Will aftermarket cooler be more silent?

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So, I have an AMD FX CPU, with a stock cooler on it. It gets pretty loud when I'm gaming & the fan kicks in.

I was just wondering, if I swap out the stock cooler for an aftermarket cooler, will it be more silent?

I'm new to PC building so I've never tried any aftermarket CPU coolers, so I have no idea how loud they are, but I'm assuming they are more quiet than the stock, right?

Also, if you could give me some suggestions on which aftermarket cooler to go with? Preferably one that is quiet, but also cools well? Thanks in advance.
 
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You can look at the all in one water coolers like Corsair Hydro H60 or the like, there are about a dozen that are the same. Your case has 2x120mm spacing at the top, but it's not side by side so the bigger water cooler radiators would be out of the question so you need something in 1x120mm footprint to go at the back of your case.

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/nzxt-cpu-cooler-krakenx40 Thig guy here has gotten good reviews and it doesn't matter about space for the cooler and ram and such.
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What cooler depends on what you want to spend. For $30 the Hyper Evo 212 is the best. It will cool better which means the fans won't have to run as fast and not be as loud. The fan it comes with is a lot quieter than the stock fan. You can also put more quiet fans on the Evo, go water cooling, all kinds of options, comes down to what you want to spend, what case you have, ram etc. the Evo 212's can sometimes have a problem if your RAM is in the slot closest to the CPU and has the big tall heatspreaders on it.
 
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Thanks man, good advice and suggestions.

As far as spending goes, I don't want to spend a whole bunch of money, but at the same time I'm willing to spend a decent amount to upgrade it, because I would like the additional cooling. I would say under $100 though, cheaper the better though because I'm not in a great place financially.

I have a Source 220 case (Which I believe is a mid-tower) and my RAM is G. Skill Ripjaw X series, so the heat spreaders on them are kinda tall, at least in my opinion.

I wouldn't be opposed to water cooling, the only problem is, I have no idea how to set up a water cooling system.
 
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You can look at the all in one water coolers like Corsair Hydro H60 or the like, there are about a dozen that are the same. Your case has 2x120mm spacing at the top, but it's not side by side so the bigger water cooler radiators would be out of the question so you need something in 1x120mm footprint to go at the back of your case.

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/nzxt-cpu-cooler-krakenx40 Thig guy here has gotten good reviews and it doesn't matter about space for the cooler and ram and such.
 
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That sounds good, I like that cooler you linked, I hear great things about the Kraken. I just have a question about water coolers like this one, are they pretty quiet? I would assume they would because the liquid does most of the cooling so the fan doesn't need to pump much, but I wanted to ask someone who has used them before.

Thank you very much though, You have been very helpful, I would have never figured any of this out on my own haha. I will definitely look into both options for cooling. I would love to get that Kraken cooler but I'm not sure if I'll have the money, so I may have to get something like that Hyper Evo 212 in the mean time.
 
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These liquid coolers are closed loop coolers, they don't have to be opened or filled or anything that a normal water cooler does. They are no harder to install than the Evo. A top end air cooler in the $60 range will be about the same cooling at a $60 closed water cooler. The closed water coolers let you move the rad and heat though better away from the case, and look neater without a massive block in the middle of your case. To get the real benefit of water cooling, you do need a couple hundred dollar plus system to get started. The H60 is pretty close to the Kraken and a lot cheaper.
 
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It depends on the fans. Fans on a water cooler runnign at full are going to be just as loud as fans running on a air cooler. Fan's are fans and their noise is their noise regardless of what cooler they are on.
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Yes but a good air cooler, like the Noctua NH D14 has fans which max out at like 1300-1600 RPM while the speeds of the water cooler's fans spin much faster, resulting in more noise. It's in the graphs on the page above that I linked to above.

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Stock fan that come with it, yes. Put the Noctura fan's on a water cooler and it will sound the same. The exact model fans won't get 10x louder on a water cooler. Compare apples to apples.
 
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Stock fan that come with it, yes. Put the Noctura fan's on a water cooler and it will sound the same. The exact model fans won't get 10x louder on a water cooler. Compare apples to apples.
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The water cooler radiators require high speed/high static pressure fans to achieve equivalent performance to the NH D14. Put a slow speed, quiet fan on an H100i and the cooling performance will not be there.

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This is all very interesting & useful, I will definitely look at that article you linked, and do extensive research before I buy any coolers.

I am still liking the idea of a water cooler, because I would like to get into overclocking, and my rig doesn't have a whole lot of air cooling in it, and I live in a hot climate, so I think water cooling will work best for my situation.

Plus I feel like water cooling will keep my CPU cooler overall, and thus the fan won't need to run at full speed, thus making it quieter (as was already stated).
 
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