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Cheap, reliable water cooler

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I am upgrading my cpu and motherboard soon and I want to water cool it. I have not water cooled before so I don't want to do anything too complicated. What is a cheap (70-110 dollars) but reliable water cooler that is good for beginners.

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Kraken Series

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the corsair H100i is a good cooler and in your price range 

 

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Deepcool Captain 240EX

 

 

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Thanks, I think I will go with the H100i v2.

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H100iv2

Cools my warm as fuck usually i5 4670k when overclocked to 4.6 really efficiently - always under 65c

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Deepcool Gamer storm captain 129 EX for 80 dollars 

 

Or a dirt cheap but reliable AIO

Deepcool maelstrom 120t

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10 hours ago, Jacm said:

I am upgrading my cpu and motherboard soon and I want to water cool it. I have not water cooled before so I don't want to do anything too complicated. What is a cheap (70-110 dollars) but reliable water cooler that is good for beginners.

 

WHY do you want to watercool? Is it simply aesthetics? Fair enough if so, but you're not going to get performance beyond what a top end air cooler will give you for the same or perhaps even less money. There is nothing complicated about ANY AIO, so you don't need to worry there. They are ALL for beginners. The Kraken X62 is probably one of the best looking options, and will be quieter than the H100. Corsairs AIOs all tend to be a bit on the noisy side in my experience, because of the pumps and fans they use. I'd stay away from anything too cheap... why risk it? You're not going to get very good performance at a low budget. You're better off going with a top end air cooler if you actually want performance, even with a heavy OC.

System: Ryzen 7 5800X - Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master - Noctua D15S Chromax - 32GB 3600 RAM - EVGA Black 2080Ti

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