Fans and cooling

[BORN A REBEL]

What type of brand is good for computer fans and which one is better, regular fan or liquid cooling, give your opinions and please state why

[ReGIONALS]

liquid cooling is better at keeping your computer cool but killer on the pocket

[RedOctober]

be specific?

fans for your case? cpu? gpu? memory? hard drive?

 

if you want a good answer ask specific questions.

the difference between air cooling and water cooling is that water cooling is much more effective but a bitch to set up and is ultra quiet but really pricey.

[PotshotPolka]

be specific?

fans for your case? cpu? gpu? memory? hard drive?

 

if you want a good answer ask specific questions.

the difference between air cooling and water cooling is that water cooling is much more effective but a bitch to set up and is ultra quiet but really pricey.

 

If you invest in liquid cooling its for your whole system even though it still helps to have fans.

[Shadowex3]

Liquid cooling is a misnomer, there's really only two types of cooling: Active and Passive.

 

All active cooling uses some method of getting your below room temperature. It also costs more than most parts and will tend to be unstable and require a lot of work to be safe (even those little self-contained thermal chips need you to waterproof a lot of stuff). Since you're not spending $4000 or more on your computer and doing world-championship benchmarking we won't worry about it, this stuff damages your shit getting it that cold anyway.

 

Passive cooling is anything that uses a heatsink to keep a part at the most down to room temperature. Heatsink towers and water cooling both use heatsinks (water cooling calls them radiators) and they both cannot break the laws of physics, no matter what you WILL be limited to your ambient temperature at the very lowest. SInce computer hardware tends to run at 30deg CELCIUS at its lowest that's perfectly fine, they like that temperature range.

 

Liquid cooling USED to be better because it could transfer more heat faster, now that heatpipe technology has been worked on for a while it's not worth it. A $70 heatsink that comes with two fans already on it (the noctuas for example) will perform just as good as a $250+ water cooling setup with a LOT less work and require virtually no maintenance beyond brushing the dust out periodically.

 

Generally the Noctua Uh-12P (think i got that name wrong) and the Thermalright Ultra 120 series are considered the top of the line for heatsinks.

 

 

Now. Fans. There's three kinds: Damn Near Silent, Quiet with good airflow, and Delta Screamers. We're talking about 120mm fans because nothing else is worth it, anything smaller is too loud and high pitched and bigger is... well its too big. Noctua fans are unhearable and move very little air, Yate Loons (they're neon orange if they're real) are kinda hard to find genuine ones but are widely considered the best for most people, and Delta makes high end "screamer" fans that move shittons of air but also are easily over 100 decibels and capable of truly physically harming you if you touch them while they're on.

 

If you want to get some yate loons. Otherwise generic 120mm fans like cooler master 4packs from SVC.com are usually good enough. Noctua's heatsinks come with their own fans specially tuned for the heatsink.

[PotshotPolka]

Liquid cooling is a misnomer, there's really only two types of cooling: Active and Passive.

 

All active cooling uses some method of getting your below room temperature. It also costs more than most parts and will tend to be unstable and require a lot of work to be safe (even those little self-contained thermal chips need you to waterproof a lot of stuff). Since you're not spending $4000 or more on your computer and doing world-championship benchmarking we won't worry about it, this stuff damages your shit getting it that cold anyway.

 

Passive cooling is anything that uses a heatsink to keep a part at the most down to room temperature. Heatsink towers and water cooling both use heatsinks (water cooling calls them radiators) and they both cannot break the laws of physics, no matter what you WILL be limited to your ambient temperature at the very lowest. SInce computer hardware tends to run at 30deg CELCIUS at its lowest that's perfectly fine, they like that temperature range.

 

Liquid cooling USED to be better because it could transfer more heat faster, now that heatpipe technology has been worked on for a while it's not worth it. A $70 heatsink that comes with two fans already on it (the noctuas for example) will perform just as good as a $250+ water cooling setup with a LOT less work and require virtually no maintenance beyond brushing the dust out periodically.

 

Generally the Noctua Uh-12P (think i got that name wrong) and the Thermalright Ultra 120 series are considered the top of the line for heatsinks.

 

 

Now. Fans. There's three kinds: Damn Near Silent, Quiet with good airflow, and Delta Screamers. We're talking about 120mm fans because nothing else is worth it, anything smaller is too loud and high pitched and bigger is... well its too big. Noctua fans are unhearable and move very little air, Yate Loons (they're neon orange if they're real) are kinda hard to find genuine ones but are widely considered the best for most people, and Delta makes high end "screamer" fans that move shittons of air but also are easily over 100 decibels and capable of truly physically harming you if you touch them while they're on.

 

If you want to get some yate loons. Otherwise generic 120mm fans like cooler master 4packs from SVC.com are usually good enough. Noctua's heatsinks come with their own fans specially tuned for the heatsink.

 

I use basic Antec 120mm (plus the 1 200mm) and I move air fine. GPU and CPU rarely go above 60 unless benchmark testing

[Shadowex3]

^^^ like I said generic 120mms work for most people and situations. if your noise restricted yates or noctuas, and if you enjoy the sound of a leafblower in your ear from a fan that can chew up a pencil delta screamers.