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CPU Air or Water cooling? Performance is the main aspect

bughtoo
By bughtoo
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Hello,

 

I had Cooler Master 120M Seidon but after one day of being on it started to do a unbearable clicking noise, made some research and found thats its made by faulty bearings in the pump, so I asked for a refund and now i am looking for a CPU Cooler. 

 

My build is 

ASUS Maximus VII Hero

i7 4790K  

GEIL Red 2x8GB 2133MHz

2-way AMD Radeon R9 290x CF

Kingston SSDNOW 250GB  

2TB Seagate Barracuda 

Cooler Master HAF-X 942 

EVGA Supernova 1000W 80+ Platinum

 

Budget is 120€ and the best thing would be if the cooler had Red/Black theme, but its not required.

 

What do you think guys? Tell me everything thats on your mind

 

Thanks in advance!!!

ASUS Maximus VII Hero | i7 4790K OC 4.8GHZ | 4x8GB 2400MHz | MSI GTX 1070 alphacool eiswolf gpx pro
Samsung 850 EVO 520GB + Corsair 525gb + 275gb SSD  | 2TB Seagate Barracuda | 8TB Seagate Archive

Cooler Master HAF-X 942 | EVGA Supernova 1000W 80+ Platinum | Custom watercooling loop (gpu+cpu)

360mm+180mm rad and 10 fans | Swiftech D5 mcp655-B

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Kraken x61 or if you want air cooling BeQuiet dark rock pro 3. 

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A corsair H105, quiet and better than a H100i because its a thicker version of it. Has interchangeable rings for your red/black theme.

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Watercooling for pure performance and air for performance for the price.

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If you wanna do watercooling then go for a 240mm Cooler because theres a lot of aircoolers that perform just as well as 120mm AIO and dont have the pump noise

Core i7 4820K  |  NH-D14 | Rampage IV Extreme | Asus R9 280X DC2T | 8GB G.Skill TridentX | 120GB Samsung 840 | NZXT H440  |  Be quiet! Dark Power Pro 10 650W

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I was thinking Cooler Master V8 GTS. Since its very nice design, quiet, and matches the red/black theme, also enough room for high RAM. Benchmarks look quite nice, or not?

ASUS Maximus VII Hero | i7 4790K OC 4.8GHZ | 4x8GB 2400MHz | MSI GTX 1070 alphacool eiswolf gpx pro
Samsung 850 EVO 520GB + Corsair 525gb + 275gb SSD  | 2TB Seagate Barracuda | 8TB Seagate Archive

Cooler Master HAF-X 942 | EVGA Supernova 1000W 80+ Platinum | Custom watercooling loop (gpu+cpu)

360mm+180mm rad and 10 fans | Swiftech D5 mcp655-B

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