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Nice H2O CPU Cooler roundup at AT

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I've just never been able to convince myself to go H2O. The good air coolers get me plenty of OCing ability and stay quieter than my power supply.
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According to the guys at PCper.com, whose opinions I respect, there are affordable air coolers now that can usually match the performance of a water cooling system, without all the complexity.

Just doesn't seem to make much sense anymore except for bragging rights.
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I still have an old water cooling setup in all my junk that I never had the balls to use.. lol Stuffs all worthless now.. hahah
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When I put together my current rig a year ago, I was perusing around Frys and I saw a Corsair H100i setup for dirt cheap, so I picked it up. I don't overclock, so it might be a bit overkill, but I do run an AMD FX-8150 8-core, so anything I can do to keep it cool and relatively quiet isn't a bad thing to me.

If I had had to pay full price for it? Not a chance.
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I will add that the closed systems (systems sold with coolant already in the radiator/block) are kinda neat. Still, unless you are overclocking the crap out of your processor, you can do pretty well with the upper end air coolers.
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i use a big water 700 i think thermaltake made it. its much quieter that any air cooler ive had. had it for 5 years and still going, just have to add fluid sometimes. i get the non conductive pc ice coolant. 1 quart ($11.00) lasts me 2 years. it was designed for a am1 i think but is so close to fit am3 just needed slightly longer screws.
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