- May 30, 2014
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Hello! I was thinking about buying a new medium-priced cooler, and I need some advice. While there are several similar threads, I didn't find any of them to really match my situation. To start off, I have a core i7 4770 (no OC planned, stock speeds only), and an Aerocool Xpredator X3 case.
So I used to have a really huge CPU air cooler, but it was such a pain in the a** to put on that during one maintenance I just didn't bother and put on a stock cooler. The noise from it is starting to drive me crazy, however. Originally I thought about buying some cheap water cooler, but I'm not sure if it will be worth it.
This is the one I was thinking about: https://www.alternate.nl/Antec/H600-Pro-Waterkoeling/html/product/1239285?lk=9351
It's really cheap and looks really nice. While 120mm might not be much, I don't think a 240 will fit in my case. My mobo has a pretty big heatsink next to the CPU and it slightly sticks out over the mounting points on top of the case. 5cm thick radiator+fans would likely get in the way of it.
So it's either one of these cheap water coolers, or an expensive air cooler. And while a lot of people seem to recommend air coolers, they are just so difficult to put on and don't look nice at all. I thought I might as well spend €10 more from the air cooler I was looking at and get this cheap water cooler.
So here is my question, keeping all of that in mind: are cheap water coolers really as bad as people make them out to be? I want it to be quiet and look nice, even with stock cooling my CPU runs about 70-75C while gaming, so performance isn't as much of an issue. I just don't feel like the air coolers are quite worth the money at that point, and cheaper ones won't perform optimally. €55 seems like a perfect point to get something nice, relatively quiet, and assumingly performing relatively well.
So I used to have a really huge CPU air cooler, but it was such a pain in the a** to put on that during one maintenance I just didn't bother and put on a stock cooler. The noise from it is starting to drive me crazy, however. Originally I thought about buying some cheap water cooler, but I'm not sure if it will be worth it.
This is the one I was thinking about: https://www.alternate.nl/Antec/H600-Pro-Waterkoeling/html/product/1239285?lk=9351
It's really cheap and looks really nice. While 120mm might not be much, I don't think a 240 will fit in my case. My mobo has a pretty big heatsink next to the CPU and it slightly sticks out over the mounting points on top of the case. 5cm thick radiator+fans would likely get in the way of it.
So it's either one of these cheap water coolers, or an expensive air cooler. And while a lot of people seem to recommend air coolers, they are just so difficult to put on and don't look nice at all. I thought I might as well spend €10 more from the air cooler I was looking at and get this cheap water cooler.
So here is my question, keeping all of that in mind: are cheap water coolers really as bad as people make them out to be? I want it to be quiet and look nice, even with stock cooling my CPU runs about 70-75C while gaming, so performance isn't as much of an issue. I just don't feel like the air coolers are quite worth the money at that point, and cheaper ones won't perform optimally. €55 seems like a perfect point to get something nice, relatively quiet, and assumingly performing relatively well.
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