Liquid Cooling Impact on Noise

[brandonclone1]

I am interested in buying a Corsair liquid cooler in hopes of a quiet PC. That will leave me with an intake fan, exhaust fan, and GPU fans.

From your experience, did you liquid cooler help with noise greatly or minimally?

 

[natcha12]

Your PC will only be as quiet as the loudest part. Leaving fans in will probably make them the loudest, bar your GPU most likely

 

[10tacle]

If you do not overclock, yes, it's quiet if kept in "silent" mode and equal to the quietest high performance air coolers in noise like the Noctua NH-D15 under load (H100 and above series). You will definitely hear your GPU and case fans over it. My Noctua NH-D14 quiet performance means nothing with my five Antec Nine Hundred case fans and the four fans on my SLI 970 GPUs blowing under load.

 

[Eximo]

The stock Corsair fans are quite loud when they rev up. Really depends on which cooler as well. The larger it is the less need for the fans to rev up in the first place.

They don't cool any better then high end air coolers, and they are generally louder when doing it. You have to go over the $100 mark to get decent results.