i7 7700k ITX Coolers (Cooler Master 130)

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Hi All,

I'm planning to build an ITX gaming rig. Can anyone please recommend a good low-profile cooler that will fit in the Cooler Master 130 case and keep an i7 7700k cool?

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Personally, no, but I have a 212 EVO in a box under my bed and it was plenty enough for very heavy overclocking on my i5, and the H7 is better as per all reviews I've read. It's generally regarded as one of, if not the best value cooler.
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Cryorig is 145mm in height, but the AIO could work. I guess I'd have to replace the front 120mm fan with the radiator?
 
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The CRYORIG C7 looks like it would work. What water cooler setup would you recommend and fit in that case? Thanks! :)
 
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Easiest thing to do is do a quick check over at PCpartpicker > completed builds. https://pcpartpicker.com/builds/#c=184,275,378&e=125

You can find people who are using the same case and similar CPU as you to see what they did. Looks like you can actually use the Noctua NH-LPx65, which would be best if you wanted go for just an air cooler, though still worse than an AIO. Anyways really any of the 120mm AIO will do the job. I'm seeing multiple people using a Corsair H80i many claiming to get an OC potential out of too.
 
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My opinion, avoid the CM 130. Avoid any ITX case that puts the power supply over the CPU, so you can use a full height cooler. I've worked with them and hate them. My current case relocated the power supply to the front of the PC, allowing a full tower cooler in what ends up actually being a smaller total case size.
 
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What ITX case would you recommend? I need something that will accept a card around 12" and that will allow for an external disc drive? Thanks!
 
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sorry, I meant the C7, not the H7. I built a mITX system about 6 months ago with a 6600K, H60, and a MSI Gaming X 1070 in a Corsair 250D. I was pretty satisfied with that and temps were a little high to begin with, but I added two 80mm Artic F8 PWM fans to the back to solve that problem.
 
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Disk drive is a bit of an unusual request, I don't think I've put one in a PC in close to 10 years and they're getting somewhat rare in computer cases. When I need one in a pinch (which is never), I just have a tiny USB disk drive I plug in. However, a glance at Newegg revealed a case that, for your uses, I would consider to have a nearly perfect layout: The Fractal Core 500

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811352060

The power supply is in the front underneath the 5.25" bay, and offset so it doesn't interfere with a full length video card. The area above the motherboard is completely open. With everything installed, that's almost zero wasted space, while leaving everything fully accessible. In contrast, with something like the CM 130, you have to remove the power supply to unplug a SATA cable or swap a stick of RAM.

Plus, the price is right too.
 
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Thanks for the info! Say, if I were to drop the disc drive, what would you recommend instead?

 
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Something like the Fractal Node 202 or Silverstone Raven/Sugo are interesting. They require low profile coolers still but have no power supply above them, making cooling much more effective. They turn the video card sideways to make the system incredibly compact, at something like 1/3 the size of the Node 500 or other ITX cases. They also require SFX (rather than ATX) power supplies because they're so thin, but there are a lot of solid SFX PSUs to choose from.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811352058

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811163289

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811163286


The Fractal Nano 5 is more of a traditional tower layout with upright motherboard and power supply at the rear, only smaller:

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811352061


The Node 304 is similar to the Node 500 I picked out above, but is a bit smaller due to the lack of a 5.25" drive bay. It places the power supply in the front of the case and has the motherboard laying flat on the bottom:

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811352027


The case I use is more like the Lian-Li PC-Q10WX, which turns the motherboard upright like a tower, but places the power supply in the front to better utilize space than in a traditional tower shape (like the Nano 5).

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA0FU55J8902
 
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My opinion, an i7 7700 is faster than any overclocked 7600K in 99% of cases, and is only a 65w CPU. You could easily use it with a low profile cooler. The 7600K, once overclocked, gets very power hungry very fast. I'd rather have a stock i7 than an OC'd i5, and you can also get away with a non-Z motherboard (saves money) and even use the stock cooler if it suits you (saves more money). In this case I'd use the Node 202 or one of the Silverstone cases for a really incredibly compact machine.
 
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Noctua NH-D14 or 15 if you want to spend money and be as big and quiet as possible. Otherwise looks all the usual suspects for 120mm CPU heatsinks will if just barely. Again this case is really meant to be using an AIO, a 240 in this case or a 120mm since you want to use the front bay for a disc drive.

https://pcpartpicker.com/builds/by_part/LvnG3C#c=184,275
 
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Are you sure?
http://gizmodo.com/dont-waste-money-on-intels-top-processor-1791426602

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-7700-vs-Intel-Core-i5-7600K/3887vs3885
 
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It depends on the game. Anything using the latest Frostbite engine (which is relatively new but you'll see a ton of in years to come) scales well with the i7's extra threads. You see the old i7 2600K matching or beating an i5 6600 or even 7600 in titles like Battlefield, Mirror's Edge, Need for Speed, Mass Effect, etc., and within the same generation the i7's are holding a ~25% performance advantage over an i5 at the same clocks, which is a lot more than you're going to get from any OC. Couple that with the fact that a stock i7 will draw half the power of a heavily OC'd i5 and can be used with a cheaper motherboard and it's pretty damning for the 7600K.

I won't drop a ton of benches here but you're welcome to look them up. Here's just one:

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Truly multithreaded gaming is only just arriving, but it's here, and you're going to see chips with more than 4 threads having a reason to exist in a gaming PC from here on out.
 
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I don't mind being proven wrong. I just want to spend my money wisely. With the i7 7700k and the Fractal 500 case what air cooler would you recommend?
 
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You could get away with an $18 Cryorig M9i. A $40 Cryrig H7 would be pretty quiet and even give some overclocking headroom. A high-end Noctua heatsink like the D14 or D15 might be good for 5ghz, which is... really only 10%, and a lot to pay for what is probably only 2-4% more than you'd get from a $20-40 heatsink.
 
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I don't mind spending $50-60 on a CPU cooler. Will those fit on an ITX board?

ASUS ROG Strix Z270I Gaming Motherboards ROG Strix Z270I https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MZBUDUU/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_qOGVyb1JZKPDC
 
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They should fit, ITX boards have the same mounting holes and usually similar spacing around the socket, it's just fewer expansion slots. Just double check that there's enough height clearance in whatever case you pick; it should be listed on the manufacturer's website.

If you pick something really huge like the Noctua D14 or D15, you might opt to go for the "S" versions instead (e.g. D15S). These have one fan instead of two. They perform almost identically, but take up a lot less space and are easier to work around in a cramped case.
 
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