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Is there any good looking Air Cooler?

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I have a windowed mid-tower and am looking for both a good-looking and efficient CPU cooler. All of them seem to be huge and bulky, covering up the mobo components in the process. Is there an air cooler on the market that both looks good and allows the mobo components to be visible or is watercooling the only possible system that doesn't cover up the mobo?

 

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There's the Noctua NH-U14 or U12. Then there's the Be Quiet Shadow Rock.

 

I personally recommend the U14. If you don't like the look of the fan, you can always replace it.

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I have a windowed mid-tower and am looking for both a good-looking and efficient CPU cooler. All of them seem to be huge and bulky, covering up the mobo components in the process. Is there an air cooler on the market that both looks good and allows the mobo components to be visible or is watercooling the only possible system that doesn't cover up the mobo?

 

Thanks for your input!

 

be quiet dark rock pro 3 is very nice looking.. I regret it over my h80i tbh

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Well...  paint the stock cooler black with oven paint for one choice.  It'll cover nothing up and show that motherboard. 

If you are interested in just RAM compatibility though, the CRYORIG H5 Universal has that covered but conflicts with the 1st PCI-E slot (if it's a GPU in that slot.)
Also, with CUSTOMOD the CRYORIG R1 Ultimate looks pretty nice and allows you to choose a color, like Red or Green.

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i like thermal take's spinQ and spinQ VT

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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Well...  paint the stock cooler black with oven paint for one choice.  It'll cover nothing up and show that motherboard. 

If you are interested in just RAM compatibility though, the CRYORIG H5 Universal has that covered but conflicts with the 1st PCI-E slot (if it's a GPU in that slot.)

Also, with CUSTOMOD the CRYORIG R1 Ultimate looks pretty nice and allows you to choose a color, like Red or Green.

Yeah, I pimped out my stock cooler for the time being, but it's squeal is way to irritating.

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BeQuiet! Dark Rock Pro 3

CPU: R5 5800X3D Motherboard - MSI X570 Gaming Plus RAM - 32GB Corsair DDR4 GPU - XFX 7900 XTX 4GB Case - NZXT H5 Flow (White) Storage - 2X 4TB Samsung 990 Pro PSU - Corsair RM100E Cooling - Corsair H100i Elite Capellix Keyboard Corsair K70 (Brown Switches)  Mouse - Corsair Nightsword RGB

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i like thermal take's spinQ and spinQ VT

That is a very good looking and compact cooler! Would you happen to know how quiet it is and if its any good?

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That is a very good looking and compact cooler! Would you happen to know how quiet it is and if its any good?

it's pretty wooshy at the very top end. it's really good at heat dissipation though.

 

also, the upright version is kind of tall, if you have a skinny midtower it might not fit.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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