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Aurora ALX R1 liquid cooling stock fan replacement alternatives
Hello , I own an aurora ALX R1 and it is still going strong after over 5 years. I have just now started messing around with higher overclocking(3.8 ghz) and I was wondering if changing the stock fan on the liquid cooling unit would help at all with temperature and perhaps noise reduction.To be clear , everything still works fine and my temperatures are decent (54 idle , 75 under load) but my pc does sound like a jet engine when gaming and I am uncomfortable pushing the cpu anymore as I do not want to raise the temperatures any more.I know I could get a better cooling solution but I am mostly looking for a quick and cheap upgrade so I can have just a little more fun with my R1 before I hand it over to my son and build myself another pc in maybe a year or so. Any suggestions? Thank in advance!
By the way I was thinking of a noctua nf-f12 ippc-2000 pwm at the moment...
AAA737flyer
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May 5th, 2015 05:00
ReverandButcher
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May 5th, 2015 06:00
yes I have the i920. So youre saying the stock fan is good enough , no upgrade at all to change the fan? Maybe if I switched the fan around for push instead of pull , or arranged for 2 fans for push , pull? I would really rather not change the cooler but I will look into changing the thermal paste like you said. I do try to keep my pc as dust free as possible , I use a small compressor to blow dust out around once a month. Do the temps I mentioned seem reasonable to you? Thanks!
AAA737flyer
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May 7th, 2015 06:00