Another obsidian question

[nyenthrodumy]

Hey guy's I really need some advice on cooling. I have watched the video review, but I still have a couple of questions. Let me start by telling you about my current set up. I have an Asus M4A785TD-V Evo mobo with an AMD phenom II 965be 3.4ghz (140watt) and I'm using an Nvidia 8800gt which I plan to upgrade when the new Ati cards come out. Currently all the cooling is stock, my cpu at idle is about 38 degrees (I have a pretty cold room) and my gpu is basically on fire at anywhere from 71 degrees all the way to 76 AT IDLE. Under stress my cpu gets to about 48 degrees and the gpu gets all the way to 102 at times when playing crysis. The problem is when I overclock the cpu it gets to 68 degrees during prime95 and that's with a 3.7ghz overclock. According to AMD the CPU I currently have can run at it's full potential at 62 max. I know I shouldn't overclock with my stock cooling but I just wanted to try it out. Now for my questions. What would be the best set up for this case? I have 2 different ideas in mind right now and I'm wanting to know which is best, and if you guys have any ideas that you can throw at me. Btw I'm wanting 4.0ghz out of this cpu, at least that's what I'm trying to get.

Option 1- Noctua nh-d14 with 3 fans up top for exhaust with back fan blowing in, also all case fans upgraded.

Option 2- Same as option #1 but with a Corsair H70.

I know the review video says H50 and not to go air cooling, but the review was before the Noctua review and the H70 review.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Brandon

 

[tinytomlogan]

easy one get the Noctua and stop buying shoddy corsair parts

 

[nyenthrodumy]

Thanks Tom!

 

[alienware]

easy one get the Noctua and stop buying shoddy corsair parts

I will endorse your message...

I have a H50. It's OK. It cools well and it gets the job done. But. By the time you get it cooling well and getting the job done you have added two rather expensive fans and two shrouds. By which time it is more expensive than pretty much any other cooler on earth and then twice as noisy.

My Noctua does not cool as well, but, only uses a single 140mm fan that's completely and utterly inaudible even on 12v at constant full speed. And, for 2c more on both load and idle I can live with that*

*Do bear in mind I am using the top down cooler with a single fan, not the monstrous NH14D thing.

 

[nyenthrodumy]

After all that I'm actually thinking about going with an all water cooled system. I'm not dead set on it yet because this will be my first WC build. I started thinking tho all this money I'm going to be spending on air cooling I might as well spend the extra money and do it right

. Thanks for the help, I'm sure I will need it for ordering the new parts and throughout the install.

 

[AMDFTW]

I will endorse your message...

not the monstrous NH14D thing.

DH14

 

[alienware]

DH smee H. All the same (sort of.. Oh ok knob, I was wrong

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