Which cooler ??? Help

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Brockwinch

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I'm looking into buying a PC for mostly gaming and not really interested in overclocking but I'm stuck on which cooling device to get, I know I don't need anything too drastic but I need something able to keep the system cool enough to last the years. So the Triple copper heatpipe or Crosair hydro h40 or h60 ??
Any other advise on the specs welcomed.

Here's the specs:



Case PCS MAELSTROM T900 BLACK GAMING CASE

Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-3770 (3.4GHz) 8MB Cache

Motherboard ASUS® P8H61-MX USB3/SI: uATX, USB 3.0, SATA 3.0Gb/s

Memory (RAM) 8GB SAMSUNG DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (2 X 4GB)

Graphics Card 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 660 Ti - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready

Memory - 1st Hard Disk 1TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 32MB CACHE

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM

Memory Card Reader INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT

Power Supply 450W Quiet 80 PLUS Dual Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan

Processor Cooling Corsair H40 Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler (£39)

Thanks.
 
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Blackdog

Blackdog

Bright Spark
Theres good airflow in your case and if you're not overclocking the triple copper heatpipe cooler will be fine.
 
Niem

Niem

Enthusiast
The triple copper heatpipe will be sufficient for gaming.
You could also go for an i5-3570 + P8Z77 build which is more than enough for gaming and maybe bump your GPU up to a GTX 670 instead.
 
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Brockwinch

Bronze Level Poster
For some reason I can't get the p8z77 only the p8h77 and also can't go higher than a 660ti GPu , is this because of the case I chose? Which is the one I really wanted cause reviews said it was great for cooling.
 
tom_gr7

tom_gr7

Life Serving
no worries mate

if you go for liquid cooling, (which you may not need) but if you do, dont get the h40 but go for the h60. In simple terms corsair whacked a crap fan on the h40 and a much better fan on the h60.
 
tom_gr7

tom_gr7

Life Serving
Lorkem said:
Agree with Tom, I've heard the h40 is very noisy.
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yeah, there was a guy on here that asked about it. With a bit of digging about, i found out its because Corsair have simply installed a 3pin fan, not a 4pin PWM fan (that you would see on most cpu coolers) so the cpu/mobo simply couldnt control the speed and the fan ran at 100% rpm. Which is pretty naf of Corsair!
 
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