I'm looking at a new build. I have another question posted about the build in general but I want to know more about the cooler. I've been researching for hours. From what I can tell, the H90 and the X40 are pretty close in performance.
I'm looking at getting a Haswell 4770k and am planning on overclocking it. I've never overclocked before and would like to play around with it. I do a fair amount of video encoding and Photoshop work. Although, I'm not a really heavy photoshop user.
From what I have seen online is that the air coolers are pretty good. 240mm air coolers better than 140mm but I'm working within a budget, and since I don't spend all my time video encoding or photoshop I thought that it might be okay.
Currently newegg has the Corsair H90 on special for $69.99. I think that is a pretty good price and while some have recommended the Thermaltake Macho Rev. A (HR-02), it seems that for $10 more I can go with the H90 and have a lot more space in the case.
I run virtualbox with a Windows 7 guest all day with my host machine as Linux mint 15. I Photoshop / inside Virtualbox and the video encoding in the host.
Do you think this will be sufficient?
I'm looking at getting a Haswell 4770k and am planning on overclocking it. I've never overclocked before and would like to play around with it. I do a fair amount of video encoding and Photoshop work. Although, I'm not a really heavy photoshop user.
From what I have seen online is that the air coolers are pretty good. 240mm air coolers better than 140mm but I'm working within a budget, and since I don't spend all my time video encoding or photoshop I thought that it might be okay.
Currently newegg has the Corsair H90 on special for $69.99. I think that is a pretty good price and while some have recommended the Thermaltake Macho Rev. A (HR-02), it seems that for $10 more I can go with the H90 and have a lot more space in the case.
I run virtualbox with a Windows 7 guest all day with my host machine as Linux mint 15. I Photoshop / inside Virtualbox and the video encoding in the host.
Do you think this will be sufficient?
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