Will Adding Another 120mm Rad Help at All?

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I currently have a 60mm 360 radiator. I am running both my gpu and cpu on it. Idle temps for my cpu, right now in the summer with ambients around 70-75, are nearing 40 degrees Celsius. I am wondering if I add another 120mm rad I have sitting around if it will help at all in my situation in lowering the idle temps?
 
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Personally the extra hardware cost and labor wouldnt be worth it for me.
As for the fans, Corsairs are not quite (Running two of the SP on my h100i)

Noctuas NF F12 moves slightly less feet per minute (54 vs 62 CFM) however they do it at much lower RMP and lower noise levels.
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If you have it laying around, it might affect temps somewhat.
However, if you really want to make an impact I would recommend at least another 240mm.

That being said, what are your specs/OC(?) that make you want to add cooling.
Depending on the processor, 40 idle is fine.
 
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Running i7-2600k with a 4.5 ghz OC, 1.335 vcore and a GTX 580. Looking to upgrade that soon anyway but yeah. I have both a 120 and 240 laying around but only have room to mount a 120 without doing serious case modding so eh...
 
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Load temps are initially about 48-54 across the 4 cores, but that is after just a few minutes. Reach low 60s when going for a while. I know that is well within comfortable range but it's acting a little funny with the heat recently. I enabled c3/c6 states for the overclock because it stays cooler at idle. Wondering if these are adding to a few BSOD errors I am getting with a voltage that worked previously? Anyway, I was mainly wondering if it would be worth it adding the 120 because I'd have to buy hard tubing fittings and more tubing. ALso, this doesnt really pertain to my origional question, but I am using SP120 quiet edition fans which really aren't so quiet. Do you think putting in Vardars or Noctuas would get me any real benefit?

 
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Personally the extra hardware cost and labor wouldnt be worth it for me.
As for the fans, Corsairs are not quite (Running two of the SP on my h100i)

Noctuas NF F12 moves slightly less feet per minute (54 vs 62 CFM) however they do it at much lower RMP and lower noise levels.
 
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I just realized I have fittings and tubing hidden away in my closet although I still don't see the need to add a rad until I upgrade to possibly a 970 soon because I'll add an EK block so I'll have to add new tubing anyway. Thanks for the help. I'm gonna consider F-12s or Vardar fans. I've heard the 1150 vardars perform amazing even running tthat slow

 
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