What fan should I get for my PC (the low-humming noise giving me a migraine)

[adrian.u]

Hi, I bought my first PC ever and its fantastic (arrived literally yesterday afternoon). However the one thing i didn't realise was the noise the fans would make, i find the low humming sound to give me a headache and wanted to know what my options are to reduce the sound. I assume the best thing to do is to buy a fan, if so whats the best fan to replace my one? Im not sure if it matters but the case is PCS 6003B BLACK CASE and I think the sound is coming from the heat sink fan

 

[adrian.u]

Well, it could be the CPU fan, GPU fans or it may even just be the case fans (wouldn't be surprising as it is a very cheap case with likely cheap fans in). Is it a constant humming sound or does it go up and down? If it's a fan, the humming should go up and down as the temperature of the CPU and/or motherboard rises and falls.

It's a constant humming but I can barely hear it from the GPU but I haven't used my PC intensely yet

 

[adrian.u]

I've played DotA on it and some indie games so far but nothing else yet, ok I'll do that later thanks

 

[SpyderTracks]

Unfortunately there are 3 areas which are going to be loud, the case plus the cooler plus the PSU.

 

[adrian.u]

The other alternative is to put your phone inside the case and ty to see if you can record the noise...then upload it to a video/audio upload site and post the URL to it here.

The problem is that it's difficult to say without hearing it as a constant hum causing you a migraine may not be audible to someone else....or someone else may call it a whine rather than a hum. Also, if you are susceptibile to migraines then it may be that it's a particular frequency which is causing you issues rather than the noise in and of itself

I am having difficulties trying to upload a video on here however after opening the case an listening in, it is the heat sink fan, which has also started to make a clattering sound, is this normal amongst gaming pc?

 

[SpyderTracks]

Unfortunately it's very budget components that you've selected so they will be loud.

Without hearing the actual noise it's very difficult to give any advice though.

As @Nursemorph says, if you can't upload to the forum, upload somewhere else and post a link.