Is a water cooler really worth it?

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Fury Dharok

Fury Dharok

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I'm planning to buy Cooler Master Hyper 212X army (400 more RPM than 212evo)
Because i wanna OC to 4.5 GHz or probably less, but i heard watercoolers such as h100 and h80 are much better, is it really worth that price? And I heard about the Noctua dh14 but its massive AF and the color isn't good. So should i keep with the 212x army or get h100/h80?
 
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slicedtoad

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unless you're buying an h100/h80 for the aesthetics (along with decent performance) I'd recommend a phantek one instead. They perform nearly as good as Noctua but without the ugly brown and beige. Those closed loop water coolers aren't usually recommended since price to performance/noise they aren't as good as a decent air cooler. Also they don't last as long and can develop problems that don't exist with air coolers.

You may be able to get a 4.5GHz oc with the 212 though. It'll run a bit hot but depending on how well your cpu (i5-3570k?) OCs, it may work fine.
 
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Fury Dharok

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I'll take a look on the phanteks :p
 
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