Posted April 09, 2013
F4LL0UT: Just fully opened the machine and discovered a horrible mess: the grid between the CPU and the fan was almost completely covered in dust. It totally blows my mind, I don't even know how it got there. I mean, the CPU fan is meant to suck the heat away, not blow cool air at the CPU, right? So I don't get how there could be so much dust on the fan's side of the grid - and the CPU fan is definitely attached properly as its design doesn't even allow to attach it the wrong way around. Anyway, I removed that layer of dirt but sadly my PC still hasn't gotten much quieter. There's still some part somewhere which is causing an awful buzzing noise. It's certainly not a wire touching one of the fans or anything. It really has to be something beneath the graphic card's case but that thing is shut tight, would take a lot of effort to dismantle it. :/
Ive had trouble with aluminium case and resonance. I put some rubber feets under the computer, which actually seemed to help some. But atleast in my computer majority of noise is from old-old nvidia gtx 295 which something between leafblower and vacuum cleaner. I wish i had budget to change it just about anything else :(