Best Liquid Cooler?

TheOriginalGoth

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• Mar 20, 2015

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Hello, I'm on the fence on if I should get the Noctua NH D15 or a liquid cooler heatsink. My price range for heatsinks is $250 and was just wondering if you guys could give any suggestions on which would be the best for me. My case is a Full Tower ThermalTake Chaser MK-1 series and my CPU is a AMD FX 8320 black edition. My goal is to overclock my cpu to atleast 4.5 or higher.

 

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A custom water cooling loop would be the best but it would be tough to keep in your budget. For an all-in-one water loop, I would say the Swiftech 220-x or 240-x would be top.

 

ATMINSIDE

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Swiftech H-220X

Which will be best depends on how hard you plan to push your CPU.

 

GTXJackBauer

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ATMINSIDE said:

Swiftech H-220X

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That, or a XPSC D5 Photon or XSPC D5 Dual Bay.

 

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If you have ANY interest in watercooling your gpu/gpus best bet is a custom loop. With a $250 budget you can get just about ANY AIO cooler. I had a FX-8350 at 4.6Ghz SOLID under custom water.

Thermaltake has come out with some new AIO coolers and is back into custom wc.

I just assembled the rig below ALL custom watercooled with the GIGANTIC Thermaltake Core X9!

 

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I'm gonna vote for one of the XSPC D5 kits, hands down ^_^

 

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The XSPC kit is a great way to start. Would recommend the D5 pump because you can add a number of blocks on without a problem.

 

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Will the H2O-X20 Elite Series with triple 120mm radiator fit inside the ThermalTake Chase MK-1 series?

 

ATMINSIDE

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No

 

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Then my final question and sorry for being such a newbie at this is; could it fit the Swiftech H240-X?

 

ATMINSIDE

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I'm not sure, but good luck finding one.

 

GTXJackBauer

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A simple google search with your case and different AIOs or "water cooling" used for keywords should find you something.

 

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It's not like I haven't done any searching at all mate. I have does exactly that numourus times. "Can the Thermaltake Chaser MK-I fit the Swiftech H240-X" Blah blah blah. Used different keywords in my searches aswell but have not really found anything. Sorry that I may be comming off rude or anything. I'm just in somewhat of in a rush; hope you can understant. ;-;

 

GTXJackBauer

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Water cooling is a fun hobby. Its not one thing to be rushed with.

Have you read our intro to water cooling before taking the plunge?

A few simple measurements in your case can get you some answers after you got the basic understandings of what it takes and to maintain.

Sorry, I am not familiar with that case or anything Thermaltake for that matter.

Here's one search I found of images of your case and different water cooling projects.

Here's a video as well.