I7 8700k and the Akasa Voodoo Venom

[nukpana84]

Hi all,

I'm posting this on a couple of forums trying to gather knowledge and opinion.

I'm currently looking at using a UK pc building company (Chillblast) for a gaming rig and it comes with the i7 8700, the cooling options they recommend include the Akasa Venom Voodoo, but I'm struggling to find good info on it.

Does anyone here use this cooler alongside this cpu? What are your thoughts?

The other option the company provide are the Corsair hydro h60 or h75. Both of which I don't read great things about, but this company seem well respected so would thought they use what they think works well.

Also the build so far

Case - Fractal r5
Mobo - Gigabyte z370m D3h
Gpu - Gtx 1080 ti
Cpu - i7-8700
Psu - Corsair cs650m
Cooler - venom voodoo/ h60 / h70
16GB ram

Between those 3 I'm looking for the usual holy grail, best out of them for cooling / low noise

Many thanks

 

[James Mason]

It's a bit of an old cooler design from 2012.
https://www.kitguru.net/components/cooling/steve-ruxton/akasa-venom-voodoo-cooler-review/7/
They probably got it kinda cheap.

But the 8700 would also be relatively fine with the stock CPU cooler.
That's kind of a bad PSU though, see if they have any higher quality ones (wattage isn't a measure of quality)

 

[nukpana84]

Thanks for the response James. It's proving quite tricky as I have opinions from stock, use the corsair h75, or go with voodoo! No one choice seems to be the common answer.

The other options listed for Psu are mostly a variety of Corsair CX range, non modular and modular bronze options.

If all of these aren't great I may give them a call see if they have options that aren't listed.

Thanks again

 

[James Mason]

Well, they're definitely trying to upsell you. Unless the CX's were the 2017 model, they're also garbage. The modular ones may be okay.
I'm just gonna say, if you've got 3-5 hours, you can build one self (with 2 hours spent watching a how to build video)
Building your own computer is easy. Building it takes 2-3 hours, and installing windows takes about 30mins to 45mins, and after that downloading and installing drivers takes another 30-45 mins. After all that, have it download windows updates at night, it may take a 2-4 passes to get them all.

Building a PC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIF43-0mDk4
Installing Windows:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zAdwedmj1M

Protip for installing drivers safely, install them one at a time and restart the computer after each install to avoid breaking the OS, which can happen if you try to install them all at once.