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What air-cooled heatsink to buy

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  • Overclocking
  • Intel i5
  • Noctua
  • Cooling
  • Cooler Master
  • Performance
  • Heatsinks
  • Intel
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January 28, 2014 1:47:31 PM

Hello all,

I currently have a Hyper n520 that I'm getting okay performance with. I'm currently running my i5 3570k at 4.4GHz and getting max temps of 78C after about 5 minutes of prime95 on small fft's.

I was thinking about getting a TPC-812 due to the awesome reviews, plus the vapor chamber implementation seems to work pretty well. I can't get a liquid-cooled cooler due to the fact that my case (thor v2) will not properly allow for cooling without case mods, which I don't want to do. I like the TPC-812 because it wouldn't be as obnoxious as the Phantecks or the Noctua coolers, where they would block the RAM, meaning that I would have to remove the heatsink whenever installing/swapping RAM.

Will the Cooler Master TPC-812 give me a pretty big performance improvement over the Hyper n520? Or does anyone know of a better one? This just got one of the best reviews and benchmarks, so I figured I'd go with this one.

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January 28, 2014 2:06:25 PM

What case do you have?
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January 28, 2014 2:09:41 PM

SR-71 Blackbird said:
What case do you have?


Hey Blackbird,

I have a thor v2 with extra 140mm intake fan on bottom.

Thanks!
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January 28, 2014 2:15:09 PM

I have a Noctua D-14 and A Phanteks PH-TC14PE , TWO OF THE BEST AIR COOLERS ON THE MARKET.
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January 28, 2014 2:21:07 PM

SR-71 Blackbird said:
I have a Noctua D-14 and A Phanteks PH-TC14PE , TWO OF THE BEST AIR COOLERS ON THE MARKET.


I was thinking about getting one of those two, but I think those are just too large, and with both of those I would not have access to my RAM. The temps of the TPC-812 are pretty much right on par with the others too: http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=265.... Would any of those give me much of a performance increase over the hyper N520 though?
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January 28, 2014 2:22:31 PM

Stick with it then , it's a solid cooler.
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January 28, 2014 2:23:35 PM
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