Quietest Cooling

well the quietest would be water cooling, but depends what road you want to go down? for air i'd personally say the freezer 64pro should allow you to overclock nicely!
 
I use the Thermaltake sonic tower with a 120mm fan at 5v . cant hear it at all and cpu stays cool . if u want to overclock just set the fan to 12 v. at 5v cpu run at 46c full load 37 idle with case at 32c. :cool:
 
with my scythe ninja at 12v i run 47c load @ 3ghz on my s939 opty, currently idling at 32c.



Dont forgot the case cooling is also very inportant. No point in gettings a big quiet cooler for the cpu if you have noising case cooling. I have 1x120mm at the fron, 1x on the scythe, 1x on the rear of the case and 1x in the psu. they all run below 1400rpm and they are the only fans in my pc. Its very quiet:)
 
ErNciLator said:
Freezer pro is quite loud irrc, had it before, does water cooling have many/any fans?
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urm depends on your interpretation of loud? i bought a freezer 64 pro and thought it was crazy silent, currently running a TT big typhoon with a 120mm panaflo m1A think they are rated at about 36db and i still wouldn't class it as loud? yes it's audible but hardly loud
 
Watercooling has a pump which can be noisy. A silent solution has to be a passive cooling solution. You can dump your PC in baby oil for instance?

Best bet is probably the sonic tower, just as wizardmaxx suggests. However, you will NEED good case cooling to make quiet air cooling work for an overclock.

//edit: should really proof read my posts...
 
Chris Beard said:
Watercooling has a pump which can be noisy. A silent solution has to be a passive cooling solution. You can dump your PC in baby oil for instance?

Best bet is probably the sonic tower, just as wizardmaxx suggests. However, you will NEED good case cooling to make quiet air cooling work for an overclock.

//edit: should really proof read my posts...
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Depends on the pump. A Laing DDC will be quieter than your hard drives...
 
ErNciLator said:
Freezer pro is quite loud irrc, had it before, does water cooling have many/any fans?
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I have to agree with him, dont know what components you guys use in your pc but by far the arctic cooler is the loudest thing in my pc, soo much so that i let speedfan run it at 50% speed until it heats up then make it run faster.
Rest of my pc has 4X80mm sharkoon 80mm, 1X sharkon 120mm and a VF900 running a little faster than slowest, by far the loudest thing in my pc is the arctic cooler.

I'd get a Scythe Ninja - because you can just buy what 120mm fan you want on it, or wait for a tuniq tower on ocuk like i'am and run the stock fan a little slower via speedfan until it hots up (only time it hots up enough is games, when you have your speaking blaring anyways).
 
I've got a Zalman Reserator 1 on a AMD Athlon 2600+ (at stock speeds) which sits under the tv in the living room - its pretty quiet. The only noise comes from the PSU fan (an enermax turned right down) and a low speed 80mm fan which I positioned over the chipset just to get some airflow in the case.

The seagate disk is silent (and enclosed in one of those enclosures), and the reserator pump is so quiet you can't actually tell if its on - I pinch the tube and see the flow "meter" move to tell its working!

Anyway the reserator seems to cool the PC satisfactory - although the water seemed to get quite warm in the summer. Its also just used as a PVR so its not exactly kept cranked up all the time.
 
i can't believe you people are saying the ac64 pro is loud? :rolleyes: i was amazed at how quiet it was, if you heard my system you would probably keel over lol, i'm running a panaflo m1A at 12v and two of the 125cfm ys-tech's at 7v and i wouldn't class my system as loud? as i stated earlier it's audible but by no means an annoyance, the way i see it is that i never really hear it as i'm either gaming with headphones on or listening to music through speakers! so it's only those around me who i annoy with the fans :p
 
The sonic tower was designed to be a passive cooler, with the option to put a 120mm fan on it. Saying that the design has to be efficient and the fan is really only required for high power cpus and overclocking. I can confirm that the cooler works fine with a celeron D 2.53 with no fan, but gets to about 63c on load. Overclocked to 3.2 it seldom goes over 46c with the 120mm fan running at 5v, at full load. I didnt use the supplied brackets to fit the fan as I had one that fitted perfectly inside between the two sets of towers. If you had to use a silent 120mm fan at 12v it would cool even better and i think the conroe uses less power than the celeron anyway so would run cooler.
 
Chris Beard said:
Ahh, but not if you dump your hard drives in baby oil!
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Yes, because then they will stop working....

:p

Thermalright Ultra-120 coupled with a Nexus 120mm fan @7v cools well and is insanely quiet.

SAm C
 
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