i5 4690K which cpu cooler

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kiesan

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hello :)
so guys need help from you...
i have an Core i5 4690K on MSi Z97 Gaming 5 with Crucial Ballistix Elite (they have pretty high heatspreader) and i dont know which cooler can i buy for CPU. now i have intel box cooler
and temps are about 40°C in idle and 70-75°C in load (in prime from 80°C to 90°C)

+ CPU is at 4GHz-4.3GHz (stock voltage + turbo ON)

im looking for some Noctua coolers or also looking for Corsair H105 watercooler (which i will buy rather than Noctua tower coolers (because i have fear about space around socket and memory heatspreader high (they say 2.1inch high)

please help me decide for any cooler for this CPU i dont like this temps on it :)
 
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If you want a cheap water cooling solution the Cooler Master Seidon 120v is $49.99 on Newegg and keeps my overclocked Pentium G3258 (4.2ghz) nice and cool. It's a 120mm rad so you should have a few mounting options in your case. The cpu block looks pretty nice and won't interfere with your ram either. Honestly for the price it's a really great little cooler and it's really quiet too.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=seidon+120v&N=-1&isNodeId=1
 
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Any of the coolers mentioned will be better than the stock cooler. There are a ton of different coolers out there, the 212 evo is ok for budget cooling. One of the lower cost coolers (especially if you find it on sale) with decent performance. For anything over mild overclocking and at full retail price, there are better options than the 212 evo. The cryorig h5 is a little more (around $40-45) and does a better job and also won't interfere with ram since it uses a slim profile fan. The 212 evo barely fits with a fan in push, not because it's a wide cooler but because of the fan orientation. Often times it presses up against the ram in the first dimm slot.

If your case is wide enough and can take a 170mm tall cooler, the thermalright true spirit 140 power is a bit better than the noctua nh-d14 for around $50 vs $75 for the noctua. Bonus, it doesn't have the ugly farm and garden color scheme lol.

If you want the looks of a water cooler because of no heatsink in the way of the ram and you plan to overclock I think you'll be better off sticking with an h100i, h105 etc - a 240mm radiator if you're going the all in one route. The single 120's just don't cut it and barely can call themselves 'water cooling'. All the hype and none of the performance and most air coolers will outcool something like an h50 or h60. Some people suggest watercooling is somehow quieter but I don't see that aspect. If it's noise you're concerned about, consider any of the better single or dual tower air coolers use 2 fans. 120-240mm radiators use 1-2 fans and make better use of static pressure fans like the sp120's. 2 fans is 2 fans is 2 fans. You'll still need the same intake/exhaust case fans to keep the rest of the internals cool so no savings there either. The only time it might affect sound is if watercooling one or more gpu's since the radiator fans are quieter than a small gpu fan whirring at high rpm's.
 
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kiesan

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Case is no problem, because i have an Corsair 780T...
+ 2x 140mm Corsair fan in front // + 1x 140mm Corsair fan in back // up on case is empty space for Corsair h105 radiator i think
but i dont know if any of Noctua heatsinks is not too big for the ram heatsinks... so thats the problem
03-noctua-cooler-right.jpg

(crucial ballistix elite are over 45mm high... :/ )
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04-noctua-cooler-right-closeup.jpg
 
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You might be able to move the fan up a notch but I'm thinking the noctua dual tower coolers are like the dark rock pro 3 I just installed. Basically the same, dual tower cooler covers most of the width of the motherboard including the ram. Not friendly with high profile ram heatsinks. G.skill ripjaws fit fine but they're not super tall. I definitely don't dig the huge ram heatsinks, they're more of a pain than they're worth. Of all the things in my pc that get heated, ram was never an issue lol. It's sort of like mounting a massive heatsink to cool the sata port.
 
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I'm not sure which motherboard you have, but the cryorig r1 universal should be able to fit. It's a good performing dual tower heatsink with dual fans. The difference is they use a slim profile fan on the leading edge (like the h5 universal) that allows it to clear the first dimm of most 1150 motherboards. All except the maximus vi impact from asus I think.
 
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MSi z97 gaming 5 mb i have.
 
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