Water Cooling necessary for my circumstances?

Joe Doe

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Hi and thanks in advance.

I bought all the components necessary to go ahead and build my system (details below). I don't care at all about noise and will be doing zero overclocking. Will a nice CPU fan and stock GPU etc. fans be ok without watercooling? I've never done watercooling and would rather not have the hassle of maintenance / learning something new (doing that plenty on other things and don't have the time, haha).

Case: Storm Stryker - Full Tower
CPU: i7-6850K
GPU: 2x Titan X's in SLI
MB: ASUS RAMPAGE V EDITION 10 w/ RGB
RAM: 64GB (16GBx4) DDR4/3200MHz GSKILL Ripjaws V
PS: 1,500 Watts - Corsair AX1500i Digital 80 PLUS Titanium
M.2 SSD: 512GB Toshiba OCZ RD400 PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD - 2600MB/s Read & 1600MB/s Write
Probably a few TB mechanical for storage.
Case Fans: Thermaltake Riing RGB Fans w/ 5 modes LED: red, blue, white, green, 256 multicolor & Smart Fan Controller [3xFans]
CPU fan: Something big.

Thank you!
 
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If your not overclocking, you don't need water cooling. End of story. If your cpu doesn't come with a heat sync, purchase an aftermarket cpu cooler. For the cpu, i'd personally spend 50ish on a decent cooler, as your "run of the mill" $20 coolermaster hyper 212 evo won't be able to dissipate heat generated from the i7-6850k. I'd make sure you drop $50ish on a good solid cpu cooler like noctua or cryorig.
If your not overclocking, you don't need water cooling. End of story. If your cpu doesn't come with a heat sync, purchase an aftermarket cpu cooler. For the cpu, i'd personally spend 50ish on a decent cooler, as your "run of the mill" $20 coolermaster hyper 212 evo won't be able to dissipate heat generated from the i7-6850k. I'd make sure you drop $50ish on a good solid cpu cooler like noctua or cryorig.
 
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