Looking for a 'silentish' AIO to replace Swiftech H240 X2

doyll · 5 Apr 2018 at 17:35

Perfect_Chaos said:
Not water cooling anything at the moment lol, gave up on cooling my GPU after what happened with my Eiswolf, i might try again sometime but likely only with a hybrid type which looks really easy to fit in comparison. I'll likely end up doing the CPU at least though.

My Luxe is air cooled. 2x front and 1x bottom intakes and it's cool and quiet. It's my sig rig except in Luxe instead of Primo.

TheVoice · 5 Apr 2018 at 18:33

doyll said:
Just because it's doing the job does not mean it's good. If you had more experience with real water cooling you would understand why 99.9999% of experienced water coolers do not like or want anything to do with Asetek OEM coolers. Alphacool is now sell a much better cooler with threaded fittings, copper radiator higher flow rate pump, quick connect for adding another component and a fill port. for less than the cost of your H115i with no way to do anything to it but change fans. Only reason I can see for a much better quality AIO costing so much less is Asetek, Corsair and others have been making a huge amount of profit selling CLCs.

I shall bow to your superior knowledge and experience then. All I know is it received good reviews, was praised for being low-noise and was the ideal unit for my build. If I'd gone for a non-windowed case I'd have probably looked at the uglier and cheaper options but aesthetics were inevitably a factor.

Perfect_Chaos · 5 Apr 2018 at 19:13

TheVoice said:
I shall bow to your superior knowledge and experience then. All I know is it received good reviews, was praised for being low-noise and was the ideal unit for my build. If I'd gone for a non-windowed case I'd have probably looked at the uglier and cheaper options but aesthetics were inevitably a factor.

Easy enough to change the looks on some of them, www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIwMPqpHl6k

Mr Carrot · 11 Apr 2018 at 08:53

doyll said:
D15 is a very good cooler and will serve you better than even the best AIO will. Even your H240 X2 is only slightly better than D15 if your case airflow is optimized so cooler is using air at or near room ambient.

What do you mean by 'NSO'?

http://fanlessfan.com/ this pc fridge thing, kickstarted ages ago

Ross Thomson · 18 Apr 2018 at 08:54

Mr Carrot said:
Quietness is key.

depends on the fans you use and what you are using the computer for. Since you already have a half decent air cooler to use, I would just use that rather than spending cash. I don't hear either of my AIO/CLC pumps while the fan curve for the GPU is low and the fans for the CPU only spin up to my max setting when the computer is using 80-100% of CPU (all cores). For gaming they spin around 800rpm with a temp of 40C (ambient 20) on my O/C ryzen 1700.