Best Air cooling for I7 7700K in Corsair 780T PC Case

andrew0harney · Mar 11, 2017

No overclocking with this one. Need a solid air cooling + thermal compound recommendation.

Major system specs are:
Corsair 780T PC Case
I7 7700K
Z170 Pro Gaming Motherboard
GTX 1080 Zotac AMP Extreme

Thoughts?

Bakkie · Mar 11, 2017

As long as you're not overclocking you can go with any decent aircooling solution.
Like a Cooler Master Hyper 412s, or some similar one, in push pull.
212 would also be fine.

As for thermal compound, this is a neverending discussion... (http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/thermal-paste-performance-benchmark,review-32804-20.html)
I just use arctic silver or whatver it's called. It works.
Besides, if you're not overclocking you don't even have to worry about the possible plus or minus 2 degrees with different compounds.

theantidude · Mar 21, 2017

I have a very similar setup
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/c3cXWX

I would def go with the corsair H115

on thermal paste i would go with the noctua stuff, they are OBSESSIVE engineers.

oh wait, you said air cooling

the top of the line is the Noctua NH-D15, can't go wrong with it. but you would probably be fine with a not so huge one. I have a NH-U12S I installed and then decided against (I just wanted to go ridiculous) that I am getting rid of if you want it. I would sell if for $50

like I said, Noctua are OBSESSIVE about their craft. Top notch products only.

Guest · Mar 27, 2017

Two bottom fron intake
One top back exhaust
One top exhaust

And the ic7 diamond is mostly used by linustectips.

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