High-performance AIO liquid cooler following GPU installation.
High-performance AIO liquid cooler following GPU installation.
Recently upgraded from a 4070 to 5070 Ti and now my AIO Liquid CPU Cooler fans are extremely loud, almost at maximum speed. The AIO looks quiet! Using BW020 Light Loop 240 ARGB. Temperatures appear normal: GPU 70 on load idle, around 35 CPU 72 on load idle, which is 45-50. I think it might relate to the fan curve on the motherboard. I have the Asus PRIME B850-PLUS WIFI AM5 ATX Mainboard.
It might be that the CPU is running a bit more intensely now because of the faster GPU, which raises the temperature and then increases fan speed. You can manually tweak the fan curve in the BIOS or with a fan controller software. A 72c load isn’t much for any CPU, so you can safely lower the fan speed to something quieter. I’m planning to sleep since it’s 2:30 AM here in Norway. If you need assistance adjusting the fan curve, I’ll send you a DM tomorrow and we can fine-tune it together.
Stay informed, I don’t have an AIO—I rely on an air cooler. I typically run the fans at their maximum without making noise or disturbing others, just letting it sit for regular use. It performs perfectly with any fan or cooler configuration I’ve tried. For higher temperatures around 85°C, I can boost the fan speed a bit.
I needed to tweak it to match my preferences. It turned out the new 5070 Ti fans were causing the noise, not the AIO fan. I downloaded the fan control software to adjust settings—anyone using that or similar GPU curves would find your configuration interesting. This is how things are set up right now: idle at 27, and during a demanding RTX game it climbs to 72°C.
Closing discussion, I found the cards with dual bios should be changed to silent/quiet bios rather than adjusting them through the switch on the card. This results in the fan RPMs running much slower than the jet speeds. The card actually stays cooler since it doesn’t waste extra power on fans. Performance remains unchanged.