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Just buy a large AIO water cooler. Replace the included fans with Noctua. That is the full story of how I made my computer silent despite having a CPU with a
by ltbarcly3 3y ago
Just buy a large AIO water cooler. Replace the included fans with Noctua. That is the full story of how I made my computer silent despite having a CPU with a TDP of over 200W.
- _cenw 3y agoDidn't read the article, did you?
- ltbarcly3 3y agoYes?
- _cenw 3y agoBecause OP uses a (mid-sized, but large by most standards) AIO with two Noctua redux PF-12 1700 PWM's. So... your recommendation is the article.
- ltbarcly3 3y agoDid you read my comment? I said buy a large AIO and then don’t do the rest of the article and then it actually is quiet with no effort. Large.
- _cenw 3y agoOh, c'mon, you weren't this specific. And I was. A 240mm rad is large by normal standards. Sure, a 360mm one is larger, but also usually not needed and you are likely to run into clearance issues.
- ltbarcly3 3y agoI mounted it outside the case. Lots of cases have little cutouts to facilitate this. The fact you are sucking hot air into the radiator is probably not helping you. 360mm isn't needed, unless you want it to be quiet...
- jrockway 3y agoI have 8 Noctua fans in my PC and I can tell you they are not silent at 100%. Are they annoying at full power? Not really. But they aren't silent. Thus, fan curves are applied so that when air movement is not required, they aren't running at full speed.
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- dang 3y agoPlease don't respond by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 3y agoPlease don't respond by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- _cenw 3y agoI deny doing this. I provided actual counterexamples of how there is complexity in this topic in the post above.
- dredmorbius 3y ago