Thinking of going for AIO for Ryzen 3700x. Recommendations please

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I have a thermal take core v71 case which can apparently take up to a 420mm rad up top if necessary.

I currently have a noctua dh15 but I'm not overclocking cpu at all so I'm thinking of just going with an AIO, but I'd like the best performing AIO that is equal or better than the noctua to give a little headroom should I change my mind about overclocking or so and overdrive can make the most out of the feature. I can also only use one fan on the noctua because of ram clearance which bums me out a little.

So naturally I'm looking at rads with 3 fans for performance reasons, but I know that fans, pumps, reliability and rad thickness come into it as well.

Any recommendations on products to look at would be greatly received. I'm not averse to changing out some fans if the pump and rad are decent. But last time I had an AIO cooler, a cheapish aftermarket cooler outperformed it by quite a margin so I'm a little dubious of going AIO water-cooling but I do realise times have moved on.

I used to run an i7 980x with a coolit eco ALC 240? I think. I won an alpenfohn brocken to review it was loads better than the swiftech with my i7.

Thanks in advance
 
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Your NH-D15 with a higher speed fan and of course case fans supplying it with cool air will cool as good as any AIO/CLC, and it's much cheaper to get a few fans than AIO/CLC .. also last much longer, never leak, and if fan wears out will still work with any fan held on with rubber bands until new fan is in hand.

NH-D15 and NH-D14 cool the same with same fans. A few years ago we tested NH-D14 and TRUE Spirit 140 Power with TY-143 2500rpm hi-performance fan/s on i7 920 @ 4.3GHz. At 2500rpm they were about 9.3c cooler than at 1200rpm (same air temp into cooler for both tests). 1x vs 2x fan were only 1.65-2.55c cooler depending on speed. What this all means is if you put a 2500rpm fan on your D15 and increased case airflow to match so when cooler fan is at 2500rpm and moving something like 133cfm instead of at 1500rpm moving 90cfm your case is also moving an additional 43cfm or more so cooler doesn't have to re-use it's own heated air and run hotter .. because every degree warmer air is into cooler under load is a degree hotter CPU is. ;)

In case you don't know, I detest CLCs, and while AIOs with threaded fittings, copper radiators and fill port are better they are still the cheapest/lowerst quality component systems on the market costing much more and no better cooling than top tier air (like your NH-D15) with hi-performance cooler and case fans
 
I have an Swiftech AIO and also a D15 but if you're dead set on a CLC then I would check out the Kraken X62. I'm a bit of a silence freak and the X62 is the quietest best performing CLC I've come across. Also has nice RGB if that's your thing. ;)
 
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