I purchased this cpu cooler for my i9 7900x cpu. Initially I had a h100i v2 from Corsair and it was terrible. Not only were their fans loud, at max load I had cores hitting temps of up to 90C. Also the h100i v2 tubing was ridiculously stiff and hard to work with. With this ...
we had a suspicion that things may in fact get loud when let lose at their maximum levels. The 59 dB rating here proves our suspicion, but keep in mind: we forced this result as a worst case scenario. With software control, it is likely you will never get to this level...