Best way to cool this system?

Amberr

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Hello everyone. I am wondering how you would go about keeping this system nice and cool. This includes the case fans and the CPU cooler. I am going to try to keep the cooling under $120. Here is the set up.

GPU: GIGABYTE GV-N970G1 GAMING-4GD GeForce GTX 970 4GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0

Case: NZXT Source 530 CA-SO530-M1 Matte Black Steel / Plastic ATX.

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K Devil's Canyon Quad-Core

Not sure if you really need to know more than that, but if so.

HDD: Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5"

PSU: XFX XTR Series P1-650B-BEFX 650W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified

Memory: HyperX Fury Red Series 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866

Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty Z97 Professional LGA 1150 Intel Z97 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX

Any help would be grateful!
 
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With a 200mm intake, you won't need any other, if you plan on decent OC, you may want to step up the cpu cooler, DC's run hot, hotter than Sandy/Ivy Bridge at same speeds. I'd go for a Noctua nh-d14 or maybe the new Cryorig H5 and use the rest of the fans as exhaust.

-Lone-

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From the case specs on NZXT website, buy 1x 200mm to put it in front, 2x 120mm fans at bottom, those 3 fans for intake. Then buy 1x 120/140mm fan for rear and buy 2x120/140mm fans for top, those 3 for out take. For cpu cooler, I think you'll be okay with the hyper 212.
 

Karadjgne

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With a 200mm intake, you won't need any other, if you plan on decent OC, you may want to step up the cpu cooler, DC's run hot, hotter than Sandy/Ivy Bridge at same speeds. I'd go for a Noctua nh-d14 or maybe the new Cryorig H5 and use the rest of the fans as exhaust.
 
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