I'm into water for the peace and quiet it brings...until I first put my cpu on water I never realized how loud my gpu's were! Took 2 years to finally decide to put them under water also...I'm slow!
I think a lot of it also depends on the air cooler that you use on your GPU. I don't think I can ever go back to the standard blower coolers as they're just simply too loud. I use a Gigabyte Windforce right now, and it works pretty well.
Honestly, I think what was making my system seem really noisy was probably the fans on the top. I had a radiator up there when I was water cooling and I used to have fans up there while I was air cooling, and it never seemed as quiet as I wanted it. I reworked my build, which included moving my 140mm fans down to the bottom to help pull in air for the GPU (I wish I had some sort of device to redirect the air better
), and now it's a lot quieter.
how to swap water gpu in under 5 min. (on my old setup)
1. Get Quick Disconnects..
Yeah, I considered putting quick disconnects at the places where I've had to pull components often (CPU and GPU), but the problem is... quick disconnects are (relatively)
huge. I most likely would've had some trouble fitting a quick disconnect below my GPU, and I know it would've been futile if I tried it
when I was running SLI. Also, it never would've worked with
between my CPU and radiator.
I also mentioned this in another thread, but quick disconnects are rather pricey!
It costs about $24 per set!