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xehr said:
This is a good tip and something I noticed reading around last night.

Apparently with the heatpipes the MSI GTX970 is too high to fit in the Air 240 but the EVGA/Gigabyte models fit fine.

I've decided to go with the Gigabyte after reading some comparisons.

On the PSU: I will go with 650W I think just for some headroom, have never had a problem with corsair so am thinking of the RM 650W Gold+?

Lee: Interesting, why do you suggest the BX100 over the MX200? I read that the MX200 is an upgrade on the BX100 in terms of speed and it seems the price is quite similar.
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If you can get the MX200 for the same price then go with it. I am just going off OCUK prices as the BX100 is currently £20 cheaper.


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1 x Crucial MX200 250GB 2.5" SSD SATA 6Gbps 7mm Solid State Drive ( CT250MX200SSD1) £89.99
1 x Crucial BX100 250GB SSD SATA 6Gbps 7mm Solid State Drive (CT250BX100SSD1) £69.95
Total : £159.94 (includes shipping : Ex.VAT).

 
Thanks Lee. The MX200 is Please Read The Forum Rules Regarding Competitors, so will go for that.

Can anyone recommend a good cooling setup to go with the Air 240 case?

I don't think I'll need any Liquid AIO/water cooling since I don't plan on heavy OCing so will likely just go for a good fan setup? Or should I be considering water cooling these days?

The case comes with 3 x 120mm stock fans with space for 9(!) fans.
 
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If you don't want to overclock the cpu higher than 4.2, you could stick with one of the following air coolers:
BeQuiet Dark Rock Pro 3
Prolimatech Megahalems Black + 1-2 EK-Vardar fan 1850 rpm

But these are expensive for air coolers so you might as well go for Corsair H100i AIO.
If you have any unused fan slots, make sure to occupy them all.
Corsair Air 240 have good airflow, but it is a fairly small case.

About GPU's: Either EVGA or Zotac. Those 2 would be my choice, and they won't give you any issues with being to long (maybe except Zotac AMP! edition).

Also, whz not use the M2 slot on this board to free one SATA and have less cables inside?
If the motherboard have useful features, use them. That's my opinion.
 
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Interesting point on the M.2 slot, had not really considered it until now..

The MX200 has a M.2 version for basically the same price as the SATA, so maybe it's worth switching to that?

What are the main advantages of M.2? I read they have a higher cap on transfer speeds but it looks like 6GB/s is standard maximum for SATA and that's miles above the speeds being quoted for the MX200 (~500 MB/s)

I guess it's one less cable cluttering things up at least!
 
I hear some of the M2 disks can use ram to speed up data transfer etc. Results are really impressive. I have seen someone have m2 disk like this in their project log, you might want to check that forum section :)
 
Megahalems is 158.5 and should fit perfectly.
And in my opinion it is a best air cooler out there.
I had it cooling my 4770K at 4.4 with temps hiting max 65 C during long gaming sessions, which is very well imho.
I had 2 slow fans in push pull (Enermax T.B. Silence 120mm 950 rpm).
 
I don't know how Skylake acts on air and under water.
From what I have seen on delidding pictures, the silicion is slightly better so maybe you will get better temps on air than you could get with Haswell.
Up to you.
Either high end air or AIO.
 
That's not what I meant.
Haswell hadhorrible amounts of horrible silicon, almost like tar.
Skylake seems to have better silicon and smaller amounts.
So it may have better temps on higherclocks, that is what I meant.
 
Plan was to go with the Noctua NH-D9L cooler in the Air 240.

Was looking at a build somewhere else and looks like a nice fit.
 
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