**Component Selection: Choosing the Right Parts for Your PC**

When it comes to building a PC, one of the most critical aspects is component selection. The right components can make all the difference in terms of performance, efficiency, and overall user experience. In this article, we'll explore some key considerations when selecting components, including the importance of cooling solutions, fan noise, and storage options.

**Cooling Solutions: A Crucial Consideration**

When it comes to cooling solutions, there are several options available, each with its own pros and cons. One popular option is a radiator-based system, where water is pumped through a radiator to cool the components. This method can be more efficient than traditional air-cooling methods but may require additional infrastructure, such as a pump and hoses. Another option is a third-party cooling solution, which can often provide better performance and quieter operation at the cost of increased complexity and expense.

In terms of graphics cards, there are two primary options: reference designs and third-party solutions. Reference designs, offered by manufacturers like Nvidia and AMD, are typically designed to be plug-and-play solutions that fit into most cases with ease. However, they may not always provide the best performance or quietest operation. Third-party solutions, on the other hand, often offer improved cooling and quieter operation at a premium price.

**Fan Noise: A Key Consideration**

When it comes to fan noise, there are several options available, each with its own pros and cons. Some systems use traditional spinning hard drives, which can be quite loud, while others opt for solid-state drives (SSDs), which are completely silent due to their lack of moving parts. In terms of fans themselves, some systems use large, low-velocity fans that produce a noticeable humming noise, while others opt for smaller, higher-velocity fans that produce less noise.

**Tuning Your System: Getting the Most Out of Your Components**

While component selection is critical, it's equally important to tune your system to get the most out of your components. This involves adjusting fan speeds and settings to optimize performance and quietness. In many cases, this can be achieved using a fan controller or utility software that comes with the motherboard.

For example, on my Asus motherboard, I use the AO Suite utility to fine-tune my fans. With just one button click, I can adjust fan speeds and settings to achieve optimal performance and quietness. This level of control is available on many modern motherboards, making it easier than ever to customize your system to suit your needs.

**The Importance of Fan Tuning**

Fan tuning is a critical aspect of optimizing system performance and quietness. By adjusting fan speeds and settings, you can reduce noise levels and improve airflow, resulting in a more efficient and effective cooling solution. This is especially important when it comes to power supplies, which can produce significant amounts of heat and noise.

By fine-tuning your fans, you can achieve a much quieter system than if you had simply selected the right components without considering fan settings. This may seem like a minor aspect of PC building, but it can make a significant difference in terms of user experience and overall satisfaction.

**Conclusion**

Component selection is a critical aspect of PC building, and choosing the right parts can make all the difference in terms of performance, efficiency, and overall user experience. By considering factors such as cooling solutions, fan noise, and storage options, you can select components that meet your needs and optimize system performance. Additionally, fine-tuning your system with fan settings and utilities can further improve performance and quietness.

While component selection is a crucial aspect of PC building, it's equally important to remember that there's often more than one way to achieve optimal results. By considering different options and finding the best balance for your needs, you can build a PC that meets your requirements and provides years of reliable service.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: engaming PC's our performance powerhouses but they don't have to sound like one I remember my first PC I put it together back in 2011 I believe and I was so proud of it at the time it's the first thing I'd ever put together myself but it wasn't really a looker and it made an absolute racket and the thing is it really didn't need to I've had known a little bit more back then I could have had something that was significantly quieter and wouldn't have affected the temperatures off the system so if you're in a similar space then hopefully this video might help you get a little bit of a quieter PC so if you're designing a new build what sort of things would you need to know well the main thing and the thing I would like you to take away from this video is that your PC is only as quiet as the loudest component inside you can spend an absolute fortune getting a brilliant graphics card CPU cooler fans but then if you've got some hard drives that are making an absolute racket cuz they're not fitted properly well that's what you're going to hear and you're going to essentially wasted your money until you fix the problem the things really to think about though are the things that make the noise in your system so the fans obviously are probably the first thing that people think about but you've also got to remember that the cases themselves can have a big impact as well as things like hard drives and anything that isn't fitted properly that might create some rattling that I assure you will get very annoying no obviously we do need fans to actually keep our system at a decent temperature and depending on the amount of money you spend on your case it will normally directly correlate with the amount and the quality of the fans you're going to get so if you go for a very cheap case unfortunately you're probably gonna get some nerf fans that you might want to swap out later whereas if you go for a more expensive case something like the Corsair 460 X behind me it actually comes with decent fans in the first place and I wouldn't personally see the need to swap these out your graphics card and processor are slightly different beasts though and I've called slightly differently you can grab an air cooler or water cooler an air cooler will rely on a large heat in a fan or then carry the heat away whereas a water cooler will rely on water that won't directly bring the water from the hot bit which is your CPU or GPU and then take it to a radiator where a fan will blow air away and this is actually a lot more efficient but obviously it is putting water in your system which some people won't be happy with and you can sometimes get a lot of pumped noise that can actually be more distracting than fan noise but it will depend on the exact unit that you go for a decision you're going to have to make that only affects graphics cards is whether to go for a reference design or a third-party design and when a new graphics card is made the manufacturer so either Nvidia or AMD will have what's known as a reference caller this is what the graphics card has been tested on and it will fit in pretty much any case because it relies on a single fan to blow air through it and out of your case where third parties come along and essentially say you know what I can do a better job and they have a much larger cooling solution often at increased cost but they are often quieter and they will give you lower temperatures than a reference design now the final thing to mention in terms of components is with storage and everyone knows that SSDs are all the rage and they give you a much more responsive system but they're also completely silent because there's no moving parts in there whatsoever contrast this you have normal traditional hard drives that spin they do create quite a loud whirring motion if they're not fitted correctly and even if they are they can still be quite noticeable if the rest of your system is very quiet now I'm not suggesting that you completely get rid of hard drive because normally especially when you're doing anything like gaming you'd never be able to hear the hard drives anyway but if you're going for the absolute dead silent system then you are going to want to go for an SSD only system but obviously that is very expensive so that's everything I think you need to know about the component selection but the other side of the coin is all about tuning making sure your system is running efficiently and this is what I should have done all those years ago because I made the big mistake of building a PC but never customizing the fan speed and this is what is going to make your PC run a lot quieter when it doesn't need to be loud so all we need to do is make sure that all your fans are connected to some sort of fan controller in my case in pretty much everyone's case these days it's just going to be the CPU and fan headers on your motherboard this is going to allow you to make a fan curve that is going to correlate with your temperatures so that when you're running cool you can have quiet fans but as soon as you're running it at max loads your fans will ramp up and then you'll have the calling if you don't have enough fan headers then you can invest in something like the Corsair commander pro but for most people this probably isn't necessary despite the fact that is quite a cool bit of kit so why did and what most people would need to do is just grab the utility that comes with your motherboard if you're running an asus motherboard like I am then this is AO Suites but if you're running gigabyte msi or any of the other brands they will have their own and it's really easy all we need to do is tune your fans as a button called fan tuning and the rest will take care of itself it will find out the best settings for your fans it will discover the ranges that they can run it and then you can then customize it further and rather than me talk about how great it is this is the difference so as you can clearly tell it's a massive difference just from hitting one button this will of course depend on the fans you've got on your system and if you have something like a really loud power supply then you will then start to hear this over your case fans but it should give you a good starter for tuning your system to make sure that it's a lot quieter than it was obviously you can make further changes to fine tune everything and you can set fans spin-up speeds and slow down speeds and things like that if you're getting a lot of peaking and there are loads of other things you can do things like get different cases with foam inserts to further reduce the noise but I'm someone that likes to have a nice balance and I think that careful component selection good tuning is all you need to do so I think that's everything really you need to know and everything I have to offer I hope it's been useful if it has hit the like button and subscribe for more videos like this if you have our own tips and tricks please leave them down below always really helpful and it's great to hear your suggestions and obviously help everyone else else a massive thank you to you guys for watching this video of course - asus rog for sponsoring the channel and i'll see in the next onegaming PC's our performance powerhouses but they don't have to sound like one I remember my first PC I put it together back in 2011 I believe and I was so proud of it at the time it's the first thing I'd ever put together myself but it wasn't really a looker and it made an absolute racket and the thing is it really didn't need to I've had known a little bit more back then I could have had something that was significantly quieter and wouldn't have affected the temperatures off the system so if you're in a similar space then hopefully this video might help you get a little bit of a quieter PC so if you're designing a new build what sort of things would you need to know well the main thing and the thing I would like you to take away from this video is that your PC is only as quiet as the loudest component inside you can spend an absolute fortune getting a brilliant graphics card CPU cooler fans but then if you've got some hard drives that are making an absolute racket cuz they're not fitted properly well that's what you're going to hear and you're going to essentially wasted your money until you fix the problem the things really to think about though are the things that make the noise in your system so the fans obviously are probably the first thing that people think about but you've also got to remember that the cases themselves can have a big impact as well as things like hard drives and anything that isn't fitted properly that might create some rattling that I assure you will get very annoying no obviously we do need fans to actually keep our system at a decent temperature and depending on the amount of money you spend on your case it will normally directly correlate with the amount and the quality of the fans you're going to get so if you go for a very cheap case unfortunately you're probably gonna get some nerf fans that you might want to swap out later whereas if you go for a more expensive case something like the Corsair 460 X behind me it actually comes with decent fans in the first place and I wouldn't personally see the need to swap these out your graphics card and processor are slightly different beasts though and I've called slightly differently you can grab an air cooler or water cooler an air cooler will rely on a large heat in a fan or then carry the heat away whereas a water cooler will rely on water that won't directly bring the water from the hot bit which is your CPU or GPU and then take it to a radiator where a fan will blow air away and this is actually a lot more efficient but obviously it is putting water in your system which some people won't be happy with and you can sometimes get a lot of pumped noise that can actually be more distracting than fan noise but it will depend on the exact unit that you go for a decision you're going to have to make that only affects graphics cards is whether to go for a reference design or a third-party design and when a new graphics card is made the manufacturer so either Nvidia or AMD will have what's known as a reference caller this is what the graphics card has been tested on and it will fit in pretty much any case because it relies on a single fan to blow air through it and out of your case where third parties come along and essentially say you know what I can do a better job and they have a much larger cooling solution often at increased cost but they are often quieter and they will give you lower temperatures than a reference design now the final thing to mention in terms of components is with storage and everyone knows that SSDs are all the rage and they give you a much more responsive system but they're also completely silent because there's no moving parts in there whatsoever contrast this you have normal traditional hard drives that spin they do create quite a loud whirring motion if they're not fitted correctly and even if they are they can still be quite noticeable if the rest of your system is very quiet now I'm not suggesting that you completely get rid of hard drive because normally especially when you're doing anything like gaming you'd never be able to hear the hard drives anyway but if you're going for the absolute dead silent system then you are going to want to go for an SSD only system but obviously that is very expensive so that's everything I think you need to know about the component selection but the other side of the coin is all about tuning making sure your system is running efficiently and this is what I should have done all those years ago because I made the big mistake of building a PC but never customizing the fan speed and this is what is going to make your PC run a lot quieter when it doesn't need to be loud so all we need to do is make sure that all your fans are connected to some sort of fan controller in my case in pretty much everyone's case these days it's just going to be the CPU and fan headers on your motherboard this is going to allow you to make a fan curve that is going to correlate with your temperatures so that when you're running cool you can have quiet fans but as soon as you're running it at max loads your fans will ramp up and then you'll have the calling if you don't have enough fan headers then you can invest in something like the Corsair commander pro but for most people this probably isn't necessary despite the fact that is quite a cool bit of kit so why did and what most people would need to do is just grab the utility that comes with your motherboard if you're running an asus motherboard like I am then this is AO Suites but if you're running gigabyte msi or any of the other brands they will have their own and it's really easy all we need to do is tune your fans as a button called fan tuning and the rest will take care of itself it will find out the best settings for your fans it will discover the ranges that they can run it and then you can then customize it further and rather than me talk about how great it is this is the difference so as you can clearly tell it's a massive difference just from hitting one button this will of course depend on the fans you've got on your system and if you have something like a really loud power supply then you will then start to hear this over your case fans but it should give you a good starter for tuning your system to make sure that it's a lot quieter than it was obviously you can make further changes to fine tune everything and you can set fans spin-up speeds and slow down speeds and things like that if you're getting a lot of peaking and there are loads of other things you can do things like get different cases with foam inserts to further reduce the noise but I'm someone that likes to have a nice balance and I think that careful component selection good tuning is all you need to do so I think that's everything really you need to know and everything I have to offer I hope it's been useful if it has hit the like button and subscribe for more videos like this if you have our own tips and tricks please leave them down below always really helpful and it's great to hear your suggestions and obviously help everyone else else a massive thank you to you guys for watching this video of course - asus rog for sponsoring the channel and i'll see in the next one\n"