loud and actually noticeable over a movie especially because I have kids upstairs and I can't like you know just crank the sub to overpower it the Coolermaster Nova touch tkl is powered by doper hybrid capacitive switches for the ultimate typing experience and is now available for a reduced price click my face to learn more so of course you can always put quieter fans into a system in this case we're going to be using naktu as new NFS 12 days so these are the replacements for the B's and the main improvement seems to be these like anti stalling bumps on the blades so yeah ok cool at any rate these run at a mere 800 rpm without the low noise adapter inside and 600 rpm with the adapter so I'm planning to use the adapters which means we need to find out if that's having an adverse effect on our temperatures because if you guys remember the reason I put fans into this cabinet in the first place was what was that the temps of the system inside were so high that it was thermal throttling anyway so we're getting a baseline here our GPU runs at a power percentage of about 68 at it's 80 degree cap it's actually more important to look at that power percentage in a benchmark like this because that tells us how much it's throttling back and then our CPU tops out around seventy-five degrees on the little graph on the right so we're going to go ahead we're going to swap these fans and we're going to find out how much of an impact that has on temps but first I need to get this cat off my lap he's like surely you misunderstood I would like to sit here and you're pushing is not helping there we go hope and I need this little man thank you sir all right let's shut this baby down and terror apart again there we go when are you gonna take a victim are you gonna help me fix the computer loan man 30 I just want to fix it you already fixed it we didn't do anything yet no anything yet take this one for me yeah how about this one you put that somewhere safe okay you go put those somewhere safe yeah I'm gonna take him on the table let me put these on the table just get this hole plugged this is a good chance to have a look at how dusty it's gotten in here not too bad actually even though I have my filter and it's not ideal position on the exhaust side of these fans they're they're not bad at all all right let's uh let's get to swapping out all those fans my camera person is being assaulted here little man do you want to open one bolt yeah are you gonna take out all the pieces all done okay how many fans do we have now Oh SOB time to install them now right okay you're gonna help me yeah we gotta take out the old fans before we can put in the new ones do you think the brown one looks nicer do you think the black one looks nice how many people you'll find to agree with you but you're entitled to your opinion can you pass me a screwdriver sweetie I'm gonna get two orange font for you okay great thank you um honey the orange screwdrivers over here thanks sweetie oh I think the mesh is the problem Oh could be really bad then all right I guess we should clean this out since we're in here anyway I'm gonna find him okay hey did you put all the fans in while I was gone oh did you put the screws in let's vacuum it out first okay I won't vacuum your foot why would you think I would vacuum your foot okay okay I'm gonna have to get those back out from under there oh wow your arms are small okay can I have two more screws oh thank you all right you can help me with the screws on the next one okay can I have that Nash now that's a fan not a mesh this one yeah thank you are you screwing in the nuts okay should we replace two more fans all right I'm gonna need your help with these ones okay I want you to reach in here and get the screws while I undo them from the back okay see that one do you see them moving you got to grab those ones help me find them please sure just a sec okay honey these ones I'm pushing them out see you're welcome good job how many do you have I don't you don't want any more one good oh you should have one more you should have four this one goes in there all right I need you to yeah I need you to hand me one of those new fans and then we're gonna go ahead and install those in the back oh I think the I think the screws actually going from the other side yeah it's going to go in this way this way I'm playing with Daddy hey hey you when I how'd you get back here because I got back here finally supplies oh you brought the fan yeah glad to sign from you oh thank you okay I'm gonna put it inside I know so here's the progress we've made so far we've got the new fans installed in the bottom with the filter so these are the intakes right under the system and then we've got the two new fans also other two new fans installed at the back as exhausts so now all that's left to do is take the Y cables that I had before so these ones plug in each of these sets of fans and then plug them right into the back of the computer because if you didn't see my last media center upgrade vlog I can show you guys the way I have it set up at the back of the system whoops is we have either molex power out to that splitter or just to four pin and controllable connectors just coming directly off of extensions from the motherboard so that's what I'm going to be plugging them into okay move your butt little man okay we're going to get it silent for sure this time okay little now I'm almost done I'm gonna plug in our HDMI and then our USB Ethernet no we're not gonna plug in the UPS you just see I think we're good yep I think we're good I think we're good all right back inside we go I don't any need to come up close to the front so that it gets a signal all right oh just wait okay let's plug in this whoa I said wait little man well that's already quieter oh we didn't put this in yet so we've got our core i5 4570 processor in there we've got our GTX 980 16 gigs of ram there you go sweet and OH let's go ahead and set these a little bit lower because these fans might actually run lower than 600 rpm on occasion I don't want an alarm to go off so I guess we'll leave the control on there we go we can see what speed our fans are running at and let's reboot and find out if our temps are still okay much quieter Wow that made a big difference all right so let's let's why don't we start by getting our sound reading then and then and then we'll go ahead and get our temperature reading okay hon can I get you to go in the other room so we can get our sound reading I love you very much but you're loud that's kind of bizarre that's lower than our baseline from before well let's not put too much stock in what the sound level meter says I Denny reheat it definitely way quieter like I can barely hear from here so let's just find out if it adversely affected temperatures alright so there we have it it's results time pretty much what I expected so our CPU temps are a little bit higher you can see there's one hovering around 77 degrees there and our power percentage on our GPU is a little bit lower but this is all very very reasonable levels and for how much quieter it is I will take that trade off every single time like it went from being obviously noticeable over the sound of a movie to I can hardly hear it even without anything else playing so there you go yay lower rpm yeah using the right fans for the job guys thanks for watching like this video if you liked it dislike it if you thought it just plain blew chunks leave a comment at the link in the video description at the Linus tech tips forum or under the video player whichever works best for you if your feelings are a little more complicated than this as always also linked in the video description we have a place where you can buy cool Linus tech tips 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