Help me choose a quiet AMD cooler

WolfyUK

WolfyUK

WolfyUK

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I replaced all my case fans with Arctic P12s. I added a few more. The case was lovely and cool. My housemate complained that he could tell that my PC was running from the literal cold feet from the near-silent draft.

And then I dropped in the 3600 with stock Stealth cooler.

Stealth, my ass. Now my PC sounds like a 747 taking off.

What cooler would you suggest which is reasonably quiet (or has a big heatsink I can drop some more P12s on) and will be future-proof? Plan is to either pick up a 39** when they drop in price, or a 4000.
 
doyll said:
You are not the first one to complain about stock cooler noise. ;) What case and case fan setup do you have?

I've just received and setup my 3600K and am in the process of experimenting with some of the AMD mount coolers I have on hand. So far only ran D15I staying about 70-ish peaking at 83 at 100% CPU load, single NF-A14 fan running about 800rpm. Definitely one of the bigger coolers, but obviously quite low fan speed. This is open bench with 140mm fan flowing air over system as well. Want to keep this running for a couple days before I switch coolers to be sure everything is working as it should.
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I'm running a CoolerMaster CM II (from memory) with three P12s in (front and bottom) and two P12s out (rear and top). Runs very cool and quiet.

This is my first foray into AMD CPUs for a very long time, so I didn't have anything but the stock cooler to hand. Knew it wasn't that popular but holy crap, it's loud. Really not used to the bursting behaviour either.

Gray2233 said:
My basket at overclockers uk:
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Man, be quiet! really like their rocks! I'll have a look at those, thanks.
 
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