I believe there is some Doppler effect of noise transmission through air traveling in one direction. In the front would have this noise bouncing around between the NH-D14 fins. My duct is not only acoustically padded inside and out: it features an acoustic "cone" that sits in front of the intake fan hub.īut no matter - some very low-level motor noise is escaping front and rear - the rear also having a "bozo's nose" acoustic muffle on the case exterior covering the exhaust side fan hub. If no power-hungry video card is involved, here, your choice of cases is quite large.Ĭlick to expand.This is no different than the remaining muffled noise I experience with my "Acoustic mod" using a Gentle Typhoon AP-30 exhaust, ducted to the rear of my NH-D14. Then choose a PSU known for not being loud (or go semi-passive), and you'll have to watch the lights to make sure it's on. OTOH, if you don't game, many cases could just have their intake fans replaced, and be fine. If you don't game, it will be laughably easy, since you'll have a 100W PC. The Macho 120 is good, too, as is the NH-D12.Īs to cases, the Define R4 is going to be the easiest to make quiet. B is a solid cooler, as well (installation is kind of annoying, in comparison). While I would not get it over the Thermalright or Noctua, if readily available, Scythe's Ninja 3 rev. Silverstone has a similar cooler (I forget the model), but it's even bigger than those two, and looks like a PITA to install. The wide fin spacing is what makes them particularly good coolers for low noise. Both run well with slow fans, the Thermalright runs well with none (just using case air flow), and the Noctua can run with none. Thermalright's HR-02 "Macho" and Noctua's NH-D14 are among the best options for the CPU cooling side of things. Generally, ASRock and Asus have the best (in part just that they have good control features on almost all of their boards, while GB and MSI are kind of spotty). Get a board with good fan control, and choose for yourself.
Personally, I'd think if you can run the 4790K at stock (and turbo) speeds, you won't get much extra in performance if you can push it to 4.7 Ghz - or - the costs of time and trouble are huge compared to the gain.īut we measure these things in "Ghz and Mhz." If an i7-4770K clocked to 4.4 Ghz slightly exceeds the performance of my SB-K 4.7, then absolute speed by that measuring stick doesn't give the whole picture.Īs someone else said - and as the OP seems inclined - it's also useful to simply reduce operating temperatures (if not temperature-inducing voltage) for longevity.Ĭlick to expand.That's your call. Since the OP is rocking a 4790K yet not likely to overclock, those of us who can't help ourselves should meditate on our obsession and what it offers for the newer CPUs.
But delidding will still yield a considerable temperature decrease - especially with the option of a direct-die application of the sink - or waterblock. The temperatures are reasonable enough to leave the processor alone. If you plan to overclock the processor, you might have some limited luck with the 212 EVO, but folks who are keen on OC'ing as a serious pursuit would probably pick a bigger, more effective air-cooler, an AiO water-cooler, or even a custom parts selection for water-cooling.Ĭlick to expand.You can look at other threads - that seems to be part of a dilemma for obsessive hot-dawgs like me. There is "noise reduction," "fan reduction," and "less noise using less fans." So it is possible to remove the fan from the 212 cooler, build a foam-board duct to the case rear-exhaust fan, get the same performance from the cooler and (probably) reduce overall noise over what you get with the 212's stock fan - which should also reduce noise considerably over the fan of the stock cooler.
So if you want to spend a few extra ducats on another cooler, you might invest ~ $30 in something like a CoolerMaster Hyper 212 EVO. If you plan to run the i7-4790K at its stock settings, your base clock will be 4.0 Ghz and "turbo" will get you 4.4 Ghz - all using the stock cooler. 1) The stock cooler can be noisier, and it will depend on how you set any thermal fan control features in the BIOS while attempting to keep temperatures at the lowest while the processor is "fully loaded."Ģ) For the most part, per coolers that are popular or well-discussed in these forums, an aftermarket cooler can be - well - "cooler," and generate less noise.
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