- Jul 9, 2009
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So originally I was going to buy an $1100 from Cyberpower because I thought it would be nice to have someone else do "professional" cable management and they always have some "free" liquid cooling deal going on. Basically I've never been proud of how my custom PCs look when I put them together myself and was close to paying the premium to get one of those "YouTube ready" builds where everything looks flawless and aesthetic AF. This was before finding out they use cheap liquid cooling that'll leak after a year or so. Then I decided to learn how to install it myself but quickly saw that liquid cooling would cost more than the i3 6100 I've had my heart set on...and seemed pointless since I can't/wouldn't overclock the CPU anyway.
I've now convinced myself that air cooled computers can still look nice, but I'm having no luck finding an attractive CPU cooler for this i3. Newegg only shows like 10 of them for the 1151 socket, and I don't have the knowledge to know what will and will not work for this. (meaning, I'm not sure if you can safely use 1150 or other coolers for example)
The stock heatsink that comes with the i3 6100 is very ugly in my opinion and would ruin the whole look of the $200 case, black and red Motherboard, red RAM, and black and red GPU. What options are available for under $50 for this i3 6100 and do you guys personally care about stock CPU coolers being ugly?
I've now convinced myself that air cooled computers can still look nice, but I'm having no luck finding an attractive CPU cooler for this i3. Newegg only shows like 10 of them for the 1151 socket, and I don't have the knowledge to know what will and will not work for this. (meaning, I'm not sure if you can safely use 1150 or other coolers for example)
The stock heatsink that comes with the i3 6100 is very ugly in my opinion and would ruin the whole look of the $200 case, black and red Motherboard, red RAM, and black and red GPU. What options are available for under $50 for this i3 6100 and do you guys personally care about stock CPU coolers being ugly?
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