How the hell do you make a system quiet?
All my fans are set to low but I can still hear a buzz.
How the hell do you make a system quiet?
Go fanless.
Yea but the power supply?
I had the same cpu fan on my old fx 6350 that thing was like a jet engine. Get a 212 evo.
There are fanless power supplies.
That said there are many quiet fans (like the ones that be quiet makes) that are quiet enough to not bother anyone, unless you really want perfect silence (in that case you'd also have to rid of hard disks and use only SSDs).
get a noise insulated case
get better fans
my pc has 8 fans, literally can't hear anything
Use PWM fans that can share single header, like AC F series.
Install speedfan and make speed/temp curves.
Have antec 300 with 5fans+cpu+gpu+psu and it's almost completely silent@idle. Biggest noise is occasional click from 2.5 drive.
I know nothing about fans, how do I find electrically compatible ones?
How do I know a fan is quiet?
You can get a powersupply that only turns the fan on if you use more than a certain percentage, use one of those and don't use too much power.
I can only afford several fans or some insulating material at the moment.