almost silent air cooling vs almost silent water?

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I've asked before about the best and most silent cpu coolers. But i'm wondering which would give best performance/noise ratio? A air cooler with a silent fan, or a corsair h100 with silent fans? To cool a 4570S 24/7 running. Small form factor. So need to keep the heat down.

Thoughts? View's? Opinions? please :-)

Looking at a the Lian Li PC-V358B
 
With the H100 on silent you won't really hear it anyway, you will probably get more performance out of it in small form factor as you'd have to fit in a pretty huge heatsink to compensate for h100.

But big aircooled heatsinks are always quieter.
 
Got an H100 in my current build. The default fans are not great, I do hear them. But lots of quieter fans. But for £39 for an H100 I think I would be hard to beat it. Noise/performance/price
 
A big air cooler is pointless in that case so a H100 is your best option. If you want it to be near silent, then get some quieter low RPM fans than the stock ones.

Your other option is to get a top down cooler like this: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-014-NC

It won't run as cool as the H100 but since you're not overclocking and just need something quiet, it'll be perfectly adequate and cheaper.
 
Helios1234 said:
A big air cooler is pointless in that case so a H100 is your best option. If you want it to be near silent, then get some quieter low RPM fans than the stock ones.

Your other option is to get a top down cooler like this: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-014-NC

It won't run as cool as the H100 but since you're not overclocking and just need something quiet, it'll be perfectly adequate and cheaper.
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thought i best comment on this one as i have that cooler on my 3570k
been on it since the day i got it, they married now :p
overclocked to 4.5, doesnt go above 70s with just the bottom fan on
and does that while keeping the motherboard cool too :)

i plan on changing it when upgrading, just for looks, going to be a sad day tho i think!
 
darknite said:
I've asked before about the best and most silent cpu coolers. But i'm wondering which would give best performance/noise ratio? A air cooler with a silent fan, or a corsair h100 with silent fans? To cool a 4570S 24/7 running. Small form factor. So need to keep the heat down.

Thoughts? View's? Opinions? please :-)

Looking at a the Lian Li PC-V358B
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In my experience it's always the GPU's which are the painpoints. One of the reasons why I went back to H20 after having my 680's and 780 on air. If you want max graphic performance with silence then you need water.
 
Silence = Custom Loop, l agree GPU's most of the time fans ramping up and down and Pump.

When you water cool both the CPU + GPU as long as you have some air flow. In my case l have just 2 BitFenix Pro 200mm fans on fan controller[ BitFenix Raider case] about half speed roughly 450rpm + 560 Rad 4x1000rpm.

Just about silent, but my DVD-RW is the loudest in my PC, when in use and l can just hear my pump.
 
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