Hello, I was looking at this https://www.overclockers.co.uk/sapphire-vapour-x-w-dual-fan-120mm-cpu-cooler-hs-001-sp.html for my CPU, but thought I would ask if anyone had any recommendations? Dont want to pay more than £60, I have a Silverstone RV02 case so pretty good cooling already. Cheers edit - I plan on doing some overclocking, not a crazy amount.
If I was going to buy an air cooler today it would be either a Scythe Mugen 5 or Thermalright Macho personally - the True Spirit Direct has been getting surprisingly good reviews considering it's ugly looking base though, and it's cheap!
Yes check max CPU height, and then maybe you can buy my TS140P I have no problem recommending TR coolers which is why I've bought so many of them in the past... they're just damned amazing.
I like the look of the AIO but no fan control? Not sure if I should be bothered? Should I? Also main negative is I dont know where to put the radiator no room in my case. Cheers for the suggestions.
AIO are good as long as they are not CLCs. The AlpaCool Eisbaer, be quiet! Silent Loop and Fractal Design Kelvin are good. I think the Silent loop are probably probably quietest, Eisbear has biggest reservoir. All have copper radiators, proper fittings and hoses, and pumps that an move enough coolant to keep a hot CPU nice and cool .. much better then CLCs, but any water cooled system is more prone to problems than a good air cooler is.
A razorblade, liquid metal, and a reference Intel HSF would be better. It sounds flippant, but seriously. It would be great to have an overclocking contest between a delidded 7700K on liquid metal and reference HSF vs a stock 7700k and an H100 or similar.
I'll second the AIO recommendations. They're fantastic, especially in smaller cases, because they don't take up much room, cool really well and the hot air gets ejected without affecting the rest of your components. A lack of integrated fan control won't matter if you stick a PWM fan on there and can control it from your mobo's bios with a fan speed profile (that's what I've done with mine and it works really well).
I was thinking of that, I suppose seeing as the heat is in the pipes it's not like there should be much warm air, the GPU fans blow completely a different way.
This one has really caught my eye now. https://www.overclockers.co.uk/antec-h600-pro-kuhler-120mm-aio-liquid-cooler-hs-013-an.html
https://www.scan.co.uk/products/coo...kit-quiet-compact-120mm-pwm-fan-radiator-for- £10 cheaper and effectively exactly the same.
AIO's are always a good shout, if shapce allows a TS140P, cant use mine in my case because graphics card and ITX that or something from Noctua. All will be quiet.
That's nothing, the Noctua NH-D15 is 1320g, if you're not going to moving the case around weight isn't really a problem.
A mate of mines GPU ended up with a fault due to it slowly bending under its own weight. He has a new GPU now and has a little bit of fishing line to help keep it from bending again! Wont fit, according to amazon that is 170mm, according to silverstone I can have a max of 169mm and I have seen its recommended to have 172mm of space. Bit too tight for my liking
Here is how I had mine set up. I had the air pennys in the bottom bringing in cool air, the GPU rad was on the floor above those (getting one of the 180mm pennys) and the CPU got the air rising from the other one. What you have there is basically a wind tunnel, and everything is pretty much forced up and out of the top. One of the best cooling designs out there, unless you have a GPU with muitple fans on as the top half gets hotter than the bottom and the idea works much better with blower cooled GPUs I found (hence why I had a rad on the GTX 480 Lightning in there).
