compl3x Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 I got the idea for this thread from here. I am just wondering what kind of cooling people employ for their systems and what their preferences are and why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luc2k Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 I'm stock air cooling on the CPU, set to minimum level, because I rely on 4 140mm case fans for the heavy lifting (2 permanently active on lower front/back and 2 on floor/roof that are turned on when needed - gaming and summer). I'll probably have too beef it up this year since the new 390's don't run below 65°C (can probably tweak that) and it's idling around 52-56. The reason I favour air is bang for buck. I've had 2 passively cooled GPU's a couple years back and it was a quick way to warm-up a room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiretap Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Custom water cooled for my gaming PC. Fan/heatsink cooled for my file server and HTPC's. Passive cooling for my pfSense firewall mini-ITX box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circaflex Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 (edited) water(gpu) + phase change(cpu) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Fahim S. MVC Posted February 13, 2016 MVC Share Posted February 13, 2016 Completely passively cooled i5 Haswell NUC here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim K Global Moderator Posted February 13, 2016 Global Moderator Share Posted February 13, 2016 Desktop has a Corsair AIO cooler. The other computers have fans/heatsinks. Two of them have the OEM cooler (AMD on my Freenas and Intel on my secondary HTPC). Primary HTPC has a Scythe low profile cooler that is really quiet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noir Angel Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 I use air cooling for my CPU, I have a Dark Rock BeQuiet aftermarket cooler. I run my i7-2700k at 4.8 GHZ at 1.4v and it runs about 65c under load. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsupersonic Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 Air cool - i5 4670 at stock speeds with an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro. Works well enough, and temps stay cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blank Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 I just use old fans and a coating of dust. seems to work good. water cooled always seemed like it'd be messy, so i've never even tried it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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