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Pre-filled liquid or stick with my air cooler?

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April 14, 2014 10:06:56 PM

I've got a Polaris 120 Heatsink in my rig cooling a Phenom II X4 975 BE. I'm looking to upgrade a few parts this summer, and was thinking about doing a CLC, but then realized the kits were hovering around 300 for something reliable (according to the water cooling sticky on our dear forum here), so I moved onto prefilled. I'm looking for thoughts an opinions as to what I should look at.

I keep seeing the h100 and the h110 appear, but I'm not sure what to do. I also had my eye on an H90, but I wasn't sure it it'd even out pace my air cooler.

The only reason I'm looking at all this is that I'm thinking of getting a gtx 760, which means I'll need to up my CPU clock so that it won't bottleneck, and that means more heat. I have three case fans (2 ex, 1 in) and the cpu fan as is already, so I'd rather not have to have more noise if I can help it.

Thanks guys

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April 14, 2014 10:14:34 PM

Cooler Master Seldon 120V. It's at a high RPM, and at only 9 dBa when others are higher. It's also cheap.
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April 14, 2014 10:24:27 PM

I have a 3570K overcolcked to 4.5 with a h100 CLC/AIO/whatever you wanna call it, and it keeps me around 50C at full bore. I know it's not the most impressive oc, but it's 20 degrees cooler than my hyper 212 w/push/pull, 3 high pressure, high CFM intake and three pretty standard exhaust fans. YMMV
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April 15, 2014 11:32:13 AM

I'm thinking I might go with the CM Seidon 240M now that I'm looking. Or I could go 120V or XL and buy a noctua nf-f12 to keep it quiet...So many options. Opinions?
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April 15, 2014 5:41:32 PM

My opinion, be happy with whatever you get, might as well throw a dart, cause performance wise all the top tier AIO/air coolers are about the same when it comes to temps, I wouldn't worry about it. No stress is best.
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April 16, 2014 7:35:28 AM

jossrik said:
My opinion, be happy with whatever you get, might as well throw a dart, cause performance wise all the top tier AIO/air coolers are about the same when it comes to temps, I wouldn't worry about it. No stress is best.


Yeah I guess. Just don't want to buy something and regret it.
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April 16, 2014 11:25:50 AM

The only way to do that is to get both and see which you like better. Because they're so close performance wise it's gonna come to aesthetics and which one you want more. Even though I have an AIO closed loop, I miss my air because if the pump fails there's no giant heatsink to handle idle temps, even though the water cooler gives me better temps overall. But again, I didn't have high end air cooling. The one I really want is the Phanteks.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
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April 16, 2014 11:35:44 AM

Hmm, might have to think about it. Would they take the return if I threw it in my system though? And I'm gonna hold on to my air cooler incase something like that happens. Just hot swap it and continue on until I get a new pump.
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April 16, 2014 11:50:25 AM

You would have to check the return policy. You might have to pay a restocking fee.
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April 17, 2014 8:19:04 PM

Best answer from Jossrik
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