Need inexpensive cooling.

[perdomot]

Building a Haswell LGA 1150 rig and wanted to ask if there is a good standard cooler I can get. Thanks.

 

[ignatzatsonic]

The included cooler is fine if you have no overclocking intentions and can accept that it is a bit noisy when it gets up around 2000 rpm.

The Coolermaster Hyper 212 Evo is probably the most often recommended add-on cooler. It's not the most efficient, but it's cheapish, easily found, and offers good "bang for the buck". You'd probably use something else if you were trying for a heavy overclock.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...cription=hyper+212+evo&N=100006648&isNodeId=1

If you are noise sensitive, you'd probably want to replace the fan on whatever aftermarket cooler you bought. Maybe with a Scythe Slipstream, Scythe Gentle Typhoon, or a Noctua.

You need to pay attention to the height of the cooler. Narrow tower cases may not accept coolers taller than 125mm, in some instances much lower than that. You can find coolers that are quite short and that have "down-blowing" fans, although they would not likely support a heavy overclock.

And some coolers are so bulky that they overhang one or more RAM slots, which can make DIMM installation and removal problematic. So you may have to use RAM with short heat-spreaders or none at all--if you used an overhanging cooler.

 

[DigDog]

read the post above me for there is nothing else to add

 

[ClockHound]

Ditto....

Except you could spend the same as a 212 + Scythe Fan and get the Scythe Kotetsu with a superior, easier to use mount with a very quiet GlideStream fan while performing better than the 212: http://www.amazon.com/Scythe-SCKTT-...e=UTF8&qid=1431294903&sr=8-1&keywords=kotetsu

If you plan to overclock then a great performance option, <$50 is the Thermalright True Spirit 140 Rev A: http://www.amazon.com/Thermalright-...8&qid=1431294012&sr=8-1&keywords=thermalright (Get within a few degrees of the big dual tower coolers)

If you're not overclocking and just want something much quieter than the stock Intel whizzer, then the Arctic Cooling i11 for $23 is good alternative: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...&cm_re=arctic_cooling-_-35-186-093R-_-Product

Still would be worth scouring the net for deals on the 212 EVO - can usually find it below $30, sometimes under $25.

 

[perdomot]

The included cooler is fine if you have no overclocking intentions and can accept that it is a bit noisy when it gets up around 2000 rpm.

The Coolermaster Hyper 212 Evo is probably the most often recommended add-on cooler. It's not the most efficient, but it's cheapish, easily found, and offers good "bang for the buck". You'd probably use something else if you were trying for a heavy overclock.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...cription=hyper+212+evo&N=100006648&isNodeId=1

If you are noise sensitive, you'd probably want to replace the fan on whatever aftermarket cooler you bought. Maybe with a Scythe Slipstream, Scythe Gentle Typhoon, or a Noctua.

You need to pay attention to the height of the cooler. Narrow tower cases may not accept coolers taller than 125mm, in some instances much lower than that. You can find coolers that are quite short and that have "down-blowing" fans, although they would not likely support a heavy overclock.

And some coolers are so bulky that they overhang one or more RAM slots, which can make DIMM installation and removal problematic. So you may have to use RAM with short heat-spreaders or none at all--if you used an overhanging cooler.

Been using the original 212 with a Gentle Typhoon fan for a long time and was interested in the Evo. Thanks.

 

[perdomot]

Ditto....

Except you could spend the same as a 212 + Scythe Fan and get the Scythe Kotetsu with a superior, easier to use mount with a very quiet GlideStream fan while performing better than the 212: http://www.amazon.com/Scythe-SCKTT-...e=UTF8&qid=1431294903&sr=8-1&keywords=kotetsu

If you plan to overclock then a great performance option, <$50 is the Thermalright True Spirit 140 Rev A: http://www.amazon.com/Thermalright-...8&qid=1431294012&sr=8-1&keywords=thermalright (Get within a few degrees of the big dual tower coolers)

If you're not overclocking and just want something much quieter than the stock Intel whizzer, then the Arctic Cooling i11 for $23 is good alternative: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...&cm_re=arctic_cooling-_-35-186-093R-_-Product

Still would be worth scouring the net for deals on the 212 EVO - can usually find it below $30, sometimes under $25.

Thanks for all the great options. Appreciate it.

 

[jji7skyline]

How budget are we talking about here? You could even scavenge one of those AMD stock coolers with heat pipes to cool your rigs marginally better than the Intel Stock cooler. You'll have to use zipties to strap it on though, lol.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

With me, this was always an attempt to find the cooler with the lowest thermal resistance, a simple shape, no need for more than one fan hanging on it but capable of it. One review showed the 212 EVO to perform 5C worse than an NH-D14, and another concluded they were even.

But it's compact with simple shape, dual-fan capable, fins open on four sides if I recall. I have three in running systems within the house. I've got a D14 and an EVGA ACX. For the price, the 212 EVO may be a choice that admits a balanced overclock on a Haswell i5 or i7 K.

But something like a 4790K barely needs more than modest tweaks to run all four cores at 4.4 Ghz in Turbo mode. Some say to avoid the AVX2 enhancements to stress-tests. So the EVO should be comfortable with that. And you'd barely spend $35 or so. Other possibilities I mentioned are $55 and maybe $70 to $75-something. You could spend $100 on an AiO cooler -- maybe more than that.

Really -- at a minimum for a build I would make, I might spring for an H110i for the Devils Canyon. I'm more likely to make a custom-water rig.

But I've seen enough 4790K projects here to see that you could use the little CoolerMaster EVO. You probably just can't twist up the settings to 4.7. But who cares?

 

[Puffnstuff]

The stock cooler is garbage and you should consider something after setting your budget for it. I am very pleased with my cooler master hyper 212 evo.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

The stock cooler is garbage and you should consider something after setting your budget for it. I am very pleased with my cooler master hyper 212 evo.

With that nice Maximus motherboard, I'm wondering what you did to tweak the clocks of the 4790K -- even in a minimal degree.