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[Tradesman1]

Be a good build, I'd go with an air cooler like the 212 EVO, cheaper and much better than the H60

 

[Karadjgne]

according to specs, you can put a total of 7 fans in that case. 2x 120/140mm in front, 2x 120/140mm in top, 1x 120mm exhaust, and 2x 120/140mm in the window. unless you really need them, I'd not use the window mounts, they'd need to be dust-filtered, and that would take away from the good looks the window provides.

If you are really set upon liquid cooling, I'd move up from the h-60 to the h-80i or Thermaltake water3.0 PRO, a single radiator system like the h-60, but a lot beefier, and quite able to handle OC temps. Otherwise for air-cooled, a CM Hyper212 EVO is rated at 185watts, or double what your cpu is rated at, so would work very well there, could even use 2x LED fans there too if rated for radiator use. Word of caution, make sure your intake ratio is higher than exhaust, or you end up sucking in dust from every nook and cranny, and not through the provided dust filters.

You should easily be able to play on high-ultra settings in most games, but some, like BF4 Multiplayer, you'll see some slower fps, especially if you try Anti-Aliasing in Ultra.

Other than that, looks like a nice solid build.

 

[Deleted member 1355262]

according to specs, you can put a total of 7 fans in that case. 2x 120/140mm in front, 2x 120/140mm in top, 1x 120mm exhaust, and 2x 120/140mm in the window. unless you really need them, I'd not use the window mounts, they'd need to be dust-filtered, and that would take away from the good looks the window provides.

If you are really set upon liquid cooling, I'd move up from the h-60 to the h-80i or Thermaltake water3.0 PRO, a single radiator system like the h-60, but a lot beefier, and quite able to handle OC temps. Otherwise for air-cooled, a CM Hyper212 EVO is rated at 185watts, or double what your cpu is rated at, so would work very well there, could even use 2x LED fans there too if rated for radiator use. Word of caution, make sure your intake ratio is higher than exhaust, or you end up sucking in dust from every nook and cranny, and not through the provided dust filters.

You should easily be able to play on high-ultra settings in most games, but some, like BF4 Multiplayer, you'll see some slower fps, especially if you try Anti-Aliasing in Ultra.

Other than that, looks like a nice solid build.

Thank you my friend. I've gone ahead and changed to a h-80i and it's looking good.

Any more advice? Also, would I be looking at around 50 fps on most games on high-ultra?

 

[Karadjgne]

Most games you can probably play Ultra on and still see 50+ fps, with no AA, and some like guildwars2 you could even use AA, I do with a 660ti. It's only the super-realistic highly intensive games like Battlefield 4 that AA is going to hurt you some. For those games, if budget would allow, I'd say you'd be happier with a gtx 770, but that's a rather large jump in price, even given the performance increase.