![]() If you get a water cooler, get it for silence or because you have an extremely power hungry component, which can't be cooled with air. a 420 or 480 should do the trick and if you need even more, simply dedicate that behemoth to GPU and get some basic AIO for your CPU. For instance they can say you can put one in front, and one in roof (may others elsewhere), but in reality installing one often blocks you from installing another one or one has to be quite small, so rather just get one huge one right from the beginning. Problem is, while case brands often advertise how large and many radiators you can install, it's almost never quite true. With water, if you have a large enough radiator, fans can spin really slow and make hardly any sound and your temps are still great. Of course same applies to CPU, but if you have even a half decent CPU cooler, you'll hardly hear it from all the GPU fans. No more fans spinning and slowing and spinning and slowing. Where watercooling shines is cooling a GPU. The problem is, people usually buy watercoolers for CPU's, which do not really benefit from them (except maybe Intel 12&13Th gen and maybe 7950X). So what ever you choose in your build just enjoy it! Remember AIR MOVEMENT is critical and you won't get that in a mini or mid case. That is why I chose air cooling then and will continue in the future since I no longer overclock anything, just not worth the hassle. Research will show that their +5C - 10C edge decreases significantly after 2 - 3 years. The life expectancy of the AIO coolers is very disappointing at 5-7 years, especially for the price. Lots of open space and fans to bring in cooler air and remove hot air. For air cooling the case size is the major concern. I quit overclocking several years back and now I use it on my desktop Ryin a Corsair 540 AIR case with 4 140mm fans. Although I also ran 5 case fans, (4 intake, 1exhaust) in a full tower case. Not once did I see temps go above max temps (57C on the 9590). I kept it cool with a Zalman CNPS9900 cooler, (photo in a recent posting). At times I saw this CPU hit clock speeds of 5.2GHz. The base clock is 4.7GHz, but I overclocked it and ran stress test while monitoring temperatures. ![]() I also have a physical Scythe temp monitor on components that needed monitoring. When I first began looking at liquid systems, I had an AMD FX 9590 Black Edition 220W CPU and Corsair Vengence 2133 RAM. I have been partial to Air cooling over Liquid based on cost / performance / life. ![]()
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