popeyPC NERDS! I have an old-ish desktop PC. MSI H61M-E23 Mobo, i7-2600 CPU, 8GB RAM, GTX 960 GPU. It's mostly just Steam and some VMs that it's used for. I make little incremental improvements over time, and this machine has suited me fine for quite a while. It's a bit noisy though. I suspect the CPU fan is the main culprit (likely?). Would like to make it quieter. Low cost suggestions?
Diego Leal@popey Keep your PC clean; have a balanced, slightly positive air pressure fan configuration; use larger fans with lower rpms; and of course use less fans.
@diegoleal It has no case fans currently, just the ones on the CPU, GPU and PSU.
@popey you need to exhaust the hot air, otherwise you cpu and gpu fans will run faster. Also consider a larger heat sink and again, larger fans with low rpm. Same applies if you go with water cooling as you would still need a fan for that (better use a quieter one than not)