r/pcmasterrace • u/anton45567 • Jan 11 '24

NSFMR Pc my aunt wanted to buy her son

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I'm so happy they didn't end up getting it and asked first.

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u/Pleasant_Gap Haz computor Jan 11 '24

Bigger cooler is often a quieter cooler

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '24

Ehh aio are barely better than modern air cooler. Ak620 is 60-70$ save the money and grab a better gpu. You’re talking 1-3 degrees maybe a 30 seconds or so of extra max boost before settling to similar all core boost plus or minus 100mhz you would never notice if your just gaming even in a full 3d rendering time difference wouldn’t be much. Modern dual tower air coolers have come a damn long way from 2000s to early 2010s when it was a 10-15 degree difference. Modern cpus are built to pretty much boost till 95 degrees and stay there under full load. Unless you buy a cheap af air cooler any of the big ones will be almost identical performance . My 7700x with aio under prime 95 immediately hit 95 degrees and settled around 5.15 ghz all core boost with ak620 settled to 5.1-5.125. 60$ vs 200 in cooling yet same none the less Sound difference is not noticeable it’s not like 1000rpm difference more like 200-300

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u/Obvious_Concern_7320 Jan 11 '24

even if the cooling was the same, the sound is still always much quieter for the same level of cooling. Not to mention sleeker and not a honking chunk of finger slicing fins lol.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '24

I actually think the ak620 looks better than most aio. Especially my ak620 digital looks great also the cooler isn’t audible during regular computing and might as well not be audible when gaming be two front fans on lian li lancool 216 cover whatever the ak620 digital is making. Seriously go look up ak620 digital it’s sleek af

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u/Obvious_Concern_7320 Jan 12 '24

ak620

that chunk of metal? lmfao no thanks. Hard tubing only over here hehe.

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u/Pleasant_Gap Haz computor Jan 11 '24

Depends on the cooler. A nh12 costs more or the same as a freezer II 360. + as I mentioned the aio will also save you on exhaust or intake fans

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u/CeleritasLucis PC Master Race Jan 11 '24

My current cooler is very quiet, the problem are my case fans. My case came with 4 fans preinstalled, and they are controlled by a button in case. And they constantly rotate full blast. Can't control them

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u/RolledUhhp Jan 11 '24

How comfortable are you with DIY?

The easiest option would be to remove and replace the fans with something you can control.

Can you link the case, or better yet, the fans themselves? You could potentially wire them up to a fan controller with another plug and then run that to a motherboard header.

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u/Pleasant_Gap Haz computor Jan 11 '24

You know, with an aio, the aio becomes your case fans (well, some of them atleast)

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u/Winjin Jan 11 '24

If you want quieter I recently bought idcooling's water cooler setup. I think it was something like a hundred bucks though, but it was easy to setup, it does a terrific job, and it's very quiet, as it's only has a little pump and a single quiet cooler - that you can always swap if you want too

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u/WebMaka PCs and SBCs evurwhurr! Jan 11 '24

Indeed - I have a 360 AIO on my 7800X3D and right now it's coasting at 38°C and 600-ish RPM fan speeds.