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I can physically feel if my fan is spinning. Getting a couple of points more in some benchmark I can not feel. I prefer quiet.
by ant6n 11y ago
I can physically feel if my fan is spinning. Getting a couple of points more in some benchmark I can not feel.
I prefer quiet.
- agumonkey 11y agoAlso, even though I loved fanless, low heat electronics. The lack of noise (or even LEDs) disturbs me. I liked these communication sidechannels.
- PaulHoule 11y agoWater cooling.
- rglullis 11y agoIt was a painful and costly (+$150) lesson for me to learn that most of the watercooling systems are actually louder than standard fans. A few years ago I built a pretty awesome-looking, water-cooling machine, and just the noise of the water pump was louder than anything I had before. The fans I needed to the radiator also were just as loud as my previous GPU fan.
- seanp2k2 11y agoYeah, big air cooling has come a long way. My i5-2500k on a stable 4.5ghz with 2 Radeons is nearly silent (thanks Antec Sonata + extra acoustic damping sheets inside). It's hard to beat a NH-D15 these days, and phase change is an order of magnitude more costly.