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nitesh45

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As this is my first build kind of worried about the compatibility of the whole system. So here are the future specs:

Corsair Carbide 500R
Intel Core 4670K (Will overclock)
MSI Z87-G45-GAMING
XIGMATEK Dark Knight Nighthawk OR Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
(Hinting towards Dark knight because of white leds)
Corsair TX650M
Corsair Vengeance 8GB 1600Mhz
500GB
GTX 650ti (Left over from old build, will get 770 soon)
Mostly concerned about the CPU Cooler if they will fit or not. If there are any other recommendations for the parts around the same price, do share. Thank you.
 
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The Arctic Cooling Freezer isn't the best for what you can get for that price and is very comparable to the 212 hyper evo. The dark night is the best cooler out of all of them, with the evo being 2nd.
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Im sure the CM Hyper Evo is compatible with the LGA 1150 socket, but make sure that the vengeance ram can clear it, some of the vengeance ram have tall heat spreaders that can get in the way of big heatsinks.
 
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i know for a fact the Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO is a pretty tall CPU cooler, 16CM i think, so your case needs to be atleast 20cm wide (wider if it has routing holes and watercooling bits!)

i use an arctic cooler freezer pro 7 on my build, keeps my OC temps below 55C under load, and its pretty short, and cheap!
 
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The dark night is practically an upgraded hyper evo, you'll probably get a few more MHz with it on overclocking. Compatibility is the same, it will fit the LGA 1150 socket, but make sure your RAM will clear it, as I said before, some models of the vengeance RAM have big heat spreaders.

 
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nitesh45

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Yeah I'm sticking to Corsair Vengeance LP now, and finally one last question. What about the Arctic Cooling Freezer i30 would it fit and would it be better. (Compatibility should be fine LGA 1155and 56 mount the same as 1150)
 
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The Arctic Cooling Freezer isn't the best for what you can get for that price and is very comparable to the 212 hyper evo. The dark night is the best cooler out of all of them, with the evo being 2nd.
 
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