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Help on CPU cooler choice

Harold Jacques
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Hey all,

 

Looking to purchase an air cooler and start up some overclockling on my rig. Definitely not looking to build a custom loop, and kind of apprehensive about have having any water cooling in the computer. I'm essentially looking for any suggestions of high-end air cooling that could fit inside 20cm wide case. This would be for an i7-6700k on a Z170 board btw. 

 

Also, got my eye on three coolers in a shop near my place: the Cooler Master Hyper 212 Led, the Arctic Freezer I30 (both air coolers), and the Kuhler H2O K120 (AiO water-cooler). Any proposals/suggestions for a starting overclocker?

 

Thx all

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20cm wide case doesnt relate to how tall of a CPU cooler it can hold. We still dont know what to recommend.

 

4 minutes ago, Harold Jacques said:

Cooler Master Hyper 212 Led, the Arctic Freezer I30

too weak for reasonable overclocking.

4 minutes ago, Harold Jacques said:

Kuhler H2O K120

wont out perform the big air coolers, still worth considering if its cheap

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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What case are you using?

Where are you shopping / located? Budget?

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