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silent cooling for a i5 system?

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chronic9

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I am building a mATX i5 650 rig. 4 gigs of ram, 1 SSD. onboard VGA.

I am wondering if I can create a 100% fanless PC?
its only going to be used for firefox and outlook and other random daily use activities.

http://www.svc.com/den-b.html

this comes to mind... but I am having issues if it can keep the CPU cool enough?

also considering the fanless antec PSUs there are out there.
 
rflcptr said:
For that application you may even underclock.
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this. underclocking will get great results with keeping your system pretty much fanless. I'd still throw in a low rpm fan on the case so that airflow isn't completely stagnant (a decent 120mm @ ~900 rpm should be nearly in-audible).

sorry I can't help much with heatsinks, I know a bit more about top performing actively cooled hsf, lol. you probably don't have the room for it, but I know the noctua nh-d14 is great for passive cooling and thermalright has the hr-02, they are very large though, lol.
 
ya the case is made for mATX only.... and sadly only has 80mm holes

i may just run it with the fans and see how audible it is.... i can always buy a fanless PSU later
 
My i5 750 can run wih a 120mm Noctua fan at 500rpm on a Megahalems, haven't tried completely passive. That cooler they're advertising doesn't look like it'd have the surface area to cool completely passively.
 
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ack, I see. silent 80mm that push decent air are a bit tougher to come by. a lot of the more decent ones make very little noise, the 80mm scythe low-rpm s-flex fans are pretty quiet. pretty much any decent brand using liquid bearings should make very little motor noise (most noise will come from the blades cutting into the air).
 
I would look into either the prolimatech samuel 17 or scythe shuriken, both are low profile and much better performance that what you linked
 
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