i5 6600k + CoolerMaster MasterCase cooling

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I need some help regaring my cooling. First, my PC is like this:
CASE: CoolerMaster MasterCase Pro 5
MBO: ASRock Z170 Gaming K6+
CPU: I5 6600K + CoolerMaster Hyper 212 EVO
RAM: 2 X 8GB (Kingston HyperX Savage, HX424C12SB2/8)
GPU: MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X
PSU: OCZ Fatal1ty 750W

I'm planning on changing my PSU (it's kinda old, it's fan started making some noise, and it's not fully modular), but for now I'd like to focus on my cooling first.
Note: I don't like water in my system.

I'd like to change all 4 case fans to something quiet and efficient. As far as I understand (correct me if wrong), for restricted places (like rads, intake fans with dust filters) it's better to use high static pressure fans than high airflow. Therefore I need some recommendation regarding 3 input fans and 1 output fan.
I was looking at something like:
- Phanteks PH-F140HP II
- bequiet! Silent Wings 3
- Corsair SP120 Quiet or ML140 PRO
- Scythe Kaze Maru2 / Glide Stream.

As for my CPU cooler, it must also be quiet - I know it depends on the fan, therefore it's not a problem to invest in a good cooler (heatsink) and replace it's fan with a more quiet / efficient one. These caught my eye:
- bequiet! Dark Rock 3 / Pro
- Cryorig H5 Ultimate / R1 Ultimate
- Phanteks PH-TC14PE
- Scythe Mugen MAX / Ashura Shadow
- Prolimatech Megahalems rev C / black or red

I'm still trying to understand all the cooling "philosophy", so, any help and recommendations, pros or cons, are welcome.
 
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1. On philosophy:
For cleaner case, you want a positive pressure setup.
That is where all intake air comes in from one source and is filtered.

All intake air that comes in will exit someplace taking generated heat with it.
Therefore for cooling concentrate on intake airflow.

For quiet:

Noise comes from fans rotating at high rpm.
www.silentpcreview.com is a good source for quiet info.

Larger fans move more air at lower rpm so they should be favored.

How much is enough?
14nm skylake runs cool, even with an overclock.
You will run out of safe vcore before you run out of thermal limits in a good case with decent cooling.

My suggestion is to relocate the two supplied 140mm fans as intakes and use a single 120 or 140mm fan for exhaust mainly to direct airflow.
Do not use a strong exhaust or you will draw in unfiltered air from nearby openings.

As to individual fans, yes, there are differences in efficiency and tonal quality.
But, by and large all will work similarly with similar rpm.
SPCR is a good resource on this.

Phanteks and noctua are the top 140mm fans:
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1345-page7.html

For the best cooling, I suggest the noctua NH-U14s. The s variant is important because it offsets the cooler to clear graphics cards backplates and does not interfere with tall ram heat spreaders..
FWIW:
I cool a well binned i5-6600K@4.8 using a noctua NH-U12s.
It is in a Silverstone TJ-08E case that has only a single 180mm intake fan. (on low speed)
The only exhaust is a 120mm yate loon fan.
I have no problem with heat, even with a GTX980ti inside.
 
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About Noctuas - don't get me wrong about this one, I know their performance is amongst the best, but, they are by definition too ugly - I mean, that combination of poop brown and vomit tan really "stands out". That's the sole reason I'm not thinking about Noctuas at all, desipte their performance.

About the positive pressure: that's why I like to use 3x140 (filtered) as intake and 1x140 (non filtered) as exhaust on my MasterCase Pro 5 - which accepts at max 140 fans. Would go for bigger if could.

I took a look on SPCR's first and second 140 roundup, and from that I guess that I should go with Phanteks as case fan, right?

Now the only thing left is CPU cooler. Any suggestions about that one? But no Noctuas please :D
 
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