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Hi, Im going to build The Rig next week, need help in selecting a CPU cooler. Water Or Air?  used for VFX, video editing & little of gaming.

 

Motherboard
Asus X99-e WS

Processor
Intel i7 5960X

Cabinet
 Corsair Obsidian Series 750D

Corsair Hydro Series H80i or Hydro Series™ H100i GTX, But just scared/worried if there is a leak

 

or

 

Noctua NH-D14 , but that is huge hope it does not block somethings

 

Thanks

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With such a high end CPU go for a NZXT x61 Kraken. You'll have cooler temps then the corsair h100i. Most AIOs do note leak and the companies like corsair and NZXT replace parts if I recall correctly.

 

 

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With such a high end CPU go for a NZXT x61 Kraken. You'll have cooler temps then the corsair h100i. Most AIOs do note leak and the companies like corsair and NZXT replace parts if I recall correctly.

Yeah they sometimes replace parts... it kinda depends TBH

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i have an h100i and love it. id go water for sure. if you mount it exactly how the instructions say to and dont try and modify/tamper with it in any way you should be good to go. also if your really worried im pretty sure you could mount the rad on the bottom of the 750d so if it was to leak it would drip away from the important pieces. but again AIOs dont leak unless you screw with them and try and make them "work better"

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Thermalright Silver Arrow IB-E Extreme.

Main Gaming PC (new): HP Omen 30L || i9 10850K || RTX 3070 || 512GB WD Blue NVME || 2TB HDD, 4TB HDD, 8TB HDD ||  750W P2 ||  16GB HyperX Black DDR4

Main Gaming PC (old, still own) : Intel Core i7 7700K @5.0Ghz || GPU: GTX 1080 Seahawk EK X || Motherboard: Maximus VIII Impact || Case: Fractal Design Define Nano S || RAM : 32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 

Cooling: EK XRES D5 100mm || Alphacool ST30 280mm w/ Vardars || Alphacool ST30 240mm w/ Vardars || Swiftech 3/8 x 1/2'' Lok-Seal Compressions || Swiftech EVGA Hydrocopper Block || Primochill Advanced LRT Orange || Distilled Water

Folding@Home Rig: 2x X5690s @4.6Ghz || GPUs: 2x Radeon HD 7990 || Motherboard: EVGA SR-2 || Case: Corsair 900D || RAM: 48GB Corsair Dominator GT 2000Mhz CL9

Ethereum Mining Rig: Pentium G4400 || Gigabyte Z170X-UD5 TH || 2x GTX 1060s (Samsung & Hynix) 1x GTX 1070 (Micron), 2x RX480s BIOS modded (Samsung), 1x R9 290X 8GB, 1x GTX 1660 Super = ~ 195 Mh/s

Peripherals: 3x U2412M (5760x1200), 1x U3011 (2560x1600) || Logitech G710 (Cherry Blues) || Logitech G600 || Brainwavz HM5 with @Gofspar Mod 

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water definitely water.

 

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Yeah they sometimes replace parts... it kinda depends TBH

as long as you've got a warranty which I think it comes with one and didn't tinker/modify it they should.

 

 

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Croyorig r1 ultimate, almost half the price and performs as good.

Gpu: MSI 4G GTX 970 | Cpu: i5 4690k @4.6Ghz 1.23v | Cpu Cooler: Cryorig r1 ultimate | Ram: 1600mhz 2x8Gb corsair vengeance | Storage: sandisk ultra ii 128gb (os) 1TB WD Green | Psu: evga supernova g1 650watt | Case: fractal define s windowed |

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