Noisy Fan

[venerablebede]

Hi All

I bought some components from overclockers and assembled a PC. One of the components was a Corsair Hydro H50 Liquid CPU cooler. I bought this because I thought it would be a quiet device but sadly I was wrong. I have put up with it for about 3 years now but have now started recording music on my pc which means that on occasions I need to use a microphone in the same room as the pc.
To cut a long story short the fan for the H50 is too loud and I need some alternative.

Can anyone recommend a solution?
It doesn't have to be a water cooling system. Just some way of affordably cooling my I7 quietly.

My system consists of the following :
Corsair Hydro H50-1 High-Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/1155/1156/1366/AM2/AM3)
Intel Core i7 950 3.06GHz (Bloomfield) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard

Thanks in Advance

 

[Doomedspeed]

Why don't you just get a new fan. I have a pair of sp120's on a h50 and they are lovely. Shame my gpu is quite loud.

 

[IncognitoX]

Just order the same sized fan with silent in the title. If its too loud balance the speed with your preference with sound, and your good to go

 

[venerablebede]

Why don't you just get a new fan. I have a pair of sp120's on a h50 and they are lovely. Shame my gpu is quite loud.

I take it these are the ones
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-009-CS
I know it's a silly question but how quiet is quiet?

Will one of these fit ok?
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-023-BQ&groupid=701&catid=2331&subcat=4
I'm happy spending the extra if it works well and fits over the H50.

 

[Tonester007]

I also have a Corsair Hydro in my PC. Imho most of the noise comes from the water pump and not the fan attached to the radiator. I can reduce the pump noise by reducing the "CPU Fan speed" using the software that came with my mobo.

 

[Cyber-Mav]

got a fan going up against a rad, then use the gentle typhoon.