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AIO vs air cooler

Dinnerb0n3

I'm looking for a cooler for my R7 1700x and I'm stuck between the Corsair h55 for 49.99$ and the Arctic freezer eSports one for 32.99$.

I will be overclocking the CPU, so which one should I get?

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IMO 120mm AIOs are a waste of money, so go the air cooler option.

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3 minutes ago, Dinnerb0n3 said:

R7 1700x and I'm stuck between the Corsair h55 for 49.99$ and the Arctic freezer eSports one for 32.99$.

air +1

I clocked my r7 1700 @1.4v / 3900mhz on 212 cooler w/2 fans

load 75C/ gaming ~60C/ idle under 40C

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AIOs less than 120 USD usually perform worse than air coolers @ the same price. However, AIOs can save space in the chassis, and can make cable management/swap memory easier.

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If you have budget for $50 AIO, you have budget for $50 air cooler. 

FSP Windale 6, Scythe Mugen 5, Lucifer V2, Brocken 3 (assuming you can find one) are solid options in that price range

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120mm AIOs are garbage and shouldnt be bought outside of some very few edge cases or for GPU mounting. get the air cooler

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While I don't really recommend that AIO unit in particular (not a great bang for your buck) I would still recommend AIO over HSF. Despite the hate for 120mm's here, my Corsair H100i (4 or 5 years old now) runs my overclocked Ryzen 1700@4ghz at 1.4 volts without exceeding 65c (on the quiet profile, mind you). Runs dead silent and idles around 25-30c.

 

All of this assumes you have proper airflow on your rig and can keep the VRMs cool. For $100+ I recommend AIO's over HSF, under $100 and it varies. I personally prefer to not hang a giant hunk of metal off a thin piece of silicon, but some of those HSF coolers do pretty damn good these days.

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=Only reason to get midrange AIO is looks. They don't offer anything else. They might be option if you limited by space, aka having small case. But only top-end dual/triple rads can be argued to be better option. But even still they are more about being for looks as you can get same results with top-end air coolers.

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If I have to use a 120mm liquid cooler, I would use a thicc 120mm rad, like Alphacool Eisbaer 120, but its price is the down side, it's US$130 for a 120mm AIO which is on a tier 2 list, I would prefer the "Le Grand Macho RT" than any other aircoolers or AIOs

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I prefer Air Coolers due to the concerns that AIOs or all types of liquid coolers could leak. Or the pump failing. Air Coolers are much easier to deal with. If the fans die. Just replace them with new ones.You just need to dust the heatsink every now and then.

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18 hours ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

120mm AIOs are garbage and shouldnt be bought outside of some very few edge cases or for GPU mounting. get the air cooler

The h80v2 is damn good 120mm AIO  and there are a few more...

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1 hour ago, kidroc666 said:

The h80v2 is damn good 120mm AIO  and there are a few more...

They are literal garbage for what you pay. Performance is OK but a cheaper air cooler beats them 

I spent $2500 on building my PC and all i do with it is play no games atm & watch anime at 1080p(finally) watch YT and write essays...  nothing, it just sits there collecting dust...

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1 hour ago, kidroc666 said:

The h80v2 is damn good 120mm AIO  and there are a few more...

But the price is too damn high. Might as well buy AIO with 50mm rad and bundle second fan, better performance for same price

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Why are you looking at these coolers in particular? What case and ram are you using?

Where are you shopping / located?

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My corsair h115i AIO broke after like 3 years (more precisely the pump stopped working). so I went back to a Noctua nh-d15. acoustics is almost the same (had 4x noctua 14" in push/pull, with a custom-silent curve). 

 

so the hassle is not worth it. get a decent air cooler and you'll be fine and have more money to spend on performance gains.

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