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Hello.

I am building a gaming pc for my son. Its the first time Ive done this. I purchased a bundle consisting of the i7 4790k processor, Asus VII Ranger motherboard, and the Corsair Vengeance Pro RAM. I have now seen there are issues with the high heat spreaders on the RAM and the heat sink on some motherboards. What would be my best cooling option available. I have considered a 120mm liquid radiator, but don't know how effective this would be. Alternatively, are there ways to use good air cooling on this set up. Any help would be very much appreciated.
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Neil.
 
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BTW, here's the Cryorig compared with the H100i...... note the differences in both noise and thermal performance..... H100i is 8 times as loud and is 3C cooler....and that's a double 120mm cooler....twice the cooling capacity of the H80i.

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I use an H80i and it works great it keeps my OC'ed processor at 25 C. I would highly recommend that you use a closed loop water cooling unit. If you want to use a air cooler I would also recommend the Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO. Its cheap and it works really well. Hope this helps you out.
 
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While of some benefit in DDR2, the high heat spreaders on DDR3 serve no useful purpose and are there just for looks. If you are not going to overclock, then the stock intel cooler will be fine as long as you avoid synthetic benchmarks lie Prime 95.

The best cooling option available in a All-in-one would be the Swiftech H220-X, after that, the Cryorig R1 Universaol is designed to clear RAM sockets

http://www.swiftech.com/
http://www.cryorig.com/r1-universal.php

120mm CLC type liquid coolers fail to match the performance of moderately priced air coolers, considering the risk of failure, increased noise and lower thermal performance, I just can't recommend CLCs

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/281843-29-corsair-exploded
 
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