First experience with buying liquid cooling

[Treyminater]

Hey guys, I havent had experience with liquid cooling yet. I will eventually be upgrading my 8350x to ryzen. Was curious on if I should pick this liquid cooler up now while it is on sale for 50.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181030&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=IGNEFL122117C&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL122117C-_-EMC-122117-Latest-_-WaterLiquidCooling-_-35181030-S0I&ignorebbr=1

(CORSAIR Hydro Series H60 (CW-9060007-WW) High Performance Water / Liquid CPU Cooler. 120mm)

anyone have any experience with it? 

[PrashMotion]

Yeah you can use this liquid cooler. But AIOs under 240mm aren't really worth it. Might aswell pick up something bigger like the h100i. 

I got my H100i v2 yesterday and on my R5 1600 overclocked to 3.9GHz I only get 65C on the CPU maximum. The 240s have more surface area and so.

[Treyminater]

3 minutes ago, PrashMotion said:

Yeah you can use this liquid cooler. But AIOs under 240mm aren't really worth it. Might aswell pick up something bigger like the h100i. 

I got my H100i v2 yesterday and on my R5 1600 overclocked to 3.9GHz I only get 65C on the CPU maximum. The 240s have more surface area and so.

I see. My main thing was that it was on sale for a pretty cheap price. I suppose that if anything, I could just put the extra money in for a better cooler if its worth my while.

[airdeano]

our experience with the h60 is is just enough, but most experience a loud fan to just keep the CPU cool enough, just to spend $15-$20 more on another fan.

so that puts you into mid-high ended air coolers with better performance with quiet running.

[Treyminater]

3 minutes ago, airdeano said:

our experience with the h60 is is just enough, but most experience a loud fan to just keep the CPU cool enough, just to spend $15-$20 more on another fan.

so that puts you into mid-high ended air coolers with better performance with quiet running.

Is there any decent coolers that you could recommend? I don't mind spending more. I just have little experience so I am also looking for something that is a little noob proof if possible. 

[airdeano]

hard to suggest with little information on build, but:

for liquid nothing less than a 240

for air the wraith is pretty good (unless an X CPU), then the cryorig h7 or noctua u14

[PrashMotion]

2 minutes ago, Treyminater said:

Is there any decent coolers that you could recommend? I don't mind spending more. I just have little experience so I am also looking for something that is a little noob proof if possible. 

Like I said, the H100i v2 might seem a bit overkill on a ryzen 5 but does just fine. The only problem is that the fans have a terrible fan curve, but this can be changed in corsair link

[Treyminater]

8 minutes ago, PrashMotion said:

Like I said, the H100i v2 might seem a bit overkill on a ryzen 5 but does just fine. The only problem is that the fans have a terrible fan curve, but this can be changed in corsair link

Yeah, just didn't know if he had any other suggestions. Just wanted to get an idea of what I could get. Ill probably end up buying the V2, looks nice and seems simple to setup. Thanks!

[PrashMotion]

1 minute ago, Treyminater said:

Yeah, just didn't know if he had any other suggestions. Just wanted to get an idea of what I could get. Ill probably end up buying the V2, looks nice and seems simple to setup. Thanks!

Np. As I have the V2 I can say the installation is very easy, but prepare for teh tubes. Those are quite stiff. Have fun!

[50Shades]

I've got an overclocked i7-7700k at 4.78Ghz stable with an H100i v2. I swapped out the Corsair fans for two Noctua NF-F12's and set the pump to run full speed 24/7 but the fans I set at a static speed of 50% so that I can't hear them. On any game and most synthetic benchmarks I wont see a temp about 65c. I've got the fans set to a push (blowing out) configuration and 3 other corsair case fans pulling air into (pull) the system. It is by far the most stable case cooling setup I've ever tried in 20+ years. With sales and tax the total cooling system was less than $140usd. 

[PrashMotion]

On 25.12.2017 at 5:16 PM, 50Shades said:

I've got an overclocked i7-7700k at 4.78Ghz stable with an H100i v2. I swapped out the Corsair fans for two Noctua NF-F12's and set the pump to run full speed 24/7 but the fans I set at a static speed of 50% so that I can't hear them. On any game and most synthetic benchmarks I wont see a temp about 65c. I've got the fans set to a push (blowing out) configuration and 3 other corsair case fans pulling air into (pull) the system. It is by far the most stable case cooling setup I've ever tried in 20+ years. With sales and tax the total cooling system was less than $140usd. 

Are aftermarket fans really worth it here? I mean the stock corsair fans deliver quite good performance to me

[50Shades]

14 hours ago, PrashMotion said:

Are aftermarket fans really worth it here? I mean the stock corsair fans deliver quite good performance to me

It's true. They aren't worth the $19 USD per fan, but Linus has raved about them for years and I wanted to see what the deal was. They are noticeably quieter than the stock corsair fans as well, though I think that was the sound dampening from the rubber grommets.