What cooler for a 4770k?

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Would be nice to get to 4.4-4.6, depending on the silicon lottery.
Don't mind if its air or closed water loop, whichever is better really.
So recommendations please?
 
Its going in a coolermaster elite 430.
Budget upto about £60ish unless there's something much better for not much more money?
 
Are the air ones generally better than the likes of the H100?
I do like that K2!!!
 
The k2 and the NH-D14 are very similair in performance. The k2 is a bit better looking, (slight bias as i own one). But due to how the fins angle outwards, it can block some expansion slots depending on your mobo.
 
My chip is a pretty hot runner under stress tests such as p95. Small fft hits the low 90's, blend mid 70's but it hasnt went over 65c in games yet. Ive also swapped out the stock fans for x2 120mm akasa piranhas. The haswell chips are notoriously hot though when stressed with synthetic programs like prime. I just dont bother with them anymore. Stress it with day to day usage.
 
starmanwarz said:
I have the D14 and it is amazing. Ultra quiet and temps are very low, high 60's-low 70's under full load @4.6Ghz :D
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Pretty impressive temps there.:) Reseated mine a few times but still it runs pretty toasty if stressed. Cooler as above with liquid ultra paste on the cpu ihs.
 
I'm in a similar boat, about to pull the trigger on a 4770k upgrade but can't decide on a cooler. I think I'm stuck between a SB E SE and a H100i.
 
My vcore is at 1.2625 in bios, (1.264 in windows). I had been running with 1.9 vccin, (asus designation for vrin). But i was also running with my memory oc'd, and cache at 42x on 1.25v had a few bsods, (0x124) in games such as the bf4 beta and bf3. Knocked the cache and ram back to stock and just went with the cpu oc which has been fine since
 
Most reviews i've seen say the bigger AIO water coolers are slightly better at cooling, but this can come at the expense of a lot more noise than the big air coolers.
 
A vote here for the H100i. Stays nicely silent on "quiet mode", there is no need to turn the fans to performance or max unless you REALLY want that 3c or 4c difference.

Strangely, one of my fans whines like a bitch on performance, and the second one is completely quiet.. so my fans are running at different speeds atm.'

Keeps my haswell at constant 4.6ghz no problem.
 
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