On the advice of many, I went and bought a Gelid Tranquillo to replace my Artic Cooling Freezer 64. I thought the Freezer was a bit loud, and I could probably shave a few degrees off my CPU temp as well.
Well, I'm hugely disappointed. Hugely. Not only is the Gelid a lot louder than the Freezer 64, it's not brought temps down (idle is even up a couple degrees), and it's actually too large to fit in my case with the sides on properly.
Basically, I would say a "quiet" cooler is not audible over the other sources of noise (aka in my case a Gigabyte 460OC). If the CPU cooler is louder than the GPU cooler, that's some pretty epic fail right there.
I use Speedfan btw, and have slowed the Gelid to about 80%. It's still far too loud.
Also well recommended were the Sharkoon 2000 rpm fans. I was amazed how loud that thing was. It's now running at 50% under SpeedFan and still I consider it £8 wasted.
Given that I want a genuinely quiet setup, I'd like some proper advice from people with working ears, if possible
The Gelid isn't quiet, but I'd like to find something that is.
Ta!
Well, I'm hugely disappointed. Hugely. Not only is the Gelid a lot louder than the Freezer 64, it's not brought temps down (idle is even up a couple degrees), and it's actually too large to fit in my case with the sides on properly.
Basically, I would say a "quiet" cooler is not audible over the other sources of noise (aka in my case a Gigabyte 460OC). If the CPU cooler is louder than the GPU cooler, that's some pretty epic fail right there.
I use Speedfan btw, and have slowed the Gelid to about 80%. It's still far too loud.
Also well recommended were the Sharkoon 2000 rpm fans. I was amazed how loud that thing was. It's now running at 50% under SpeedFan and still I consider it £8 wasted.
Given that I want a genuinely quiet setup, I'd like some proper advice from people with working ears, if possible
The Gelid isn't quiet, but I'd like to find something that is.Ta!
and whisper silence 
