Best Silent Air-Cooler

Bloodshed Romance · September 21, 2014

I got the NH-D15 and just let the bios control the fan speed when the processor gets hot. You could get the BeQuiet one and just do the same thing.. the only way to get true silent is if you do passive which I wouldn't personally recommend eventhough there are some out there..

For the rest of my fans I got Noctua fans (they look like coffee and don't match anything but they are pretty freaking awesome). and just put LNA (low noise adapters) on all of them.. I also did 2 Y splitters and hooked 3 fans to one header on my motherboard so in theory I could just use the motherboard and tune the case fans..

Same for my 2 front intake fans, Y splitter and extender to my 3rd fan header so if I wanted to I could let the motherboard control all my fan speeds and get it as quiet as I want.. but I found that the LNAs do a pretty good job of keeping the noise to a minimum..

if you want even more quiet they make fanless power supplies but I know higher end models will turn the fan off unless at load.

http://www.amazon.com/Zalman-fanless-Heatsink-LGA2011-LGA1366/dp/B00K7290RK/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1411313844&sr=8-9&keywords=fanless+cpu+cooler

http://www.amazon.com/Silverstone-Tek-Heligon-LGA1155-HE02/dp/B009K1PZYG/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1411313880&sr=8-3&keywords=fanless+cpu+cooler

hmm.. heres an "idea" for a quiet PC...

they make fanless CPU heatsinks, fanless power supplies, and fanless graphics card (asus has one here http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-DDR3-Graphics-Card-GT640-DCSL-2GD3/dp/B009TORML8/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1411314298&sr=8-7&keywords=fanless+graphics+card)

while you won't be able to do super gaming on them or anything.. you could put the parts on a open platform or more of a open case and just have passive everything.. let the room take the heat.. hope the room you're in has pretty good airflow cause without it even with passive cooling it would probably heat up at least a few degrees... no idea if this is feasible but in theory its "doable"......

if you weren't looking for max settings gaming you could throw the silent cooler on an AMD APU and goto town... maybe.. idk, it would require testing.. I have a 6800K from the AMD Test drive.. it would be an interesting test to remove all the fans and put a passive heatsink on it and see what happens.. the only fan I couldn't remove would be the PSU unless I bought a new one.. I just moved my Corsair H80 to the 6800K and added 2 noctua fans that ended up not fitting in my main, in the 6800K case..