SOO I'm in a slight dilemma,
Right now I have an i7 4790k with an h100i on a Maximus Gene VII in a Thermaltake Core V21.
I have a 4.7 overclock on the CPU and good temps with the h100i (Low 60s under load/gaming) and I want to be able to keep that.
I am really going for a quiet build, all of the fans are SP/AF fans running at low RPMs and are nearly silent when doing normal tasks, but obviously it ramps up during load.
TL;DR So i guess the real question is, when my system is at idle, the only thing I can hear is the pump of my h100i. I have looked up issues on the h100i before thinking it could be the pump going, but it is different from the noises people have posted on youtube, etc. and its definitely not air in the loop (I have had that before).
is the h100i pump just relatively loud for a very quiet build? I have thought about going to a different AIO for noise, but now it seems I'm worried about pump noise, will any others actually make a difference? or am I just going to have to deal with the fact there is going to be some noise with water cooling?