CPU Cooler Advice

[jamesriley94]

Hi,

I've put together a Prodigy rig, I'll put pictures up at some point once I've had chance to sort things out and tidy everything.

But, I'm currently running with the stock cooler, and it really needs changing.
I've been considering an H100i or another AIO, but most of the threads that I've read on here and heard from people seem to end in the pump making loud noises, or the pump failing, so I'd much prefer an air cooler. Also, money's massively short atm, so don't really want to be spending £90 on an H100i...

Now here's the problem,
As much as I'd love a D14, it won't fit in with the graphics card:

Does anyone know any air coolers that come out to the side at all and so will fit that - and also perform reasonably well whilst being very quiet? Or am I going to have to go with an AIO thing?

The RAM height won't be a problem - I've got enough kits here I can change to if need be.

I'm also half considering selling the 3570k and motherboard (Asrock H77 ITX) and just going for Haswell, as the motherboard isn't that great (as you can see from the picture it isn't laid out well at all), but we'll have to see how things go!

Cheers in advance.

 

[SavageCupcake]

Maybe one of the noctua lp coolers or a 212 evo ( if it would fit )

 

[Feronix]

Tbh, I doubt that any cooler that would actually fit will be much of an improvement over the stock cooler.

 

[jamesriley94]

Cheers for the replies -
Aside from the NH-L9i - which to me is basically a stock Intel cooler with a Noctua fan for £35, I don't think anything else will fit from Noctua.
Don't really fancy that either as reviews say a 3570k still gets up to 70 degrees C at stock which is no better than I'm getting now.

I'm thinking an AIO cooler will be the only option really.

 

[vorticalbox]

could go for 120mm rad AIO, specialtech have quite a few for under £50

http://www.specialtech.co.uk/spshop/customer/All-in-One-CPU-Coolers-cid-2562.html