making a PC quiet for a music studio

[PlanktonSideburns]

ive a gaming pc which i want to chuck into a new music studio, but it makes this constant fan noise, assumedly coming from the graphics card and inbuilt fan

is there any sort of alternative to a fan? i could put it in another room and run cables through, but not conveniently

[Sebastian Cobb]

Water cooling can be quieter (although it'll still have a pump somewhere) but you can get quiet fans to replace your existing ones which will probably be far less of a faff. You can get aftermarket replacement coolers for graphics cards too.

You can also get cases that are meant to be quiet.

[Blumf]

If you don't need the performance, you can get cheap fanless PCs that may fill your general requirements, and only boot the noisy gaming PC to shoot things.

[MojoJojo]

Yeah, I was going to say that while you can make quiet PCs, it's conflicts with the gaming part pretty strongly.

[NoSleep]

ive a gaming pc which i want to chuck into a new music studio, but it makes this constant fan noise, assumedly coming from the graphics card and inbuilt fan

is there any sort of alternative to a fan? i could put it in another room and run cables through, but not conveniently

I bought a couple of long cables and exiled my computer to the hall. I haven't gone as far as drilling a hole in the wall to do this, but that would be the proper way to go.

The biggest noise is probably your hi spec gaming graphics card. Try and find a basic one that doesn't need a built in fan, nor an extra PCI slot as an exhaust; this will save lots on electricity, too. You won't need any fancy graphics card to run music apps.

Also get some closed back headphones (Beyerdynamic DT770 will do the job) to seal out extra noise and very useful for listening in on your mixes.

[PlanktonSideburns]

Yea I think it's gonna be the hole in the wall,  as I'm often running video editing and 3d stuff at the same time as music stuff, so need that noisy ol graphics card

Thanks all!

[Huxleys Babkins]

The good news is, make it big enough and you can use the hole as a glory hole when the PC isn't in use. Win-win as far as I'm concerned.

[NoSleep]

Yea I think it's gonna be the hole in the wall,  as I'm often running video editing and 3d stuff at the same time as music stuff, so need that noisy ol graphics card

In tandem or just multitasking in the background?

[PlanktonSideburns]

In tandem or just multitasking in the background?

yes

sometimes making video content and music at the same time in reaper, and sometimes doing webart/AV type stuff thats somewhere between