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Best quiet cooler for overclocking bitfenix prodigy with optical drive

Mrklaw
By Mrklaw
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I'm switching out my old sandy bridge i5 for a skylake i7, and wondering if I should replace my h60 cooler too. It is fairly quiet but the constant pump noise even at idle is irritating, when the rest of my system is so quiet (passive GPU and PSU fans at idle/low load)

 

so I'm looking at air as an option. I have a bluray drive I don't want to lose, so that probably limits my height. Can someone recommend a good, quiet air cooler that will fit in a prodigy mini ITX case and leave room for an optical drive? I don't have any top fans- I have a 230mm spectre in the front and I have the h60 radiator as exhaust at the rear which I'd swap out for a noctua fan 

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2 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

This thing: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/noctua-cpu-cooler-nhd15

thats the only thing to get on the market that makes any sense if your not doing full on watercooling or cant fit it IMO

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Thanks - appreciate the quick reply. That will fit in a mini ITX prodigy and leave clearance for my optical drive? And no worries about a GPU (will get a 1070 when the better boards come out) which will probably blow into the case.

 

 

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Just now, Mrklaw said:

Thanks. That will fit in a mini ITX prodigy and leave clearance for my optical drive? And no worries about a GPU (will get a 1070 when the better boards come out) which will probably blow into the case.

 

 

Yeah, I checked with http://pcpartpicker.com/

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