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Which cooler should I pick?

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I'd go with the liquid cooler. If you upgrade later on it will be useful. It it is a little over €10 more for the liquid cooler.

Im building a budget gaming pc, but im not sure which cooler to use. 

 

I ve got 1 water cooler in mind and 1 air cooler but which on is best? 

Or is a totally different one better?

 

Cooler Master Seidon 120V Ver.2Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO

which one would be best or which general cooler would be best

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I'd personally recommend the Cooler Master 120V. It's what I use and it works great.

Corsair 230T Black with red LEDs • AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core • Cooler Master Seidon 120V 86.2 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0 ATX AM3+  Kingston HyperX Genesis 8GB (2 x 4GB) Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB (2 x4GB)  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB • Corsair RM 650W • Windows 10 • Logitech G403 + G810 • Audio Technica ATH-TAD300 • 1TB Seagate HDD x 2 256GB SanDisk SSD

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This one 

Intel Core i3-4150 Boxed

for now but prob ill upgrade after a few years orsomething

Yea, that CPU only has a 54W TDP. Stock cooling it would probably be fine. Water cooling would be extreme overkill. For reference, that EVO air cooler has about the same surface area (I think) as a Noctua NH-U12P (based on photos, I didn't look up measurements). The Noctua cooler I am using is currently keeping a 238W TDP (because of overclocking) CPU below 80C in a 25C room...the air cooler will do just fine with your CPU.

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Yea, that CPU only has a 54W TDP. Stock cooling it would probably be fine. Water cooling would be extreme overkill. For reference, that EVO air cooler has about the same surface area (I think) as a Noctua NH-U12P (based on photos, I didn't look up measurements). The Noctua cooler I am using is currently keeping a 238W TDP (because of overclocking) CPU below 80C in a 25C room...the air cooler will do just fine with your CPU.

Even when I upgrade later to a higher CPU?

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I'd go with the liquid cooler. If you upgrade later on it will be useful. It it is a little over €10 more for the liquid cooler.

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