Tips for my cooling setup

Bogdan_77

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Hey guys I'm building a new gaming pc and I'm looking for suggestions or comments about it. I'm aiming for silence with this setup, and I'm running an i7-6700 and gtx 1070.

Cpu Cooler:CPU Cooler: NoFan CR-80EH (Once I need more intense cooling I'll upgrade to a noctua but this is rated for 80TDP and the cpu is rated at 65TDP so it should keep it cool while not producing any noise)(and I really like how this would look in the windowed case I've chosen)

Case: Corsair 400c (I love the way this case looks and it seems to me like it is setup very well for optimizing case airflow)

Case Fans: Front intake 3 120mm Enermax Twister Pressure (23-80 Cfm, 14-25 Db), Top exhaust 140mm Noctua N-A15 PWM(?-68 Cfm, 13.8-19.2 Db) 140 mm Corsair AF140L (?-67 Cfm, ?-?Db assuming 25), Rear Exhaust 120mm AF120L(?-65 Cfm, ?-? Db assuming 25) (So first of all I've done countless hours of research on silent case fans that deliver strong cooling power and this is what I ended up with. The two corsair fans come with the case and they will eventually be replaced by another noctua and enermax but I just wanted all the spaces full for now. I've found some Db calculators online and at full power for all the fans, which I sincerely doubt would happen, the max Db is 32.21. Now according to most of the what i could find about Db levels this is somewhere between background city noise and the rustling of leaves. That being the worst case scenario I assume the fans should be running at no more than 50% speed for basically anything I do so I think this is a pretty solid airflow setup to compliment my fanless cooler)
 
You'll find that once you have the fans in your hand, and installed...

they all sound the same man.

I believe that, 100% of fan stuff, is hype.

There are essentially two types, sleeve and ball bearing, both are pretty much silent in operation.
They all use brushless motors, pretty much silent in operation.
They all move air, impossible to silence.

Honestly the cheapest fan sounds just as good as a noctua when ran at a reasonable speed.
Try cheap fans at low settings, you don't need a wind tunnel, just consistent air flow.
 
One question, why bother with a fanless CPU cooler when you have so many case fans? The noise a CPU air cooler will make will be hardly anything and will cool the CPU without having to use lots of case fans to provide airflow to the passive CPU cooler.
 


alright then whats a good cheap fan?



Well I was hoping that the passive cooler would dissipate enough heat on its own to be able to keep all the fans running at minimum rpm and therefore keep everything silent