AIO Coolers

[canadianultra]

Looking to maybe get an all in one cooler. Does anyone have any recommendation? I am more focused on noise than performance, but It needs to still have good overclocking ability 

 

Thanks, canadianultra

[DarrenP]

Looking to maybe get an all in one cooler. Does anyone have any recommendation? I am more focused on noise than performance, but It needs to still have good overclocking ability 

 

Thanks, canadianultra

What's your budget? I recommend the Corsair H100I if you can afford it. Or (Guessing your Canadian) the SwiftechH220. 

[brownninja97]

i will likely never get a rad as i believe they have a lot worse bang for buck. But as for an answer to your question never get a single rad, dual or above, probably best to keep it simple with a h100i.

[canadianultra]

What's your budget? I recommend the Corsair H100I if you can afford it. Or (Guessing your Canadian) the SwiftechH220. 

 

Don;t have a strict budget, but a good price to performance ratio would be good

[legend8887]

Looking to maybe get an all in one cooler. Does anyone have any recommendation? I am more focused on noise than performance, but It needs to still have good overclocking ability 

 

Thanks, canadianultra

H100i.

[HeathCliff]

Corsair H110 or the NZXT Kraken X60 seeing as though the 200R can fit a 280mm rad.

[creativename]

If you want silence, do NOT get the h100i, or any AIO cooler at that. 

 

Custom loops will always be the most silent option, but AIO will always be louder than air coolers.

 

 

If you're set on getting an AIO, you have to give up the noise part, you will hear the pump noise, along with the cheap fans that come with it, unless you add noctua fans or gentle typhoons.

 

 

but anywa, the h100i, and the h80i are louder than all the other AIO options, so if you want an AIO, don't get corsair's h100i or the h80i, get anything else.

[Phage]

Kraken x60

[Prokart2000]

h105 is pretty quiet right

[legend8887]

If you want silence, do NOT get the h100i, or any AIO cooler at that. 

 

Custom loops will always be the most silent option, but AIO will always be louder than air coolers.

 

 

If you're set on getting an AIO, you have to give up the noise part, you will hear the pump noise, along with the cheap fans that come with it, unless you add noctua fans or gentle typhoons.

 

 

but anywa, the h100i, and the h80i are louder than all the other AIO options, so if you want an AIO, don't get corsair's h100i or the h80i, get anything else.

Shut up, none of that is true.

[legend8887]

h105 is pretty quiet right

Silent.

[DarrenP]

Don;t have a strict budget, but a good price to performance ratio would be good

I would say get the H220 than. Solid AIO that can be expanded upon if needed. 

[creativename]

Shut up, none of that is true.

How so? Custom loops are the quietest option, as you can have a large surface area with larger radiators, and have the pump and fans on super low speeds. Air cooling, you can have a large surface area with silent fans. AIO however, you will have limited surface area that will either be equal to or less than a high end air cooler, while being significantly more expensive, while not performing much better, if not slightly worse (NH-D15) and then you have the annoyingly loud pump that you can't reduce, and the cheap fans that come with the AIO coolers. Even if you buy aftermarket noctua fans to make them quiet, you still have the annoying pump noise, and you probably spend double the amount you would have spend on a high end air cooler while not getting any better temps than something like a NH-D14 or a NH-D15.

[DarrenP]

How so? Custom loops are the quietest option, as you can have a large surface area with larger radiators, and have the pump and fans on super low speeds. Air cooling, you can have a large surface area with silent fans. AIO however, you will have limited surface area that will either be equal to or less than a high end air cooler, while being significantly more expensive, while not performing much better, if not slightly worse (NH-D15) and then you have the annoyingly loud pump that you can't reduce, and the cheap fans that come with the AIO coolers. Even if you buy aftermarket noctua fans to make them quiet, you still have the annoying pump noise, and you probably spend double the amount you would have spend on a high end air cooler while not getting any better temps than something like a NH-D14 or a NH-D15.

I can vouch that you don't hear the pump on an AIO. As much as you would hear the pump in a custom loop. 

[creativename]

I can vouch that you don't hear the pump on an AIO. As much as you would hear the pump in a custom loop. 

I have an h100i, and it has a definite pump noise. I RMA'd it about 7 times because the LED on it kept dying, the pump noise is always there.

[DarrenP]

I have an h100i, and it has a definite pump noise. I RMA'd it about 7 times because the LED on it kept dying, the pump noise is always there.

I've had 4 H100I's and never noticed the "pump" noise you speak of. 

[Manny Calavera]

H80i is pretty good bang / buck. But then again you can get really good heatsink for less / same amount of money, so its up to you really.

 

OC3D has benches on coolers, you can check out temp table, you get your info there.

 

There is also option to make it really quiet by adding aftermarket fan(s) on h80i or h100i

[Faa]

I have an h100i, and it has a definite pump noise. I RMA'd it about 7 times because the LED on it kept dying, the pump noise is always there.

 

Same.

 

I've had 4 H100I's and never noticed the "pump" noise you speak of. 

Then your hearing isn't that great as mine. I rma'ed them like more than 10 times and they all were audible so I ended up getting it voltmodded.

@Op I'd rather get a corsair H105 just for the 3pin connector so the motherboard can undervolt the pump speed and its better performance.

[bbqsauce]

Noise level is subjective. How sensitive are you? Will you complain if you hear sounds while poking your head next to your case? Or you simply want your rig to have ambient noise levels?

You would hardly notice noise if your PC is at ambient level. Unless you went to pick out the sound purposely.

Good aio I reccomend: H105? Dead silent with sp120s on a fan curve. Or maybe wait for the new swiftech ones and see how they perform?

[Art Vandelay]

If you want silence, do NOT get the h100i, or any AIO cooler at that. 

 

Custom loops will always be the most silent option, but AIO will always be louder than air coolers.

Custom loops will always be more silent than air coolers when you run them passive because custom loops have pumps, which are silenter than the 0 decibels that an air cooler, running passive, produces. 

[creativename]

Custom loops will always be more silent than air coolers when you run them passive because custom loops have pumps, which are silenter than the 0 decibels that an air cooler, running passive, produces. 

Well, it is true that custom loops have more noise sources than air coolers, but if you run the fan speeds low enough(or not spinning at all most times) I do think that custom loops would be more silent. I might be wrong though. But I do know that AIO is the loudest option.

[Art Vandelay]

Well, it is true that custom loops have more noise sources than air coolers, but if you run the fan speeds low enough(or not spinning at all most times) I do think that custom loops would be more silent. I might be wrong though. But I do know that AIO is the loudest option.

Depends what pumps you use and what speed you run them at. AIO pumps tend to be fairly quiet, and you can downvolt some of them.

 

Generally custom loops are quieter because they cool better, but if you don't care about your overclocks that much, you can run a D14 passive, AFAIK. There are a lot of factors, like custom loops having more fans, tower coolers maybe having some kind of harmonic vibration, but at the end of the day, they can all be pretty quiet, if you make them.

 

I recently switched to an AIO because I have to travel back and forth between cities every school term, so I don't want to carry a computer around with 2kg hanging off the motherboard, or a custom water loop running, The performance boost was pretty good; I think I could do an extra 0.05V or so

[loccilucas]

Looking to maybe get an all in one cooler. Does anyone have any recommendation? I am more focused on noise than performance, but It needs to still have good overclocking ability

Thanks, canadianultra

If you care about noise forget about AIO's completely just get a high end air cooler that will perform the same as a 240mm AIO at half the volume.

[bbqsauce]

If you care about noise forget about AIO's completely just get a high end air cooler that will perform the same as a 240mm AIO at half the volume.

This is a really bold statement.

What makes you say so.

[loccilucas]

This is a really bold statement.

What makes you say so.

ask anyone who has gone from an AIO to a high-end air cooler and they will tell you the same, me also I went from having an AIO a few months ago to a NH-U14s and was absolutely shocked at how quiet it went. Now that I'm used to this volume I can't believe I put up with the AIO for so long. In my opinion watercooling should be done in the form of custom loops, unless you cant afford it and really want it to be watercooled.