i5 4670k liquid cooling

[TwinHeadedEagle]

I am planning on buying liquid cooler to replace my Noctua NH-D14 because it is taking too much space. I am not planning to OC my CPU, i am just looking for some liquid cooler that will have the same or better performance that I currently have.

My case is CM Storm Scout and unfortunately I don't have 2x140mm mount. I can possibly mount 2x120mm fans on the side mounts, but that doesn't seem like a good solution.

What I can do is to go with 1x140mm and I am looking for your suggestions what to buy in this class.

I was thinking about these models:

Nepton 140XL
Kraken X41
Corsair H90

Of course any other suggestion will be appreciated.

 

[grana92]

Any of the Hydro series from Corsair will do. My H80i is keeping my FX6300 furnace bellow boiling point so I'm pretty sure your i5 will do just fine

 

[juanrdp]

I am planning on buying liquid cooler to replace my Noctua NH-D14 because it is taking too much space. I am not planning to OC my CPU, i am just looking for some liquid cooler that will have the same or better performance that I currently have.

Think twice about it, you will be replacing one of the best air coolers that you have already in place to get the same performance with harware that is more prone to failures (and when fail it does usually completely) and probably more noise (you add the noise of the pump to the fan).

Only to gain more space on your tower? i sinceresly dont see the point.

 

[grana92]

From my experience you'll never hear the pump rotating except on cold start. But yes, the fans get noisy

 

[Rogue Leader]

I am planning on buying liquid cooler to replace my Noctua NH-D14 because it is taking too much space. I am not planning to OC my CPU, i am just looking for some liquid cooler that will have the same or better performance that I currently have.

Think twice about it, you will be replacing one of the best air coolers that you have already in place to get the same performance with harware that is more prone to failures (and when fail it does usually completely) and probably more noise (you add the noise of the pump to the fan).

Only to gain more space on your tower? i sinceresly dont see the point.

+1 you have an ultra quiet overkill CPU cooler thats one of the best on the market, so you want to replace with a liquid cooler that will be louder, take up a fan slot, and can fail spectacularly, for no reason other than extra space you do not physically need.

Waste of money and time

Just my 2 cents

 

[logainofhades]

To be honest, one of the reasons I went with an AIO, is I wanted more space. It makes it easier to hook things up within a case, and it gives a cleaner look. My old 212 plus annoyed me, trying to work around it, when doing any kind of cabling, or ram upgrades. That beastly Noctua I can only imagine how bad that is to work with.

 

[juanrdp]

To be honest, one of the reasons I went with an AIO, is I wanted more space.

Hey, is your money, your time and yor system.

I only want to point that for me you are choosing an worse solution in my opinion with only one real upgrade that is a cleaner look, all the rest you are going backwars with an inferior solution. If you want to make the switch it's nice for me.

Usually you never tinker around the Cpu cooler outside the ram (at least if the cable management is well made) and i dont think that you change rams so often to be a valid reason.If the look is so important that you want to sacrifice money, MBTF and sound, well it's your equipment and you choose the priorities.

Btw: Im using water cooling myself but with a 360cm radiator for a almost pasive cooling solution by convection (only in really and maintained workloads the fans start to spin) with a semi-pasive PSU and a also a gpu that is pasive in low loads, but that's my reason, to get a completely silent system outside gamming.

Pd: Ganna92 and yes, even an ultraquiet pump could be heard under silent conditions.

 

[logainofhades]

In my case, I would say it was an upgrade, over my older CM 212 plus. Also I didn't have to remove it from my 3570k board. It was part of a planned upgrade, when I went to a 6700k.

 

[TwinHeadedEagle]

Guys, Noctua is silent with 800RPM, if you put it to work 1500 or 2000 it will be noisy. I don't like noise, but you can't go around it when you have active cooling. Even some PSUs have coil whine issues, so if it really difficult to make a configuration that won't have any grinding or unusual noise problem. I can work with it, only thing I don't want to hear are some unusual pump grindings that I think won't happen with Nepton.

What is important to me is that air cooler is working as good as my Noctua or slightly better, I don't need some crazy results.