I have moved my pc into my lounge and need to make it quieter when gaming. Is watercooling the answer or do you still need to jack up the speed of the fans to keep heavily overclocked items cool? My current rig is brilliant at keeping things cool but when gaming I have to jack the fans up quiet high which gets noisey. Might just be the brand of fans I have or is watercooling what I should start switching to?
Less Noise = watercooling?
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i wouldnt go to watercooling just yet, i would upgrade your fans to good quality fans and then see if that solves the problem
if you then do decide to go watercooling, you have good fans for push/pull on your watercooling
The main fans which are noisey in my case are 4 x Scythe Kaze Jyuni 1900RPM Slip Stream which are on my sidepanel and cool my gpu's nicely, Maybe I would be better of getting a Big 230mm fan like this BitFenix Spectre 230mm ?
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Noise was one of the main reasons i watercooled, gpu and cpu cooler fans would drive me nuts and the pc is in the lounge and also used for film. I opted for a low fpi rad (sr1-420) and large 140mm fans running at 600rpm on a controller which have resulted in a near silent pc. It's so quiet i can hear the reader head move on my samsung f4 storage drive. I have also maintained a healthy 4.2ghz overclock with these components and have pushed as far as 4.55ghz for benching using the same fans at 1000rpm.
yes water cooling will help with noise, my fans are at 600 rpm, the loudest part of my pc is the actual pump now as I didn't mount it too cleaver, once i sort that it will mainly be as above and hear the mechanical drive moving
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My water cooling machine runs hot and loud and this is my 3rd attempt, don't know what I'm doing wrong!
I'm cooling an AMD Phenom II X6 1055T @ 3.5GHz and a GTX 480 using a SR-1 360 & EK 120mm rad and if I have my Gentle Typhoons running quiet the temps are really bad. If I turn the fans up they are really loud (at 1850rpm) and the temps are still rubbish.
I'm cooling an AMD Phenom II X6 1055T @ 3.5GHz and a GTX 480 using a SR-1 360 & EK 120mm rad and if I have my Gentle Typhoons running quiet the temps are really bad. If I turn the fans up they are really loud (at 1850rpm) and the temps are still rubbish.
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Back when I had watercooling the only noise coming from the PC was a quiet trickle of water.. very relaxing. This was back in the days of socket A where I guess the CPUs put out less heat.
I have a fan controller a Lamptron Fan-Atic: 5-port which is awesome as it has 60w per channel so fans can run at there full speed, but it only has 3 settings either off/low/high no medium fan setting so I might buy the Lamptron FC9 instead and see if that helps so I can fine tune the fans as my temps are brilliant especially at this time of year so can afford a medium setting when gaming.
When my main PC was in the living room and I used it for everything, the sound of it drove me mad.
So - I went for watercooling. Especially with the small HTPC-style case I had, fitting more or better air coolers was pretty much impossible.
I put my CPU and VGA cards under water, with a 360 rad, and at the time, only a single 120mm fan, and it kept it cool and quiet - the loudest thing then was the hard drive.
So - I went for watercooling. Especially with the small HTPC-style case I had, fitting more or better air coolers was pretty much impossible.
I put my CPU and VGA cards under water, with a 360 rad, and at the time, only a single 120mm fan, and it kept it cool and quiet - the loudest thing then was the hard drive.
i thought that newer processors (i.e. smaller die sizes) were cooler?
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watercooling is def the way forward as people have said lower fan rpms better oc and better temps
Socket A was 80W or less.
A smaller cooler chip can have the same processing power now.
But no one wants such a crap chip, the equivalents now of what those chips were back then are much hotter.
As for watercooling being quieter... if you have the space for large radiators and many slow fans then yes.
If you're using small rads and high flow fans to keep the temps down because you don't have space for a bigger rig then its unlikely to be any quieter than an air cooled rig.
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Yeh I need it a lot quieter plus I love tinkering with things so building/optimizing a watercooled pc might keep me amused whilst its to cold outside for my other hobby rc cars.
im air cooling a 1055T and its pretty quiet @ 3.7GHZ stock voltage with an OC`d 5850 my temps are great in summer cpu is not over 42 from memory and gpu is max 68-70deg
I do have a fan controller though too to balance out other fans of which i have two top, 1 back and two front.
my issue with all in one water cooling systems like H50, H100 is that there isnt a fan dragging air over the other components that also get hot and you still need the same or more fans on the rad even if they are lower rpm the rad can sometimes also cover the exit area for warm air for the rest of the system too exit from.
Still im interested in a water cooling setup more for the GPU as thats always the noisiest part of a system imo and id one day like to get a block on a nice shinny next gen card
Your right you should always have a good airflow case which is why I'm going for the Xigmatek Elysium and fans don't have to be on high for good airflow. My current case has brilliant airflow but my gpu's still need more which is why I'm wanting a watercooled rig. I also have a fan controller but that still doesn't help when things are overclocked so high they produce a lot of heat and need High fan settings or watercooled. I have considered Just putting my gpu's under water as my H50 is doing a good job but then I think whats the point when a custom water setup should hopefully do better.
Depends how you mount it really.
You could just as easily say a very large air cooler doesn't blow air over components.