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What is Better for Overclocking?

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June 26, 2013 6:55:18 AM

As far as performance for the price what is better the corsair h100i or the cooler master hyper 212 evo I want to overclock from 4.2 to 4.7/4.8 maybe even 5, but I don't know As long as I can get it between 4.5 and 4.8 ghz I am happy. ,y processor is a intel 4670k and my MOBO is an MSI Z87-GD65. If you have any better suggestions for cooling my budget is from 0-100 dollars give or take about $3.
Thank you in advance

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June 26, 2013 7:01:24 AM

price for performance the coolermaster is the pinnacle at a mere $30.... although the h100i will be better... to be expected for the price of $103

On the otherhand, you need to test your chip a bit to see how far you can push it before increasing voltage, if you cant make 4.5 @ stock voltage, you'll have a bad time cooling it fullstop.
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June 26, 2013 7:04:01 AM

h110i is an overclocking beast , there is no comparison , the EVO is a budget cooler.
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June 26, 2013 7:04:04 AM

You need to read this review to see comparative values of CPU coolers:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/water2.0-extreme-kr...

You should also note that you may not be able to get a Haswell stably overclocked at those speeds (regardless of how good your cooler is).
Read about this here: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-i7-4770k-haswe...

What are you trying to do with this machine/why are you overclocking? You may be better off spending the $100 (really it's more like $220, since overclocking adds expense to your processor, motherboard, and forces you to purchase a CPU cooler) on a better processor or elsewhere in your machine to improve performance.
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June 26, 2013 7:07:49 AM

SR-71 Blackbird said:
h110i is an overclocking beast , there is no comparison , the EVO is a budget cooler.


they didnt list the 110i though :p 
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June 26, 2013 4:34:36 PM

drewhoo said:
You need to read this review to see comparative values of CPU coolers:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/water2.0-extreme-kr...

You should also note that you may not be able to get a Haswell stably overclocked at those speeds (regardless of how good your cooler is).
Read about this here: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-i7-4770k-haswe...

What are you trying to do with this machine/why are you overclocking? You may be better off spending the $100 (really it's more like $220, since overclocking adds expense to your processor, motherboard, and forces you to purchase a CPU cooler) on a better processor or elsewhere in your machine to improve performance.

I am using this for gaming. and what do you mean by $100/$220
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June 26, 2013 8:22:12 PM

Have you already purchased that mobo/CPU combo? If so, an OC probably won't help you as much as you think for gaming, certainly not worth a $100 cooler. For instance, I have an i5-2500k. I overclock it from 3.3 Ghz to 4.6 Ghz for photo/video editing. I have yet to notice any difference between the two clock settings when it comes to gaming. I do notice a difference for generating JPG previews, exporting jpg files, rendering video. But for video games, I'm stuck at medium/high settings on BF3 in the mid 50s for 2560x1440 regardless of my OC status. OC doesn't affect BF3 as far as I can subjectively notice, nor does it affect Skyrim, which is supposed to be sensitve to CPU performance.

If you haven't already bought those parts...
There's not a lot of evidence that shows that overclocks on processors drastically improves game performance.
In order to overclock, you have to 1) pay extra for an unlocked CPU 2) pay extra for a mobo chipset that supports overclocking (in this case the Z87) 3) Buy an aftermarket cooler.

That typically adds up to between $100 and $200 that you pay just so you can overclock your CPU by 1000Mhz. The in-game difference between a $250 GPU and a $350 GPU is much greater than the difference between an i5 at 3.4Ghz (insert generic Ghz value) and an i5 overclocked to 4.5 Ghz. Or even between an i5 and an i7.

So, my advice for a gaming build (it's different if you, say edit photos or make videos as a job) is to get the cheapest i5/quad core processor that you can find, get an H77/87 chipset motherboard for under $80, use the stock CPU cooler, and divert the rest of the budget to either your monitor(s), a larger SSD boot drive, better peripherals, or the GPU.
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June 27, 2013 9:54:11 AM

drewhoo said:
Have you already purchased that mobo/CPU combo? If so, an OC probably won't help you as much as you think for gaming, certainly not worth a $100 cooler. For instance, I have an i5-2500k. I overclock it from 3.3 Ghz to 4.6 Ghz for photo/video editing. I have yet to notice any difference between the two clock settings when it comes to gaming. I do notice a difference for generating JPG previews, exporting jpg files, rendering video. But for video games, I'm stuck at medium/high settings on BF3 in the mid 50s for 2560x1440 regardless of my OC status. OC doesn't affect BF3 as far as I can subjectively notice, nor does it affect Skyrim, which is supposed to be sensitve to CPU performance.

If you haven't already bought those parts...
There's not a lot of evidence that shows that overclocks on processors drastically improves game performance.
In order to overclock, you have to 1) pay extra for an unlocked CPU 2) pay extra for a mobo chipset that supports overclocking (in this case the Z87) 3) Buy an aftermarket cooler.

That typically adds up to between $100 and $200 that you pay just so you can overclock your CPU by 1000Mhz. The in-game difference between a $250 GPU and a $350 GPU is much greater than the difference between an i5 at 3.4Ghz (insert generic Ghz value) and an i5 overclocked to 4.5 Ghz. Or even between an i5 and an i7.

So, my advice for a gaming build (it's different if you, say edit photos or make videos as a job) is to get the cheapest i5/quad core processor that you can find, get an H77/87 chipset motherboard for under $80, use the stock CPU cooler, and divert the rest of the budget to either your monitor(s), a larger SSD boot drive, better peripherals, or the GPU.
In order for most important to least important I am using this for... gaming video editing/ making videos using smaller programs like word excel etc.. asnd I am using this for coding and business work.
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