Intel 7700K - Which Air Cooler or AIO to buy

Newyuni · March 27, 2017

Hello,

I got myself a 7700K and an Asus Maximus RoG 8 Ranger - (170)

I am going to update the Bios (for the first time ever) and I need help choosing a Cooler of any kind for my CPU

I ve been looking Into BeQuiet Dark Rock Pro 3 and BeQuiet Silent Loop 240mm as well as BeQuiet Pure Rock 2 (does that one fit ?)

After asking several Members via direct msg they suggested to open a new Thread.

I have only mild overclocking in mind or none at all since I never overclocked anything other than my old GTX 970.

Buying used is fine if it´s quiet and cool enough.

Thank you for your help

A Silver · March 27, 2017

Get a hyper 212 evo and get a second fan. I have that and it never goes above 85C

Newyuni · March 27, 2017

Just now, A Silver said:

Get a hyper 212 evo and get a second fan. I have that and it never goes above 85C

I will consider it - thanks - which fans should I use for that ?

A Silver · March 27, 2017

Just now, Newyuni said:

I will consider it - thanks - which fans should I use for that ?

I have two Corsair ML120 in a push/pull config. Those are a good choice and arent too expensive

Kinda Bottlenecked · March 27, 2017

Budget?

Newyuni · March 27, 2017

1 minute ago, Pohernori said:

Budget?

for both , I´d say 80 or so - will that be enough ? - I really don´t like LED´s btw

Newyuni · March 27, 2017

20 minutes ago, A Silver said:

I have two Corsair ML120 in a push/pull config. Those are a good choice and arent too expensive

23 minutes ago, A Silver said:

Get a hyper 212 evo and get a second fan. I have that and it never goes above 85C

You are useing two case fans to cool your CPU and it´s working ? - that´s something new

Alesek · March 27, 2017

17 minutes ago, Newyuni said:

for both , I´d say 80 or so - will that be enough ? - I really don´t like LED´s btw

if you get something like Noctua NH-D15, you can overclock it and still have it silent. But you need to check if it fits in your case because this thing is enormous.

Tech Wizard · March 27, 2017

6 minutes ago, Newyuni said:

You are useing two case fans to cool your CPU and it´s working ? - that´s something new

He has them attached to the CPU heatsink, instead of the fan that comes with the Hyper 212. He is not using them as case fans. You can't have air cooled CPU with just the heatsink without fans, that would quickly result in overheating.

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