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Understood, often shipping and taxes warp the prices of a good product.

Getting an air cooler, you can invest the savings onto an i7-6700K/i7-7700K. If you must go for the NZXT X62, mount it at the top on the radiator rails.
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Or if you can change the case, get the NZXT S340 Elite and make it a case+cooler affair ;)
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The cost to performance ratio when viewed against an air cooler to an AIO/closed loop cooler shows that an air cooler is the best option to go.

1| You can pull off your overclocking needs with a Cryorig H7/H7 Quad Lumi cooler
2| Pertaining to your build, try and get an SSD and if possible, perhaps slice the form factor down to matx/mitx.
3| What is your current PSU's make and model?
4| The cost of the GPU isn't listed. Are you sure you chose the right part?
5| Where are you located?
 
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My PSU is a RM550x Corsair.
The GPU is correct as I can get it on a online store it costs about 500$
I live in Switzerland right now is summer. Swiss currency is the same as USD but here they overprice.

 
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Understood, often shipping and taxes warp the prices of a good product.

Getting an air cooler, you can invest the savings onto an i7-6700K/i7-7700K. If you must go for the NZXT X62, mount it at the top on the radiator rails.
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Or if you can change the case, get the NZXT S340 Elite and make it a case+cooler affair ;)
 
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buying an 6700 k is wiser move to you and most of watercooling soltions are good , not really huge diffrence , buy the one that fits on your budget so you can go with 6700k.

best way to install a watercooler is top of the case...if you install it in front of your case the lifespan of the pump gonna be lesser than on top and if you want long life span with your cooling solution go with air coolers...there is always leakage possibility in liquid coolers.
 
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Orientation makes no difference to the pump lifespan at all, makes no difference to the pump if the fans are mounted pull intake for a front load radiator or push exhaust for a top load radiator. The only difference orientation makes is in moving the case as the pump will be closer to level with the reservoir, so possibility of noise from air in the pump is greater if the back of the case is raised beyond level, putting the pump at highest point in the loop.

AIO leakage is extremely rare, far more common is aircoolers with misshapen bases, leading to cpu hotspots on certain cores, direct contact heatpipes being in bad location vrs the ic etc.

Both cooling solutions have bonuses and drawbacks, it's a matter of deciding which suits your wants/needs/aesthetics tastes better.
 
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The argument I make with having a radiator mounted internally at the front set to an intake causes the heat you've stolen from the heatsource and recycled it back into the case in turn raising the temperature by a few degrees over a long span of time.

The reason I suggest mounting the radiator up top is due to warmer air naturally moving to the top via convection thus aiding in the heat dissipation.

The orientation of the radiator, for an AIO does not in any shape manner or form affect the lifespan of a pump unless the AIO you've been sold has a large air bubble(often seen due to bad QC from the factory) and the cavitation of said air bubble in the pump housing.

FYI, you can have push setup on a radiator with it as intake. + AIO leakages have been rampant throughout 2014, 2015 and 2016. It wouldn't be a surprise if the QC dept was compromised since all AIO's like Corsair and their ilk are under the umbrella of Asetek. If we look at makers of custom watercooling hardware, EKWB's and Swiftech, their AIO had suffered from a faulty rubber o-ring seal around the swivel fittings or at the pump end ...just thought I'd put that out there.

Leaks can and will happen, it's just that you need to keep an eye out for it when it happens in order to save yourself from trouble+the company(when supported with proof of defect) will stand by their product and honor any damages the unit might have caused(provided it wasn't tampered with).
 
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Agreed. I've never had an aio leak on me yet, either Corsair or Nzxt, but I have had a client I went through Corsair after their h60 pipe cracked (was the old ringed plasticy kind and sprayed the entire mobo by the socket/ram, shorting everything out. Corsair paid to have the entire pc replaced, case included, but did ask that the aio be upgraded to the new h60i with the rubberized hose instead. Totally cool of them.
 
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