Loud heatsink fan is VERY LOUD

Satoshi McKeown · Aug 21, 2014

Okay so i recently got the gtx 760 from asus. It works great but i think it is warming everything in my computer and then it is causing my cpu fan to run at very high settings. This wouldnt matter so much except i have the heatsink fan that came with my CPU and it is very very noisy at high speeds. I need to know what is a good quiet heatsink fan and would watercooling my cpu be a good way to go?

I have a AMD A-10 7700k
One 140mm coolermaster jetflow for a front intake fan
and two 140mm cougar fans for exhaust fans

volcanoscout · Aug 21, 2014

I'm guessing that you're not overclocking your CPU? If not, then something like this would work:
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/cooler-master-cpu-cooler-rr910htx3g1

You should take a look at your case cooling - if you've got good airflow in your case, your CPU cooler fan and the cooler on your GPU won't have to work as hard and will run quieter.

icraft · Aug 21, 2014

What CPU do you have? For anything around 80-100w I like the 212 or the T40. You also need more case fans for airflow. I saw my GPU temps drop from the 90c area to the mid 60s and my CPU drop by about 10c when I set up my airflow well and I only have 1 case fan.

jossrik · Aug 22, 2014

Water cooling still uses fans to cool, so you're not really getting a good quiet system without putting some work into it. My old 212+ was quieter than my new H100. I can hear my H100 from across the room with the tv on. Couldn't hear my 212+.

icraft · Aug 23, 2014

jossrik :

In my experience that is usually pump noise. I've put silent fans on an H105 and it was still louder than my stock t40.

jossrik · Aug 23, 2014

icraft :

Hehe, the pump is in it's own category. Either way though, still louder than a good air cooler. I like my H100, but the fans are industrial on it, the pump makes it's own noise, the pump with the case all buttoned up you can hear but it's still quiet. The fans though... Not the way to go if you want a silent PC. You can run the pump on low, and you can get silent fans, I have them, just not on my watercooler. I can't hear the fans on the front of my PC, and they are 120mm just like the two on my H100, they have a good CFM, but relatively low static pressure, whereas the H100 fans are high static pressure. It's pretty common sense the more air and turbulence, the louder they tend to be.

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