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disolitude on 01 August 2012
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Roma said:
disolitude said:

Nice rig.

For the CPU cooler I'd go with the noctua nh-d14. Its by far the best air cooler on the market and it's better than these closed loop water coolers as well. Only true water cooling is better from my experience...

As far as PSU, that's an pretty easy to buy these days. GTX680s use less power than previous flagship cards so any decent brand name PSU from 850 to 1000W should do and future proof you for any crazy overclocking or upgrades you may decide to do in the future.

Just make sure it has all the connectors you need. No one likes molex to PCIe adapters. :)

For a moment I decided to go with that cooler so I looked up a video on youtube and it got highly prized but then I saw the date 2009 hmm.

Now the price difference isn’t much on the H100 end nh-d14 but I did a google search for best CPU coolers and found this site http://www.frostytech.com/top5heatsinks.cfm

 

But daium that thing is huge haha XD

Here is a 2012 review comparing it with liquid ones.

http://hothardware.com/Reviews/Noctuas-DH14-Can-Air-Cooling-Keep-Up-With-Liquid/?page=5

H100 is better it seems, but Noctua is up there with the rest. 

I prefer air cooling myself so I'd still probably go with Noctua due to near silence and top performance, but if you want the best H100 it seems is the best.