Which cooler?

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Thanks for all of your advice, much to read up on. I've got a Noctua in my present rig, soon to be my partners, and the ones I suggested had fairly good write ups. Certainly I've found the one I've got to be pretty good and quiet. I'll take any suggestions about the ram though as I thought it was rather tall...
 
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Thanks zenf, the reviews I've read agree with that. I can't think why some are suggesting additional case fans when that wasn't really my question. Perhaps I didn't make it clear enough that I was referring to CPU coolers...
 
I quickly realised that the first cooler I posted isn't suitable and I'll probably go for either the NH-U12S or the NH-U14S. I haven't made any plans to OC, that's why I didn't mention it, and my days of building water cooled rigs are far gone now. I'll probably go for the Avexir Core memory modules too so thanks for the suggestion. As I stated if I wanted advice on case fans then I would have asked and I believe I understand all about negative and positive air pressure inside a case. My present system rums ok temps with it's current case so I think I'll be fine with my choice...
 
No I will take any suggestion as long as it is something I do need as apposed to something I do not. What fans would you recommend and would that cooler block the first gfx card socket on my motherboard?
 
I also prefer my fans to blow out the rear of the case, not suck hot air up over the gfx card so is the orientation front to back with the fans?
 
Hi, sorry Zenf, I meant to say can the Prolimatech be fitted with front to rear fans and will it still clear my first gfx card slot with a AMD 7900 series card?
 
Thanks for that, it does look like it'll fit ok, but then, with the cost of fans on top of the cost of the heatsink, it surely becomes more expensive than the coolers I was looking at...
 
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Having put my system together now using the Dark Rock 3 Plus cooler I can say it is as quiet as the my old rig which used the Noctua NH-C12P SE14 CPU Cooler. The Dark Rock was one of the easiest CPU heatsinks to fit, I had to do this before I mounted the motherboard as the Lian-Li case I've got doesn't have a removable tray. The memory sticks were a bit of a faff to get into position but not terribly difficult and the gfx card does, just, clear the heatsink. At the moment it is running at 20c at idle, so that is lower than my original setup, but I yet to do some load tests to see if the system is stable but so far so good.
With the 250gb SSD I'd fitted the bootup is incredibly fast and impressive.

Cheers all for your input and help, especially to you zenf...
 
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