need help picking out a CPU cooler

Nathan Gaudet

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I'm having a little trouble finding an appropriately functional CPU cooler with the current build that i have (see here) . I believe i need a smallish one that would work without completely obliterating my wallet. I'd also like to avoid liquid cooling if at all possible. I live in the deep south, so a good one will be necessary, so I don't melt my build.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
 

michaelhall

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I also have the z11 plus case along with the 212 EVO and it fits perfect , if the window wasn't there it wouldn't , you don't really need push pull so just put the fan on the left side so you dont need to worry about ram clearances , I use the fx6300 oc'd to 4.4 and everything's nice and cool and this coolers only 20 quid
 
The EVO has a crap mounting system. The H7 is five bucks more and outperforms the EVO plus doesn't have the questionable mounting design. But if for some reason you like the EVO better, which I really can't understand having written a tutorial on that system and having much experience with it, the EVO has ok performance as long as you don't get silly with the level of your overclock because it get's pretty loud at the high end.

For a stock configuration it's a much better unit than the stock cooler, but I'd definitely go with the Cryorig unit.
 

michaelhall

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OK didn't post to get into a debate ... just voicing my opinion , the hyper 212 is the best price to performance and probably the most used and trusted cooler out there , if retards can't figure out how to mount it that's their problem