Corsair H100 with 3930k & Rampage Formula

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mwdavis77

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I just finished my new build and I'm a little disappointed with the noise level of the H100. It does a great job at cooling, 30 degrees idle and ~55-60 with load, but the fans are a lot louder than I thought they would be. Maybe I made a wrong assumption but I thought that a water cooled system would be quieter than the air heatsink I had on my previous CPU. I've been reading and a lot of people have swapped out the fans for COUGAR CF-V12HPs but I'm also now concerned that maybe I should just go back to air cooled. In the process or researching the noise I've read a few horror stories of these Corsair cooling solutions leaking. I know that these are a small percentage of failures but it does scare me a bit. I have my 3930k overclocked to 4.5Ghz, fairly easily by the way, so I want to make sure anything I get can handling the OC.
 
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Yeah, I guess it was a bad assumption on my part. I still think I'm going to grab a couple of these Cougar fans to help with the noise.
 
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The Corsair fans are fine if you can fiddle with the voltages. They require a lot of juice to get their blades spinning but you can reduce the voltage quite a bit before the motor will be unable to keep them turning. I did that with my H100 until the pump started giving me the noises.

FWIW, I was going to pick up two Gentle Typhoons for my H100 if I didn't send it back. Plenty of RPM flavours to choose from, handle undervolting nicely, iirc they're FDB and reasonably high static pressure for their RPM and decibel output.
 
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Elcs said:
The Corsair fans are fine if you can fiddle with the voltages. They require a lot of juice to get their blades spinning but you can reduce the voltage quite a bit before the motor will be unable to keep them turning. I did that with my H100 until the pump started giving me the noises.

FWIW, I was going to pick up two Gentle Typhoons for my H100 if I didn't send it back. Plenty of RPM flavours to choose from, handle undervolting nicely, iirc they're FDB and reasonably high static pressure for their RPM and decibel output.
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What cooling did you end up with?
 
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