Will I need any type of liquid cooling system/fan etc.. for this current system I'm building? (system info provided)

PedramCarter

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Is it needed it? will it reduce chances of overheating problems or the current fans are ok? need more?, I have heard R9 290X is having over heating problems and theyre releasing aftermarket, and quite frankly I don't want to wait, nor pay extra, would rather get free BF4 with this one.
Vantage Midi ATX PC Gaming Tower
(The cooling system is developed for cooling throughout
4 x Built-in 12cm Fans (3 x Blue LED) will keep your components cool
Water Cooling Ready *not included* )
Processor (CPU)
AMD FX-4350 Quad Core CPU (4.3/4.2GHZ - 4MB CACHE/AM3+)

Motherboard
ASUS® M5A97 LE R2.0 (DDR3, USB3.0, 6Gb/s)

Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (2 x 4GB)

Graphics Card
4GB AMD RADEON™ R9 290X - DVI, HDMI, DP - DX® 11, Eyefinity 4 Capable
(battlefield 4 edition, free bf4 included)

Memory - 1st Hard Disk
1TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 32MB CACHE

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM

Power Supply
XFX 650W PRO650W Core Edition.

Processor Cooling
STANDARD AMD CPU COOLER

Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs

USB Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 4 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
If yes which one? name model?, will it fit my case?
 
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I would not worry much about overheating.
Graphics cards do run hot, but they are built to tolerate heat.
Cpu chips do not run hot unless they are overclocked. And, again... they will tolerate high temperatures.
If temperatures ever get dangerously hot, the gpu or cpu will downclock itself to avoid damage.

R9 cards perform well for the price because they are in essence factory overclocked, resulting in a need for high fan speeds. The main drawback is higher noise levels. If noise is a big issue, the new nvidia GTX7xx series will tend to run cooler at an equivalent performance level.

I would go ahead and build with the supplied fans. It is not hard to change things out later if needed.

I do not much like all in one liquid...
I would not worry much about overheating.
Graphics cards do run hot, but they are built to tolerate heat.
Cpu chips do not run hot unless they are overclocked. And, again... they will tolerate high temperatures.
If temperatures ever get dangerously hot, the gpu or cpu will downclock itself to avoid damage.

R9 cards perform well for the price because they are in essence factory overclocked, resulting in a need for high fan speeds. The main drawback is higher noise levels. If noise is a big issue, the new nvidia GTX7xx series will tend to run cooler at an equivalent performance level.

I would go ahead and build with the supplied fans. It is not hard to change things out later if needed.

I do not much like all in one liquid coolers when a good air cooler can do the job.
A liquid cooler will be expensive, noisy, less reliable, and will not cool any better
in a well ventilated case.
Liquid cooling is really air cooling, it just puts the heat exchange in a different place.
The orientation of the radiator will cause a problem.
If you orient it to take in cool air from the outside, you will cool the cpu better, but the hot air then circulates inside the case heating up the graphics card and motherboard.
If you orient it to exhaust(which I think is better) , then your cpu cooling will be less effective because it uses pre heated case air.
And... I have read too many tales of woe when a liquid cooler leaks.
google "H100 leak"

I might change out the amd stock cooler for a $30 cooler like the cm hyper212. The main reason would be to reduce noise.
 
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PedramCarter

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Thanks for your detailed quick response, much appreciated.