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Question Best cooler for rtx 2080 and i7 9700K?
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What is your budget for this cooler, and do aesthetics matter to you at all?
If aesthetics matter to you, what colour scheme is your pc rocking? Even if you do, there aren't going to be many great many options when it comes to air cooling. Any of the Noctua "nh-d15" will greatly serve you thermal needs, and if you don't like the look of the coolers. You could invest in some Noctua "chromax" series accessories that attach to the coolers and make them look far better.
If aesthetics matter to you, what colour scheme is your pc rocking? Even if you do, there aren't going to be many great many options when it comes to air cooling. Any of the Noctua "nh-d15" will greatly serve you thermal needs, and if you don't like the look of the coolers. You could invest in some Noctua "chromax" series accessories that attach to the coolers and make them look far better.
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Noctua NH-D15. It doesn't get better for air cooling. GPU is fine as is. The other choices (Phanteks PH TC14PE, Dark Rock Pro) perform nearly as well, but with better aesthetic appeal. Honestly, the Noctua NH-D15 'absorbs' the light of the other components, and I think it looks cool like that. Noctua NH-D15 seems to win in RAM clearance as well, and even has a 'D15s' version for smaller builds.
Also, the redundancy of this post compared to the above post is just to help you understand this is widely the best answer for air cooling your processor.
Also, the redundancy of this post compared to the above post is just to help you understand this is widely the best answer for air cooling your processor.
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Hi, thanks for all the replies! All the coolers are good but I’m not rich enough to buy those cooler. Can you try to find one that is under $50. Thank you! Have a nice day!
Honestly if you can't afford to cool it then you can't afford a 9700K. The cooler is not included and should be thought of as part of the system cost. There are no $50 coolers that are sufficient. Even with the air coolers listed the CPU will still throttle if you run an ( unrealistic ) AVX heavy workload. And you certainly aren't going to do much if any overclocking on air.
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I have both that CPU and GPU, and have to concur with anort3, here. You've just dropped well over $1200-$1500 to support this CPU and GPU, but $50 is your budget for a cooler?
That's like buying a Ferrari and buying tires for it at Walmart.
If you have issues with $50, https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cooler-master-masterair-ma410m-cpu-cooler,5813.html
It usually fluctuates between $50-$60, depending on when you purchase. I probably wouldn't recommend anything below this...Noctua 14/15 or Dark Rock 4 Pro.
That's like buying a Ferrari and buying tires for it at Walmart.
If you have issues with $50, https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cooler-master-masterair-ma410m-cpu-cooler,5813.html
It usually fluctuates between $50-$60, depending on when you purchase. I probably wouldn't recommend anything below this...Noctua 14/15 or Dark Rock 4 Pro.
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There's 2 types of cooling commonly available and in use by the general public. Air or liquid. You state emphatically no liquid please, so that leaves only Air as an option. There are no air coolers made for gpus other than the coolers that come with them, so your choice of gpu doesn't matter. Which leaves the cpu. Which doesn't include a stock cooler for a reason. They don't make stock air coolers big enough to handle that cpu.
Amd tried that experiment once, a long time ago, and failed. They included a liquid cooler with the 9 series FX cpus, charged $600. Few bought the cpu/cooler. Those who did, threw the cooler in the trash, it was nowhere near big enough for the loads. The next batch of cpus was sold at $500 without the cooler. Intel gained knowledge for free, don't put coolers in boxes ppl will not use and just throw away. It costs Intel money for coolers they give away for free.
So there's only one rule about coolers for cpus like the 9700k, 9900k etc. Go Big or go home. There's no gray area. If you can't afford the right cooler for the cpu leave it in the box until you can. Incentive program...
Amd tried that experiment once, a long time ago, and failed. They included a liquid cooler with the 9 series FX cpus, charged $600. Few bought the cpu/cooler. Those who did, threw the cooler in the trash, it was nowhere near big enough for the loads. The next batch of cpus was sold at $500 without the cooler. Intel gained knowledge for free, don't put coolers in boxes ppl will not use and just throw away. It costs Intel money for coolers they give away for free.
So there's only one rule about coolers for cpus like the 9700k, 9900k etc. Go Big or go home. There's no gray area. If you can't afford the right cooler for the cpu leave it in the box until you can. Incentive program...
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Best cooler for rtx 2080 and i7 9700K?
Budget $100 and below
Air and water cooling is fine but didn't try water cooling before so don't know is water or air cooling better.
Color can be any color just not brown
Budget $100 and below
Air and water cooling is fine but didn't try water cooling before so don't know is water or air cooling better.
Color can be any color just not brown
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