Out of these choices, which is the best cooler for the i7 4790k with this build?

takemeunder

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This will be the build:
1. CPU: i7-4790K 4.0 GHz 8MB Intel Smart Cache LGA1150
2. MEMORY: 16GB (8GBx2) DDR3/2133MHz Dual Channel Memory (ADATA XPG V3)
3. MOTHERBOARD: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition ATX w/ GIGABit LAN, 2 PCIe x16, 3 PCIe x1, 1x M.2, 6x SATA 6GB/s
4. POWERSUPPLY: 850 Watts - EVGA SuperNOVA 850 GS 80 Plus Gold Power Supply
5. VIDEO: EVGA Superclocked ACX 2.0 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 (Maxwell)

These are the choices for cooling:

Intel Certified CPU Cooler
DeepCool GAMMAXX 400 CPU Air Cooler
EVGA enthusiast ACX CPU Cooler, Direct Touch 4 Heat Pipe
Cooler Master GeminII S524 CPU Cooler
CM V8 CPU Air Cooler
Asetek 510LC Liquid Cooling CPU Cooler
Deepcool Captain 120 120MM CPU Liquid Cooler
Corsair Hydro Series H60 120mm Liquid CPU Cooling System w/ Copper Cold Plate
Asetek 550LC Liquid Cooling CPU Cooler 120mm
Asetek 570LXL Liquid Cooling CPU Cooler 240mm
Corsair Hydro H100i GTX 240mm CPU Cooling Kit
RayStorm 420 EX240 WaterCooling Kit
Corsair Hydro Series H110i GT 280mm Liquid Cooling CPU Cooler

I have no access to any other coolers, only these will work for me.
 
1. cm v8
2. deepcool.

evga will have a noisy and ineffective 92mm fan.
Stock intel cooler is noisy and not effective under load
cm Gemini is downdraft type which is not as effective as a tower.

But, i7-4790K runs at 4.0/4.4 stock.
Do you really need more??

I would avoid liquid coolers.
I have become a bit jaded on the subject of haswell cooling for overclocking.
How high you can OC is firstly determined by your luck in the bin lottery.
I had high expectations from the Devil's canyon parts and their better thermals.
I found out that the thermals really do not matter unless, perhaps, you are a competitive overclocker.
Haswell runs quite cool, that is, until you raise the voltage past 1.25v or so.
Once you go past 1.3v, then you really do need very good cooling to keep stress loads under say 85c.
But, the consensus is that voltages higher than 1.30 are not a good thing for 24/7 usage.
I have been unable to find any official Intel recommendation on what is a safe vcore limit.

Even if you can handle the heat, how much do you really need that extra multiplier from say 4.4 to 4.6?

My canned rant on liquid cooling:
------------------------start of rant-------------------
You buy a liquid cooler to be able to extract an extra multiplier or two out of your OC.
How much do you really need?
I do not much like all in one liquid coolers when a good air cooler like a Noctua or phanteks can do the job just as well.
A liquid cooler will be expensive, noisy, less reliable, and will not cool any better
in a well ventilated case.
Liquid cooling is really air cooling, it just puts the heat exchange in a different place.
The orientation of the radiator will cause a problem.
If you orient it to take in cool air from the outside, you will cool the cpu better, but the hot air then circulates inside the case heating up the graphics card and motherboard.
If you orient it to exhaust(which I think is better) , then your cpu cooling will be less effective because it uses pre heated case air.
And... I have read too many tales of woe when a liquid cooler leaks.
google "H100 leak"
-----------------------end of rant--------------------------

Your pc will be quieter, more reliable, and will be cooled equally well with a decent air cooler.
 

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Would the DeepCool GAMMAXX 400 CPU Air Cooler be fine for this system? Aside from the gpu, nothing is being overclocked, and I won't overclock the cpu. But I do a lot of gaming.

The Corsair H100i would really be stretching my budget so would the V8
 

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i would avoid ALL large air coolers in a tower case. the weight of all that cooler just hanging there isn't terribly good. go water if you have a tower, or go big air if you have a "test-bench" case like a CoolerMaster HAF XB that keeps the mobo flat (horizontal)