Any good non-tower coolers for 6700K?

[POPCORNS 1068]

I'm trying to find a air cooler without these huge heatsinks and I want their fans to face the side of the case. It is for my Intel Core i7-6700K (Won't do any overclocking for now)

I also don't want them to cover a big part of the motherboard.(like the CM Gemin coolers does)

I found the cm vortex plus for now, but before choosing this one,
I want to know if there are more options for me.

 

[Ethanh100]

As you said the Cooler master Geminii is a good option, also the shadow rock LP from be quiet! is a good option, it is a little lower profile, but will have less cooling capacity. The Dark Rock TF is very tall and not much smaller vertically than a regular tower cooler, but uses this vertical design and has a lot of cooling capacity.

 

[ryguybuddy]

Here is a good low-profile cooler:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835608029&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-PC&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-PC-_-pla-_-CPU+Cooling-_-N82E16835608029&gclid=CjwKEAjw652_BRDfkebVrdOGkDISJAD0Q2RuazNHdTOo8ewFEo6IV22JorM7R8qTszdEelPMlJV-ohoCpo7w_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

It is ranked best low-profile cooler by Tom's Hardware themselves. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/low-profile-heat-sink-mini-itx,3639-22.html

 

[Ecky]

Surface area is the name of the game when it comes to cooling. Smaller coolers are necessarily less effective. Tower coolers are built tall so they don't have to be as wide.

I have the NH-L9i on my i5, and it's not a bad cooler, but it's only marginally better than Intel's stock cooler - which is to say I can stay under throttling at 4.6ghz while running Prime95, but it gets very warm and quite noisy.

Noctua's NH-L9x65 would be a good bit better and not much larger.

 

[madmatt30]

^ the shadow rock lp is a good choice, the deepcool Gabriel is another one.
Phanteks tc12
Cryorig c1


You absolutely shouldnt buy the vortex plus for a skylake i7, its plainly not good enough imo.

Most decent blower coolers are low profile & at least 120mm simply because they need the added surface area on the heatsink .

Exception to the rule is the noctua lh9 but it looks plain ugly.

 

[Ecky]

Speak for yourself, I like how Noctua's coolers look. =P

 

[POPCORNS 1068]

I might consider the noctua L9i and NH-L9x65, but can I replace their fans with some black ones? or paint them?

 

[Ecky]

The selling points of Noctua's coolers is that Noctua makes what are hands-down the best fans in the industry. These fans typically sell for $20-25 each, because they push more air with less noise and vibration than pretty much any other fan. Painting them or replacing them would ruin this. You're better off buying a different cooler.

 

[madmatt30]

^ the problem mate is that 60% of thevreasom noctua coolers are such good performers is down to their fans.

No-one can touch them on performance to size & noise levels.
You like me to not take to the beige brown colour scheme either ??

You can paint the surround , I would never paint the fan blades themselves - you'll imbalance them.

If only noctua would make some other colours !!!

That colour scheme just doesnt fit with 99.999% of builds.

 

[madmatt30]

Sounds like I'm mimicking ecky here ;-)

I'm on mobile & keep getting beaten to the punch !

 

[Ecky]

Noctua does sell some "industrial" fans which are equally high quality, but come in grey and black. These don't come on their tower coolers, however.

 

[POPCORNS 1068]

Why u do dis Noctua

 

[madmatt30]

^ those greys are the redux
Nf-b9 redux pwm

They're like $15-20 & work well as CPU cooling fans - if you'd put up with grey??

 

[POPCORNS 1068]

I will go with the NH-L9x65, I just realized they fit my red and black quite well.
As for the replacement fan, I might get the NF-B9 redux-1600 PWM later.

Edit:
Now that I've read some reviews, the NH-L9x65 seems to be a bit too low profile.
And it hit 74c with a 4790K at stock on load.
Maybe I should get a Vortex Plus/GeminII S524 Ver.2 AND pair it with a Noctua 120mm/92mm fan?

 

[POPCORNS 1068]

So my final decision is to get the GeminII S524 Ver.2 and replace the fan with a NF-A14 industrialPPC-2000 IP67 PWM.
My last question is that, can I at least paint the brown corners black without touching the other parts of the fan? If so, how can I do that?

 

[madmatt30]

The silencio fan on the Gemini is good enough in all honesty.

You wouldn't replace it with the nf-a14 because that's a 140 mm fan.
You want the nf-f12 pwm.

Yea you could paint the corners.
Rough them up with very fine sandpaper & paint with acrylic or enamel.
Acrylic is cheaper , enamel is a bit easier to use.
Both available easily from craft or model shops (or from eBay/amazon)

 

[POPCORNS 1068]

The CM GeminII S524 Ver.2 supports 140mm fans. "Compatible with 140mm fans (optional)" from its page.
So a 140mm is fine, as for the painting, I will decide later. Thanks for helping!