Liquid or Fan Cooling for my Build?

[ryandeane7]

Wanted to get everyones thoughts on the build and particularly interested in thoughts on whether or not I should switch to a Corsair Hydro CPU cooler vs the CM Hyper 212 Evo... I'll be moderately overclocking the i7-5820k and am wondering if for the extra $20 its worth switching the CPU Cooler... My build is below...


PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/ZhG799

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler
Motherboard: Asus X99-DELUXE ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws 4 series 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-2800 Memory
Storage:- Samsung 850 Pro Series 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
- Western Digital WD SE 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($124.99 @ B&H)
-(2) Western Digital Raptor 40GB 3.5" 10000RPM Internal Hard Drive (For Pagefile)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB FTW+ ACX 2.0+ Video Card
Case: Cooler Master Storm Trooper ATX Full Tower Case
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX
Optical Drive: LG BH14NS40 Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 - 64-bit (OEM) (64-bit)
Case Fans:
- (1) 200mm Top
- (1) 120mm Rear
- (1) 120mm Bottom
- (2) 120mm Front

 

[Mr5oh]

Your build doesn't make much sense to me, particually the page file drives? Why not just put that money towards a larger SSD? What are you doing that needs 32 GB of RAM?

Anyways, the hydro coolers do cool better. I went back to 212 EVO though after a closed loop cooler dumped coolant all over my PC (which mean I got to build a new PC). The 212 handles my 4690K OC fine though.

 

[ryandeane7]

The raptors and WD 2TB are drives that I've got in my current build (raptors in a RAID configuration)... Didn't figure it was worth throwing them out when I could reuse them... The RAM is necessary for all of the drafting/graphics/3D video rendering that I'll be doing.

Thanks for the input!

 

[Mr5oh]

Ok that makes a lot more sense now. Which water cooler are you looking at? They do tend to cool better in most cases, and with an I7 that you want to over clock, it's probably a good idea. The H80I is a pretty good choice for if you don't have the room for the larger systems.

 

[ryandeane7]

I was considering the Cooler Master Seidon 120M... I'll probably wait a bit to see what temps I'm getting and swap it out if necessary... Really about how I can reconfigure the fans that come with the case already... But after $2K whats another hundred bucks....