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What is THE quietest way to cool a GPU?

wunkley

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I can't seem to find a definitive answer to this, but I want to ask only between hybrid AIO coolers and air coolers (I don't want to go a full custom watercooling set up)

Hybrid AIO solutions I thought would be ideal, but I understand they're not totally silent? There is still a fan, and you also get noise from the pump? I've never heard one so have no idea

For air cooling the ACX top down fans are the best and quitest I believe? But, I want to have SLI as an option, so 2 of these aren't the best compared to exahaust fans.

At the moment I'm using 2 reference exhaust 780Ti in SLI. To keep temps down the fans have to go quite high, and I find it too loud. I want some peace, so what's the best solution???

If I keep my 780Tis I'm thinking of getting the corsair n780 brackets and a couple of corsair H55s. If I get new card(s) likely 980TI, what would you buy in terms of cooling style?
 
Easy - passive. The downside being you can't cool the higher power options that way. For your needs big aftermarket air coolers probably won't be feasible due to SLI so an AIO would be a good option though not totally silent for the reasons you identified (pump will always be running even when under very little load, fan can be semi-passive tho)
 
For SLI the best option is either a custom loop or an AIO like the EVGA hybrid.
For single card you have many near silent options, ACX, Twin Frozr and others.
 
If he can fit those in with enough gap in SLI then certainly I'll :+1: that suggestion. Case airflow would presumably need to be decent with two of them dumping heat into it but if the case is decent should be doable.
 
Thanks for the replies chaps. Obviously passive cooling is out ;-)

I think I'm swinging towards going the AIO route as I've never tried water cooling. But, are they quiet. I'm guessing the fan on them runs slow and is fairly quiet but what about this 'pump noise' I hear mentioned?
 
wunkley said:
Thanks for the replies chaps. Obviously passive cooling is out ;-)

I think I'm swinging towards going the AIO route as I've never tried water cooling. But, are they quiet. I'm guessing the fan on them runs slow and is fairly quiet but what about this 'pump noise' I hear mentioned?
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Normally on the better priced aio things be silent.
 
flopper said:
Normally on the better priced aio things be silent.
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Are Corsair considered To be the good/ best ones? Was thinking of trying out a h55 with the soon to be released Corsair n780 bracket on one of my 780Tis.

If the h55 is good, if I switch to 980Ti I could just keep the h55 and get a new corsair bracket for the 980ti, when they are released. And they should play nice in SLI
 
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