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I currently own an h100i and I'm planning on upgrading to an ek h30 360 hfx kit. My question is would I get reasonable temperature differences (like 12-20 C) for the price or its not worth it? I'm using the core i7 4770k.
 
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The EK kit is a custom water cooling kit. This will give it extended life as you can easily refill it. ALso as rubix mentioned you can expand it. This means you could add more radiators and reservoirs as well as additional water blocks for your graphic cards and motherboard if supported.
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Doubtful, but maybe 3-7C is possible...even up to 10C. This is really a hard question to answer as temps rely on ambient air temps, overclocking and actual hardware used as well as fans and airflow over the radiator.

Looking at that kit, its a decent beginner kit and would allow for some expansion and customization over your H100i, but most of it depends on your actual plans.

What load temps are you currently seeing with the H100i? Overclocking?
 
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The EK kit is a custom water cooling kit. This will give it extended life as you can easily refill it. ALso as rubix mentioned you can expand it. This means you could add more radiators and reservoirs as well as additional water blocks for your graphic cards and motherboard if supported.
 
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Thanks for the answers! My system: asus maximus VI hero, corsair vengance 16gb, gainward gtx 770, kingston hyperx 3k 120gb, wd black 1tb, nzxt switch 810. Im using the stock fans with the case and the h100i. At a 4.5 ghz oc i get 40C idle, 70C when gaming but when rendering or stress testing it goes up to 87C. I cant get a stable overclock above 4.5 since temperatures goes up to 97C and i get a blue screen. I also dont want such high temperatures. My room is about 24-26C. I would also bee interested in better ek parts than that kit, where i live they only sell ek watercooling no other brand like xspc,alphacool,swiftech.
 
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EK is an excellent company and very well known for their water cooling. I looked at that kit and it seemed to have their higher quality (Not that anything they have is low quality). It is something I would certainly look at myself one day.
 
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If you can get past some of the woes that come with it then yes. My first one came with a defective pump. My second one somehow how got a lot of air flowing through it. Just had to top it off with some distilled water to fix it. But, those two things aside, its an absolute beast and ultra quiet at cooling.
 
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It would sound like your overclocking settings might be causing your high temps. That being said, most of the newer Ivy chips seem to put out a lot more heat when you push their clocks higher than their older Sandy counterparts due to not being directly soldered to the IHS and rather using thick thermal paste instead.

Can you post your BIOS settings used for the overclock? Or is this done using a BIOS 'overclock' setting...or worse yet...a GUI application?
 
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