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is it true that AIOs are louder than air cooling? and what's the difference of AIOs and Watercooling?

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is it true that AIOs are louder than air cooling? and what's the difference of AIOs and Watercooling?

 

AiO' s are all-in-one coolers. Everything you need is preassembled and ready to go. AiO' s are generally louder due to having both fans AND a pump.

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And usually the stock fans on an AIO are just poop

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The quietest air cooler will be quieter than the quietest AIO because even if both fans are silent on both methods the AIO will have the pump pumping water around thus creating noise.

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If you arent gonna hardcore overclock and what pure silence air coolers are what im gonna recommend.

 

But if you wanna push the clockspeeds to the absolute max than water coolers are better imo since they often keep stuff cooler, look better and pump noise isnt much of an issue when the rest of the computer is overclocked and roaring of power.

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The quietest air cooler will be quieter than the quietest AIO because even if both fans are silent on both methods the AIO will have the pump pumping water around thus creating noise.

do you really hear the water pumping? but isn't water cooling supposed to be silent than air cooling?

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do you really hear the water pumping? but isn't water cooling supposed to be silent than air cooling?

That's for custom loops with pumps that cost as much as a full AIO. AIOs have to fit in a rad, block, pump and so on, so the pump is cheap and fairly loud. 

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I've owned an h100i, h80i gt, and a Noctua d15. The h80i gt was the loudest, then the h100i. 

 

I can barely hea my Noctua cooler, which is a big bonus for me because I like my pc to be quiet. Although, it won't be quiet anymore once I get my dual 780ti s

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is it true that AIOs are louder than air cooling? and what's the difference of AIOs and Watercooling?

Depends on which cooler you're talking about... you could always set a fan profile.

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My Seidon 240M has fans and a pump. Even running without the fans attached to the rad, the cooler still makes a little whirring noise from the pump.
 

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more moving parts more noise, there is your fans and then there is the pump. noise is good so you know it's actually working.

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