 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 2,000 rpm fans definitely resulted in louder Just even idle noise levels from that computer than I consider Good enough for a media center, so I'm gonna show you guys We'll 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 and 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 2,000 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 Cooler Master Nova Touch TKL is powered by Topper 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 Noctua's new NFS 12a's 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, okay 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 its 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 75 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 And I need this little man Thank you, sir. All right. Let's shut this baby down and tear her apart again There we go Are you gonna help me fix the computer a little man You already fixed it we didn't do anything yet You 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 put them on the table I'm gonna put these on the table Just get this all unplugged 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 there. 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? Uh-huh Bolt The fan's in there Yeah See the fan Are you gonna take out all the pieces? Yeah, I'm gonna take out all the pieces You see another fan All done Okay, how many fans do we have now? We have one, two, three, four Awesome Four Time to install them now right? Yeah Okay, are you gonna help me? I am gonna help you You took off all the screws Okay You took off all the screws dad? Yeah, we got to take out the old fans before we can put in the new ones These are brown Do you think the brown one looks nice or do you think the black one looks nice? Uh, brown looks nice I don't know how many people you'll find to agree with you, but you're entitled to your opinion Can you pass me a screwdriver sweetie? Uh-huh, I'm gonna get the orange one for you Okay, great. Thank you Um, honey, the orange screwdriver is over here Oh, dang it Well, dang it There's your screwdriver Thanks sweetie Oh, I think the mesh is the problem Uh-oh That could be really bad then Oh, finally There we go There we go Alright, I guess we should clean this out since we're in here anyway I'm gonna put the fans in Okay Hey, did you put all the fans in while I was gone? Yeah Oh, did you put the screws in? Put the screws in please Let's vacuum it out first, okay? Dad, don't vacuum with my foot, okay? I won't vacuum your foot Okay Why would you think I would vacuum your foot? Because you don't have to vacuum my 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? Yeah, you want two more screws here Oh, thank you I'm gonna put the screw in, dad Alright, you can help me with the screws on the next one, okay? Okay Okay Okay Okay Okay You can help me with the screws on the next one, okay? Okay This one goes in? Look, I put four in the screws Okay Can I have that mesh now? That's a fan, not a mesh This one? Thank you Are you screwing in the nuts? Yeah I screwed one in there Okay, should we replace two more fans? Yeah Alright, 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? Yeah See, that one This one? Do you see them moving? You gotta grab those ones I'm gonna grab those ones too Dad, can you help me find them please? Sure, just a sec Okay, honey, these ones I'm pushing them out See? There, thanks You're welcome I got all the screws Good job, how many do you have? I don't want anymore You don't want anymore? No Three, then one, two, three Oh, you should have one more, you should have four Can we see the right one? Thanks Dad, this one goes in there? Alright, 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 Okay And then we're gonna go ahead and install those in the back Uh huh Oh, I think the screws actually go in from the other side Yeah, it's gonna go in this way This way Mom, I'm playing with daddy Na na na Na na Na na Hey, dad Hey What are you doing? Because I got back here I was surprised Oh, you brought the fan Yeah, I brought the fan from you Oh, thank you Okay, I'm gonna put it inside Uh huh O N N O HADEEE So here's the progress we've made so far We've got the new fans installed in the bottom with the filter and 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 with either Molex power out to that splitter or just two four-pin fan controllable connectors just coming directly off of extensions from the motherboard So that's what I'm gonna be plugging them into Okay, move your butt little man Okay, move my butt Okay We're gonna get it silent for sure this time Okay little man, we're almost done Okay We're gonna plug in our HDMI HDMI And then our USB USB Ethernet Ethernet Oops No, we're not gonna plug in the oops Let me just see I think we're good Yep, I think we're good I think we're good Alright, back inside we go That antenna needs to come up close to the front so that it gets a signal Alright, oh just wait Okay Let's plug in This one I said wait little man Well that's already quieter That's already quiet Oh, we didn't plug this in yet So We've got our Core i5 4570 processor in there We've got our GTX 980 16 gigs of RAM We got to close it dad, we got to close it There you go sweet Thanks And 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 fan 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 Alright, so 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 hun, 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, at any rate it's definitely way quieter like I can barely hear it 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 Yay, 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 blue 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 t-shirts, not like this one, we have this is not a Linus Tech Tips t-shirt We have Linus Tech Tips t-shirts, though I assure you, it's linked there Also in the video description you can find a link to contribute to us if you think what we're doing is important and you want to support it And finally, you can change your Amazon bookmark to one with our affiliate code, that kind of thing helps us out a lot, because we get a small kickback whenever you shop on Amazon, as long as you click through that link So thanks again for watching, and as always, don't forget to subscribe and follow in all that noise, if you want to see more videos just like this one or probably different from this one, this is sort of different from our usual format