Air or Water cooling?

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Hi guys,

I'm building a wall mounted PC with a i5 7600k, GTX 1060 and 16GB RAM. Not looking to overclock but struggling to find cooling solutions. Is it worth water cooling just for the sake of the CPU as I'm struggling to find a cooling block for the GPU (1060 or anything below it.) If not how should I air cool it?

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Not much point water cooling mid-range GPUs, the money is better spent on the next GPU up. Typical full cover water block is about $100, plus fittings, radiator, etc and it easily gets you into the next GPU bracket and wouldn't perform as well as the cheapest card.

CPU water cooling is not necessary if you don't plan on overclocking. However, given how easy it is to add a few hundred Mhz to something like a 7600k, why not? Even with air cooling you can get away with quite a lot.

Another option if you aren't planning to overclock would be to get a faster CPU like the 7700 and save the money on the cooling to put it towards that.

Really though, any $25-35 tower air cooler is going to work for your build. You could go a little more...
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Not much point water cooling mid-range GPUs, the money is better spent on the next GPU up. Typical full cover water block is about $100, plus fittings, radiator, etc and it easily gets you into the next GPU bracket and wouldn't perform as well as the cheapest card.

CPU water cooling is not necessary if you don't plan on overclocking. However, given how easy it is to add a few hundred Mhz to something like a 7600k, why not? Even with air cooling you can get away with quite a lot.

Another option if you aren't planning to overclock would be to get a faster CPU like the 7700 and save the money on the cooling to put it towards that.

Really though, any $25-35 tower air cooler is going to work for your build. You could go a little more expensive for absolute silence and get something like a Noctua or Phanteks 140mm+ cooler. An equivalent water cooler would start around $80 and go up from there,
 
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as already said, there is no point in liquid cooling mid-range systems.
for the price of the component + the block, you can get a higher tier component that will perform better. for example for the price of 1060 + water block, you can get a 1070 or even 1080. for the price of liquid cooled i5, you can get an i7.

As for your plan - in two days intel will announce the coffee lake line with pricing and availability. the 4 cores will become an i3.
You probably should wait and see if you can manage to wait till those new CPUs hit the market.
 
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