Need advice on Moving my noisy PC Tower to another room, keeping my displays and peripherals in the next room

[BillyGhost]

I need some advice.

My PC is in my room, and it is quite noisy. I have 4 displays connected. I would love to move just my tower to the next room so I can sleep while my PC does some updates during the night.

I have explored some options including a Thunderbolt 3 dock, long cables etc, but maybe you know something I don't.

Thunderbolt 3 docks are quite expensive, and finding one with 4 display ports is quite difficult. USB type C docks might work, but also cant find any that support 4 displays, plus finding long USBC cables seems difficult.

I have a laptop, also with only 2 display ports, so that's not ideal.

Display over ethernet is an option, but I can't seem to find docking stations that work over ethernet,

I would love to have a seamless experience where I can game without latency.

The Tower will be about 10 meters away.

Let me know what you guys think?

 

[goldfritter]

I know this doesn't really answer your question... But have you tried making your PC quieter? I have found that running the fans on like 20% barely compromises cooling compared to running them at 50% or even 100%. If you have cheap, loud fans, then buying nicer, quieter fans might be cheaper than the whole dock and cables route. Just a thought.

 

[AresFaithfull]

I reckon @goldfritter is right rather look at some Noctua's or BeQuiet fans and set a proper fan curve or try the Linus thing there are probably new videos after this one on the topic.

 

[BillyGhost]

I know this doesn't really answer your question... But have you tried making your PC quieter? I have found that running the fans on like 20% barely compromises cooling compared to running them at 50% or even 100%. If you have cheap, loud fans, then buying nicer, quieter fans might be cheaper than the whole dock and cables route. Just a thought.

I have considered this, I'll mess around with the fan speeds and see if that works, but there isnt much I can do about HDD noise. I stay in an extremely quiet rural area, so any small noise is a problem. Thanks for the advice.

 

[BillyGhost]

I reckon @goldfritter is right rather look at some Noctua's or BeQuiet fans and set a proper fan curve or try the Linus thing there are probably new videos after this one on the topic.

I have seen the video, but it seems I can buy another GPU with the price of all that equipment 😂 thanks for the advice

 

[Switch]

HDD noise

If your hdd is making a noise, I would think you have much bigger problems than simply noise.

 

[RandomSheepZA]

I have considered this, I'll mess around with the fan speeds and see if that works, but there isnt much I can do about HDD noise. I stay in an extremely quiet rural area, so any small noise is a problem. Thanks for the advice.

If HDD noise is a problem, then how is moving the machine into a different room going to help? If the HDD noise is too much you might consider replacing them for other drives.

 

[Pickled_Dick]

Yeah no,
I worked this out awhile ago and to do this without lag and working properly is so expensive it isn't worth it

 

[SuperLlama]

Convert all HDD to SSD?

 

[BillyGhost]

If your hdd is making a noise, I would think you have much bigger problems than simply noise.

I agree, but they are 3.5" drives, with no important files on there, I'm just using them until they die 🤣.

 

[BillyGhost]

If HDD noise is a problem, then how is moving the machine into a different room going to help? If the HDD noise is too much you might consider replacing them for other drives.

The noise is fine while I'm working on the pc, the problem is while I sleep I'd love to not have a constant wining noise in the back of my brain 🤣. Plus my walls are about a meter thick, I won't hear it in the next room.

 

[BillyGhost]

Convert all HDD to SSD?

This would be ideal.

Anyone care to sponsor me? I can buy a car for the price of replacing all my drives with SSD.

 

[Gareth Thomas]

What about sticking the drives in another cheap pc and using that as a nas in the other room?

 

[shifttymike]

So... maybe I'm giving the obvious answer but you get 20m HDMI cables and active USB2 extensions (10m for USB3).
R1670 later and your PC can be a few rooms away (with a hole or two through the ceiling, 25mm is sufficient for HDMI connector).

 

[RandomSheepZA]

So... maybe I'm giving the obvious answer but you get 20m HDMI cables and active USB2 extensions (10m for USB3).
R1670 later and your PC can be a few rooms away (with a hole or two through the ceiling, 25mm is sufficient for HDMI connector).

For that price you can get a case with sound dampening built in.
Even just go get some of that car dampening that they sell per like 0.5m2
That stuffs works well.

or, turn your pc off?

 

[BillyGhost]

For that price you can get a case with sound dampening built in.
Even just go get some of that car dampening that they sell per like 0.5m2
That stuffs works well.

or, turn your pc off?

Good advice. I do turn my pc off, but want to make use of the pesky night time data