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I right now have the Cooler Master Storm Scout 2 and am very pleased with the case, but not so much the fans. The fans are quite loud and seem to not blow any air at all... I have my back fan slot filled with an h80i in it and I have all of the other fan slots except the one on the bottom filled with the cooler-master sickle-flow fans. I really don't care about the price, and I am just looking for the best performance and long term. I am looking for high airflow so it blows air really hard and noise doesn't matter, as long as its not over about 40 decibels at a reasonable fan setting. I am planning on running these fans as fast as they can be and really just want to be able to keep my components cool enough to where gaming and such I wont hit 50 degrees Celsius.
 
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Noctua will give you the best airflow to noise ratio, but they are expensive and you said noise wasn't the most important factor. Also, thanks for spelling "quite" correctly. I get tired of the lazy teens on this site spelling it "quiet" or "quit."
 
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Yeah I have been looking at Noctua, Nilverstone AP fans and corsair SP120 fans, so I right now am going to order 4 Noctua fans, but what are the best type for airflow? I will also need to get around $30 more to get something like an H80i with some of the corsair SP120 fans for the radiator. One more question is that Right now I have in my case the Asus Sabertooth 990FX Gen3 R2 and the hyper 212 EVO with an AMD FX-8350. The hyper 212 was only temporary and I will be upgrading to water cooling, but my Vcore 1 (left of the cpu socket) is getting really hot and doesn't seem to get that much airflow, so should I get like an 80MM fan over it facing the windowed side of the case and make it blow air down/take air away from the Vcore? Or will the low profile of the CPU block on the H80i improve the airflow on the Vcore?
 
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This build is brand new and I literally just cleaned the dust filters yesterday, and I was looking into water cooling but looked all over the web and all of the water cooling stuff makes no sense to me.... I would really like to have one where I can cool the things like my CPU and the Vcores and bring it to a single-fan radiator that would go where my back fan is. If you could reccomend a good water cooling kit that would have NO chance of leaking and would be easy to maintain except for stuff like clearing the lines and putting in new solution.
 
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I'd not recommend a water cooler. Perhaps a NH-C14 from Noctua is called for. Note that the cooler gives you water cooler performance and the fan blows down on the motherboard, cooling the regulators around the CPU.
 
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I am going to trust you on this that it will work well and order this, but since it says you are a graphics card expert I might as well ask it now. What is the best graphics card that will run with my system and should I get the current 600/7000 series graphics cards or wait a while until the new AMD and Nvidia cards come out?
 
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Noctua provides an excellent paste that comes with their CPU coolers, don't bother buying another one.

Which graphics card? That is truly a religious debate. At present I favor Nividia because of their better drivers. Especially when in Crossfire or SLI, Nvidia is much better for most games. I would need more data on your system, but assuming the typical 1920X1080 display, a 670 would give you excellent performance. Seeing how graphics cards cost 300+ dollars. I'd recommend doing some research first. You can start with these:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107.html

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_670_SLI/1.html

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/Frame-Rating-AMD-Improves-CrossFire-Prototype-Driver

 
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Ok here we go, I have a Cooler Master Storm Scout 2 with all but the bottom fan filled with the cooler master sickle flow fans. My motherboard is an Asus Sabertooth 990FX Gen 3 R2 with an AMD FX 8350 at the Asus UEFI Bios turbo setting at 4.2 GHZ. My graphics card is the HIS HD7850 on the stock clocks with a hyper 212 EVO. My ram is Gskill sniper series 1866 MHZ Ram and I have 2 sticks of 4 GB. I have a Seasonic SS-750-AM PSU, Lite-on I-HAS 124-04 with an Adata xpg SX900 for my windows 7 boot drive. I also have a WD 500GB caviar blue drive for games and files.
 
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