CPU Water Cooling Decision

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Roobir

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Hi gents,

I currently have a Cooler Master Hyper 212 X on my AMD FX-8350, which has a bit of heat troubles since last year's summer. The heat is acceptable (below 70c) but the noise is getting to me. Previously, the machine was loving the air conditioned coldness blowing on to it, and didn't get too loud. Now it isn't in the air con room anymore and the heat + noise isn't too much fun.

I am thinking to go for a water cooling solution, one of these all-in-one kits, such as:

Cooler Master Seidon 120V
Antec KUHLER H20 650
Thermaltake 3.0 Performer

What do you guys think about these? The CM Seidon is about R650, which is quite a nice price. Do you suggest I rather get something else?

Kind regards,
Roobs
 
Water cooling still makes noise hey, you still need a bunch of fans for the radiator.
 
I don't have any problems with mine I just have a schit case that I am using at the moment (BitFenix Phenom), but when I am running it in my Coolermaster Sniper...it works a charm.

However, the noise that I am experiencing is coming solely from my GFX card.
 
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GreyBush said:
Water cooling still makes noise hey, you still need a bunch of fans for the radiator.
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My H100 is pretty much silent on the lowest setting on my OCed Haswell E, and was also quiet on my old I7. So I would say go for it. It is quieter than my old Noctua which is running on my Fiances box next to my PC
 
GreyBush said:
Water cooling still makes noise hey, you still need a bunch of fans for the radiator.
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For water cooling you'd only need 1 fan, 2 max, and it's much quieter than these fans that spin up the higher the temp you get
 
I am in a similar situation now as well. Any advice would be great.

I have the Coolermaster N300 with 1 rear exhaust fan. I have an MSI R9 270 twin frzr IV which is really weird. The fans rarely get past 20% speed and the GPU is hitting 60degrees. The minute i up the fans it comes down to 37degrees. Anyway, due to this the ambient temp in my box increases and my CPU (i5 4440) fan is always at 100% while the temp on the cpu sits from 58-60 degrees. While I know this isn't exorbitantly high, the noise does get to me. Was considering a cheapish seidon 120v from TakeAlot for R550 (also have some vouchers to bring the cost down).

I dont notice the noise when im listening to music on my headphones, but when its off, its really loud. Is it worth the closed system for such a low end cpu? Just to bring temps down slightly and reduce the noise?
 
Closed Loop coolers are beneficial where the ambient room temperature is lower than the case temperature and you don't have efficient air movement in the Case. So you'd likely both see benefit in moving over to it. Get something with big radiators and multiple fans,bigger the better (the passive cooling potential means you'd need less fan RPMs to cool it down). Along with that you might want to consider a good set of fans rather than the ones that come with the rads
 
Corsair i80?

Also its sounds like OP's CPU is overheating, could be bad thermal paste.

As or my ambient temp its about 28C and my CPU stays very cool and quiet idle and underload (with stock cpu fan).
 
I have the Corsair H80 and you barely notice the fan. I would suggest a closed look cooler over a big air cooler any day.
 
So I had to go back to my stock cooler because the Lian Li PC-C60 doesn't support it.
 
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