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I don't really understand the allure of going entirely fanless. Adding a couple of fans that spin so slowly they're inaudible makes a huge difference in cooling

I don't really understand the allure of going entirely fanless. Adding a couple of fans that spin so slowly they're inaudible makes a huge difference in cooling efficiency, with no real downside. For example, I use one of these.[1] It's several years old, but it does a good job of cooling, can't be heard, and doesn't fill up the whole damn case like that one you linked to... I can only imagine newer heatsink/fan designs are even better. [1]http://noctua.at/en/nh-u12p http://noctua.at/en/nh-u12p

ReidZB 10y ago
I don't personally run a fanless build... I use the design I mentioned at the end of my post, liquid cooling with almost silent fans (Noctua brand, like you linked). The defining feature of a fanless build really is cost. It's hard to build a machine that will stay silent under load for cheaper than the heatsink I linked above. At the same time, fanless builds don't dissipate enough heat to enable high overclocking (so you can't eke out the same performance as you could using fans).