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[fliberdygibits]

I'm new to Tom's and out of practice to PC building in general. I've found myself for the last half dozen years or so living off a laptop. Now while a laptop is nice I finally got the bug to build a system again. I've kept my toes at least vaguely in the water but I'm still iffy on many points. So my question: My basic system is built and running, I'm posting from it now. MSI Mother board Radeon 6870HD and a 5830. The big card is running 3 22 inch monitors on mydesktop, the smaller card is just to spit out a HDMI signal to a LCD TV nearby..... not the greatest solutions maybe but it works Anyhow..... 16G ram, 60Gig Sata III SSD and twin 1.5TB HDDs. I've got 3 computer controlled 120 mm case fans, the GPU fans, the CPU fan the power supply fans and oh....a 6 Core 3.4Ghz (3.6??) Phenom II. When I crank up a game or sometimes even when I don't it sounds like a freaking hovercraft. I have no intention of Overclocking but I'm curious..... is water cooling completely over the top for noise reduction or is there a better easier way that will still keep my investment from baking itself?

Thanks

 

[ivanmel97]

Hi!!!

That's what you really get when you would be using an air-cooled system......A water-cooled system would be great and you wont have to worry about noise and heat problems.....not just that, you could also OC and crank up you rig if you want to....
BTW....maybe you're interested on this
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/hardcorepc_reactor

 

[Dogsnake]

Maybe you can isolate what piece of hardware is making the increase. If it is the cpu fan, a quality air cooler may do the trick. If it is the gpu's there are air and water solutions. I would suggest reading up a bit, there are pluses and minuses to both routes.

 

[rubix_1011]

Please read through the watercooling sticky linked below in my signature...this might help answer some of your initial questions and give you an idea of what you can and should expect.