Ah, well I don't know what you would call silent and I would call silent, but I'm listening to it right now and currently the ceiling fan I have on in my room is making more noise than my pc, and it's very quiet as well. The slight noise my PC does make is not enough to be noticeable unless I have everything else but it turned off, no music playing, not playing any games, and I'm purposely trying to listen for it. Otherwise, I won't hear it. Of course it's also under a desk so I don't know how much that affects what I hear (probably not a whole lot).