Cpu Cooling Suggestions

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

Hi guys,

 

I have a AeroCool X-Strike GT Case, with all fans installed on it.

This provides fine cooling, however a bit on the loud side.

 

Cpu: AMD FX-8350 (hot cpu, and has max temp 70'C?? WTF?? Intel usually has around 90-100'C?)

Current Cpu Cooler : Asus Silent Knight II.  Copper air cooled heat sink.

 

Which cooling solution would you guys recommend? I MIGHT wanna look a "bit" into overclocking the cpu, maybe to 4.7GHz.

As long as the temps remain cool, i'm fine with it.

Current idle cpu temps are 48'C I think, and load temps around 62'C.

 

I'd really like some kind of water cooler, because i don't want some huge air cooled "block" to fill it all. So points of requirements would be.

 

1. Great cooling

2. Silent (relative to a hairdryer on low :-p)

3. Not fill a lot of space in the case.

 

Is it even possible to fit a watercooled Corsair radiator in this case? There are 2 fan slots in the top where I'd like it to be,

however, the fans are between 2 holed metal parts. Meaning, metal on top and on bottom of fans. So don't know if the radiator can fit there at all.

HEEEEELP :P Ask any info, I'll be glad to provide.

 

 

Was looking into some corsair coolers, dno which one is good bang/buck

 

 

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Finally got to get some pictures while dusting off.

Here's how it currently looks. I Don't even know how to cable manage this, so that it'll be easy to replace parts like powersupply and motherboard unaffected by eachother.

 

Here are the links

 

1 http://i62.tinypic.com/20pbwgz.jpg

2 http://i62.tinypic.com/4l20cw.jpg

3 http://i62.tinypic.com/2hyfi8z.jpg

4 http://i59.tinypic.com/10f0xev.jpg

5 http://i59.tinypic.com/1ggknr.jpg

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Edited March 17, 2015 by Edgar R. Zakarian

[Senzelian]

Cooler Master Nepton 240M
That is a very solid and quiet AIO water cooler.

It shouldn't be a problem if the fans are between two meshed metal plates as long as both parts have the correct holes drilled to put screws through the fans to the radiator to mount it.

[Statik]

Relative to a hairdryer on low? That's not exactly quiet at all.

[The_Mumbler]

I would look into AIOs (All I One) like NZXT Krakens. Linus has plenty of AIO water cooling unit reviews. Corsair makes decent ones but I would recommend an NZXT Kraken if it is compatible. Look into your coolers for compatiblity. Reading up on the case you should be able to fit a RAD in your case if it is 120mm on the back panel if your hardware permits. Good luck!

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

Cooler Master Nepton 240M

That is a very solid and quiet AIO water cooler.

It shouldn't be a problem if the fans are between two meshed metal plates as long as both parts have the correct holes drilled to put screws through the fans to the radiator to mount it.

 

But, so the radiator will be hanging in the case, to the meshed metal plate in the case, and the fans will be on the opposite side, (above the radiator) pulling the air out of it? Is this how it should be fitted? As of right now, it's hard to see how it could fit, because last time i looked into the case, the silent knight 2 was taking up all the space

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

Relative to a hairdryer on low? That's not exactly quiet at all.

 

Nope, it's not. I have an NZXT fan controller,

and its sensors are "taped" to the gpu core, to increase the fan speed whenever the gpu gets too hot,

to provide more air to the system.

And running the fans at around 12-1300 rpm's is pretty loud haha :-D .. It's terrible. -Nothing compared to max speed though.. (18-2000 rpm's)

Some cheap cooler master fans with LED's

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[Edgar R. Zakarian]

I would look into AIOs (All I One) like NZXT Krakens. Linus has plenty of AIO water cooling unit reviews. Corsair makes decent ones but I would recommend an NZXT Kraken if it is compatible. Look into your coolers for compatiblity. Reading up on the case you should be able to fit a RAD in your case if it is 120mm on the back panel if your hardware permits. Good luck!

 

Hmm, will try to look into it. AIO cooling is definitely what I'm looking for.

Easy-to-none maintenance, and quiet performance.

[CBogle]

Your case LOOKS like you could install a Corsair H100i in the top.
If you wanted to go with a Push/Pull configuration in the fans, i would recommend mounting the Pull fans on the top-outside of your case. You would only see them if standing above your case and it you had the right color fans, it would look quite aesthetic.

If you don't think that you would have room for the dual 120mm Rad that comes with the H100i, the H80i can be mounted at the rear exhaust port of your case (that's where mine is mounted in push/pull as i didn't have the room for a rad at my case top)

^^^Linus video on both H80i/H100i

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

I've added some pictures, maybe you guys can get a better look now?
I apologize that it's not tidy.

[skline00]

That's really narrow at the top.