Best sub £35 cooler for 4770k

Apache14

Apache14

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Hello all,

I have just upgraded to a 4770k this weekend and am running on the stock cooler, and am hitting 45-50c at idle (not unusual looking after a little Googleing)

So I am on the market for a good aftermarket cooler (I'm not intending to overclock this until after summer). It needs to be under £35 as over that i might as well get a H55 AIO solution

Any thoughts ?

P.S i'm really not impressed by Intel's stock cooler .... the AMD ones with the hex core CPU's have a much better (if not a little loud) cooler with copper contact plate and heat-pipes >.<
 
you want the best you can afford regarding haswell cooling,i dunno if £35 would cut it

the k2 mount doom is top end air cooler
 
If you could up the budget the k2 is a good cooler. Will still work out cheaper and cool the same as an all in one solution. Also there's no problems to look out for as little can go wrong with an air cooler.
 
It would have been nice if TRUE Spirit 140 Power was widely available as well. The original Rev.A is perfectly capable cooler as well, but the Power is just a small bit more expensive and is with nickel coated pipes and 8mm instead of 6mm pipes.
 
Disappointed no one has asked what case and RAM you have to make sure these things will fit.
 
Woops ;)

Case is a cooler master haf 912+

Should learn to check after copy & paste

Image for reference

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Excuse the messy cables it was put together in a rush (the case isn't amazing for cable management either)
 
Thermalright TRUE Spirit 140 is the logical choice then. You will have no RAM clearance problems and high end performance for under £40.
 
doyll said:
TRUE Spirit 140 Power is even a little better
Here's a review of TRUE Spirit 140 Power and TRUE Spirit 140. Notice how close to NH-D14 their performance is.
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I really like the look of the TRUE Spirit 140 (and even more so the Power version) however I cant seem to find either in stock :(
 
Apache14 said:
I really like the look of the TRUE Spirit 140 (and even more so the Power version) however I cant seem to find either in stock :(
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Call, ask and preferably try to reserve one for yourself. It is a very good cooler that is more than competitively priced so the demand is more than the supply.
 
Like Stuen4y, get one reserved so when they do arrive you get one. It performs as well as most anything out there right now costing up to and more than twice as much. Put a TY-143 on TRUE Spirit 140 Power and it's even better. :D
 
doyll said:
Put a TY-143 on TRUE Spirit 140 Power and it's even better. :D
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I think the two fan route is a lot better than one very high speed. I have two Scythe AP-31s and they did not bring the temperatures down enough compared to two TY-140s to make it worth putting them when benching with an Ivy i5. When you have a 2011 or AMD CPU, yes, maybe it will make a couple of degrees difference but generally all the new coolers are optimised for low speed high pressure fan operation.
 
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