Timeline for Silent cooler recommendation for the i3-7100?
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| Jul 10, 2017 at 17:09 | answer | added | jcam3 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 3, 2017 at 7:07 | comment | added | Bennett Yeo | You could try a combination of water cooling and passive fan setting to see if you can get the thermals of the core down so fan RPMs go down as well. Worst case scenario you're down a hundred bucks and have a computer that runs cooler. From a software standpoint you could also try fan speed software like speed fan. You'd need a mobo that supports it and 3 pin fan, however. | |
| Jul 2, 2017 at 21:06 | comment | added | Marty | It would be cool to do fanless, but that usually requires a very large heatsink, which won't fit my 56mm limitation. | |
| Jul 2, 2017 at 13:19 | comment | added | SEJPM | in theory I could imagine, if you down-clock your i3 a little bit, that passive cooling (ie no fans, just a big heat-sink, I found a passive cooler suited for 47W TDP CPUs and yours has 51W) might work, however this is way too experimental as for me to post it as a proper answer... | |
| Jul 1, 2017 at 21:55 | history | asked | Marty | CC BY-SA 3.0 |