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I have just taken apart my full watercooled PC and looking to come away from a full loop for cost and ease of upgrading... Now the main target for me is always silence, I want the new PC to be as silent as possible.
So my options are as below:
An AIO cooler, I love the look of these, they keep the case nice and open and I like the way watercooling works in general, but I'm not really sure on pump noise. How is pump noise in modern AIOs? Assuming everything else in the PC was silent would it stand out?
A normal tower cooler, this would be a good choice for me noise wise I think but I'm not a massive fan of the way they look in the case.
A horizontal cooler, are there any downdraft type coolers that are anywhere AIO or good vertical cooler performance wise? I built a PC a while ago with an Akasa Nero and I liked the way it looked in the case but that was a low power CPU and the nero wasn't particularly high performance. I also don't want to run into any issues with ram clearance.
Any suggestions on any of the above would be great. I will likely be overclocking too and will eventually have the PC sat on my desk not too far away.
So my options are as below:
An AIO cooler, I love the look of these, they keep the case nice and open and I like the way watercooling works in general, but I'm not really sure on pump noise. How is pump noise in modern AIOs? Assuming everything else in the PC was silent would it stand out?
A normal tower cooler, this would be a good choice for me noise wise I think but I'm not a massive fan of the way they look in the case.
A horizontal cooler, are there any downdraft type coolers that are anywhere AIO or good vertical cooler performance wise? I built a PC a while ago with an Akasa Nero and I liked the way it looked in the case but that was a low power CPU and the nero wasn't particularly high performance. I also don't want to run into any issues with ram clearance.
Any suggestions on any of the above would be great. I will likely be overclocking too and will eventually have the PC sat on my desk not too far away.