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Wensi
By Wensi
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So I want to make my PC near silent at idle, and I know that by adjusting fan curves I can do that. But, if I set my case fans to not kick in until ~45C will anything bad happen? I also and using a Corsair h100i v2 water cooler for my cpu, so I turn the fans off for it (at idle) will things go badly? I also have a reference GTX 970, so can I turn the fans off (again at idle) and nothing bad will happen? Thanks.

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8 minutes ago, Wensi said:

So I want to make my PC near silent at idle, and I know that by adjusting fan curves I can do that. But, if I set my case fans to not kick in until ~45C will anything bad happen? I also and using a Corsair h100i v2 water cooler for my cpu, so I turn the fans off for it (at idle) will things go badly? I also have a reference GTX 970, so can I turn the fans off (again at idle) and nothing bad will happen? Thanks.

If the motherboard supports it, nothing bad will happen, as long as the pump is going. If the pump isn't running, it could get very hot very quickly.

Main Gaming Rig:

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Core i7-4770, Cryorig M9i Cooler, ASUS B85M GAMER, 8GB HyperX Fury Red 2x4GB 1866MHz, KFA2 GTX 970 Infin8 Black Edition "4GB", 1TB Seagate SSHD, 256GB Crucial m4 SSD, 60GB Corsair SSD for Kerbal and game servers, Thermaltake Core V21 Case, EVGA SuperNOVA 650W G2.

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i5-2500k OCed, Raijintek Themis, Intel Z77GA-70K, 8GB HyperX Genesis in grey, GTX 750 Ti, Gamemax Falcon case.

 

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3 hours ago, Wensi said:

So I want to make my PC near silent at idle, and I know that by adjusting fan curves I can do that. But, if I set my case fans to not kick in until ~45C will anything bad happen? I also and using a Corsair h100i v2 water cooler for my cpu, so I turn the fans off for it (at idle) will things go badly? I also have a reference GTX 970, so can I turn the fans off (again at idle) and nothing bad will happen? Thanks.

No, you're fine, depending on the room temp, the fans might turn on even at idle. But there's no problem.

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