Recent content by Mazza

I am running a 3930k @ 5.0Ghz and suggest you look to replacing your motherboard first before anything else. Get yourself a decent Asus X79 board and I suspect that 3930k will go to at least 4.6Ghz-4.7Ghz with decent cooling. You could then update to 4930k, before going to Haswell-E as I'm...

It's surprising how many people have this misconception. I recently encoded something and put it on HDBits. It just so happened to be in the .mp4 container with x264 and 2.0 AAC. Somebody commented that I should "encode to mkv not mp4". I had to state the same thing as you to dispel the...

The stock fans that come with the h100i are not the ones in question here. They are SP120 L and are much louder and don't have the noise dampening extras that come with the SP120 quiet or the SP120 Performance. The consensus from other people that have had both is that the SP120 Quiet is...

I've heard from people that have had both that the Corsair is quieter which seems to be borne out by the review I linked with both fans tested.

You would presume that would be the case but in this instance extrapolating like that might not be correct. See here: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/coolers/display/120mm-fan-roundup-4_25.html#sect0

The SP120 that come on the H100i are called the SP120 L. They are not the same as the SP120 Quiet with max speed of ~1450rpm or the SP120 Performance with a max of ~2300rpm. So yes, you will find the Noctua F12's performing much better than the SP120 L stock fan but I'm looking for...

I'm looking to replace the stock fans on the Corsair H100i with either Corsair SP120 Quiet or Noctua NF F12. Silence is the main criteria. I've been searching to find out which is the quieter. Does anybody know or has seen any reviews as to which one of these is quieter at their full speed of...