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Ambient noise in the room is around 20-25dBa. We measure from a distance of around 1 meter from the closed chassis and 4 foot from the ground to mirror a real world situation.
Why do this? Well this means we can eliminate secondary noise pollution in the test room and concentrate on only the video card. It also brings us slightly closer to industry standards, such as DIN 45635.
KitGuru noise guide
10dBA – Normal Breathing/Rustling Leaves
20-25dBA – Whisper
30dBA – High Quality Computer fan
40dBA – A Bubbling Brook, or a Refridgerator
50dBA – Normal Conversation
60dBA – Laughter
70dBA – Vacuum Cleaner or Hairdryer
80dBA – City Traffic or a Garbage Disposal
90dBA – Motorcycle or Lawnmower
100dBA – MP3 player at maximum output
110dBA – Orchestra
120dBA – Front row rock concert/Jet Engine
130dBA – Threshold of Pain
140dBA – Military Jet takeoff/Gunshot (close range)
160dBA – Instant Perforation of eardrum
The FiercePC Hazer Mini Gaming PC is a quiet system, barely audible when idle. As the system is not overclocked at all, and it is using a cool running GTX 750 Ti the load noise levels are very respectable indeed. It is clearly audible under load however and if you replaced the fans in the BitFenix Colossus with higher grade units, you could reduce noise further.
Its a good build for £500, don’t think i could even build a system with that hardware for the price. dont see how they are making money on this at all.
Not so sure on that case, but its attractive enough. I agree, Prodigy or Dead Silence is a nicer design to work with over the years. Still thats an impressive build, I am not keen on AMD APU for gaming, although obviously without the GTX750Ti in the build, the AMD APU would be better than the i3. Like this system a lot.
Thats a really good build. Would like a slightly bigger SSD, but it would obviously increase the price a little.
vs450w is low quality compare to my vx450w