How does the performance of this setup compare to say the h80i liquid cooling system or comparable ones?
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I considered both the NH-U12S and the h100i to cool an i7-4790k @ 4.7GHz. The difference on paper was 8-10 degrees, but the cost was another $40 for the water rig. My PC runs 24/7 and I have yet to see the CPU over 40C, whether gaming or doing digital forensic work on it. Other than being able to say "it's water-cooled." I really see no reason to spend the extra money. The NH-U12S does an excellent job cooling and runs very quietly, even on one fan.
117144
The specs said Liquid Cooled but mine isn't either (unless it's like no other liquid cooled device I've ever seen). It runs very cool though so I've had no issues. Still would have been nice if they had the correct info. I must say though after having it for 5 months now I still love it as much as the day I got it.
1184211
Liquid Cooling can suck. Fans last for pretty much ever but water pumps fail. And that's the first thing to fail in a liquid cooling system. And liquid cool requires a lot more maintenance and it's more expensive.
1132055
Stock cooler is fine. It's noisy, though. It may also depend on your case set up - you might have less air flow in your case and/or maybe running Crossfire or SLI with 2 hot GPUs. I have since bought a Coolermaster Hyper 212 EVO, which is awesome. I have a Coolermaster HAF Tower, so I have good air flow in my case naturally. In any case, I doubt you'll have over-heating issues with the stock fan and heatsink without overclocking it.
1347232
There is plenty of room inside this case. I don't have a liquid cooling system but I have seen YouTube reviews showing various installations. It will most likely depend on your video card since that seems to be the largest item installed.
544811
The minimal i would run with and currently do run with is the corsair h100i. Anything less will overheat quickly as this chip is a heat beast.
2202793
Don't use the stock cooler, or the thermal past it comes with. Get your own closed loop water cooler or high end air cooler if you plan to do any type of overclocking. I use a Corsair H100i and it allowed me to get up to 4.7 GHz easily. The overall quality of your cooling solution will ultimately decide how high of an overclock you can get. It isn't necessarily that Haswell is that hot, it can just get very hot while stress testing. A high end cooler will make stress testing much easier and won't limit your max threshold like lower end coolers will.
710153
Yeah that should work, I have 2 of them in a Xeon system. if your overclocking it I would suggest looking at one of the corsair closed loop liquid cooling system. like the H60, H80, or H100. I've got an i7 extreme 2011 running at 4.5ghz with the H80.
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It runs at 3.6Ghz out of the box with stock heatsink, With the Evo 212 will go to 4.0Ghz on air, and with the Corsair H60 water cooler I have clocked it to 4.6Ghz. Keep in mind this CPU generates a lot of Heat 125 Watt TDP at stock up to 150 Watt TDP OC to 4.6. If you are going to have this in a case with a high end video card ex. 7950 or better I highly recommend liquid cooling or your video card will run really hot 75+ deg C. On liquid 45+ deg C.
1141441
Well, i have a coler master seidon 120 xl with mother board crosshair v formula-z and is NOT doing a pretty good job, i will recomend you use liquid cooler
1399878
Yes, the result is very good, no hiccups at all. Stick a coolmaster 212 evo on that cpu and run sc2(cpu and gpu intensive game) on ultra settings get well over 100+fps @ 1080p while staying at about 45 degrees on both the cores and gpu. In fact since it worked so well I purchased another one of these to put in crossfire. I will be trying Crysis and BF4 as benchmarks soon.
2004170
I think that the cooling system is pretty efficient, a little noisy, but makes the work. I work with virtual machines, that demand performance without problem. The battery life is acceptable in this conditions too (2.30 hr using the processor and disk continuosly)
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Well, there's a slight difference. It's mainly price, though. Tom's Hardware ran tests comparing the 2 water coolers, though. Here are the results: Intel Core i5-3570K OC'd to 5.6GHz - Temperature ratings: (Lower is better) Corsair Hydro Series H100i Idle: 54.3(C) Load: 76.3(C) Corsair Hydro Series H110 Idle: 50.2(C) Load: 72.2(C) Intel Core i5-3570K OC'd to 4.6GHz - System Noise (Lower is better) Corsair Hydro Series H100i Idle: 38.9db Load: 47.8db Corsair Hydro Series H110 Idle: 38.8db Load: 44.5db Hope that answers your question. There isn't really "much" of a difference, so it depends if you want to spend an extra $10 or not.
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Depends on the water cooling system you want to use. Does not have pipe ports for water hose so I would use internal system with this case. Thermaltake has some nice ones. Watch the mobo you get with it though. Internal water systems take up a lot of room.
1460242
Boy, there are a lot of variables there!!! I'm on a MSI motherboard with liquid cooling and have no problems. The RAM isn't all that tall. I am making a guess but it should work...that is a very popular cooler.
422642
Yes it would, but I think h100i and H105i are the same there is no improvement in the performance.
2015788
This is the same setup I have running on this board, 8350 with a 280. Under heavy load this cpu gets extremely hot so I would recommend a liquid cpu cooler and a case with excellent airflow. My rig has been running 24/7 without issue. The hottest I've seen my computer get was 134F with an ambient room temp of 87F.