Is it good if I don't use water cooling ?
1743983
Yes with all the fans and the extra space provides really good air flow. Plus you can regulate fan speed as needed. For optimal air flow, I recommend repositioning the two forward LED fans to the front instead of the side.
1743984
Its good and strong. But so big and heavy. if you choose some big mother board with multiple cards. you can do this. otherwise you need a smaller one to save space.
1743985
The fans are very sufficient and quiet enough. No need for water cooling. Unless you live in a tropical country and you are overclocking your machine.
1743986
If you're gonna use lots of HDDs like I do then the air would be blocked by them. There is only 2 in-take fans 120mm.
1743987
its amazing. I don't have a water cooling system and it rarely gets warm. (I keep it on lowest fan setting for noise and game pretty hard on highest settings, when it rarely does I turn the fans up and its cool again within a minute)
1232143
This is an inexpensive card for this type of component. Fans are better generally, but they get dusty, are cheap and tend to fail. A heat sink is what it is. It could be limited in performance in the summer if the computer is in a place that gets warm. So as usual, you pick for your situation and usage.
1639092
No forget any type of water cooling unless you want to mod the case and run it from the outside.
1863210
The bundled fan and heatsink (and thermal paste) are pretty much the bare minimum necessary to get by for "average" computing. It works, but it does not keep the CPU very cool under demanding CPU loads. In fact, I think the CPU runs hotter than necessary even when idling using Intel's bundled fan and heatsink. Good third party fans and heatsinks aren't that expensive and do a significantly better job of keeping the CPU cool. If you're using the computer for "average" uses for a few hours a day and turn it off (or put it to sleep) when finished, you can get away with the stock cooler. If you use the computer for extended periods, for heavy CPU loads (not just games), or you want to overclock the CPU the stock cooler and thermal paste aren't good enough. If you're spending $300 or more on a CPU, spending $30 to $40 on a good cooler is money well spent to ensure the long life of your investment. Don't forget to pick up some really good thermal paste (Arctic Silver) as well. This is the stuff that actively transfers the heat from the CPU to the heatsink, so you'll need the good stuff to ensure maximum heat transfer and heat dissipation and it doesn't cost that much.
2087879
I think if you can dissipate heat without a problem as long as the pc has good internal ventilation also dissipate the heat produced by the processor, that is a good case ventilation.But not if the socket is suitable because it must have an adapter.
2267444
yes, i had it above 4.0 even without liquid cooling, i don't recommended that of course, my case has 7 fans and the air coming out is very hot; but the point is, it is still stable.
1275287
Its an alright choice. I have a custom water cooling set up in mine. Hold a 360 rad just fine though you lose the top 5.5 slot.
1870622
It depends on how you are going to use your pc. If it's just a simple built for office and home use. Yes it ok. But if your going for gaming and planning to OC. Go for a water cooled one. Enjoy your build. Www.twitch.tv/jbgabrie
85895
Most all-in-one coolers are better than low-mid range air cooling. With that comparison if you can afford the Seidon I'd recommend it, but there is nothing wrong with the EVO 212 either.Unless your current CPU is being throttled by heat this cooler won't help on it's own to increase performance. With better cooling you should be able to overclock (advanced) which could potentially help.Make sure that your CPU is even the part that is holding SC2 back. You might be better off investing in a better GPU than a cooler for your CPU if your CPU isn't experiencing heavy load during gameplay. Most all-in-one coolers are better than low-mid range air cooling. With that comparison if you can afford the Seidon I'd recommend it, but there is nothing wrong with the EVO 212 either.Unless your current CPU is being throttled by heat this cooler won't help on it's own to increase performance. With better cooling you should be able to overclock (advanced) which could potentially help.Make sure that your CPU is even the part that is holding SC2 back. You might be better off investing in a better GPU than a cooler for your CPU if your CPU isn't experiencing heavy... » Read More Most all-in-one coolers are better than low-mid range air cooling. With that comparison if you can afford the Seidon I'd recommend it, but there is nothing wrong with the EVO 212 either.Unless your current CPU is being throttled by heat this cooler won't help on it's own to increase performance. With better cooling you should be able to overclock (advanced) which could potentially help.Make sure that your CPU is even the part that is holding SC2 back. You might be better off investing in a better GPU than a cooler for your CPU if your CPU isn't experiencing heavy load during gameplay. « Show Less
1949742
I actually had mine in a pretty small, mini-itx build. It stayed reasonably cool during most day-to-day operations with the stock fan, between 35C and 50C--and that's without any other case fans. As long as you aren't doing anything too CPU-intensive, I'd consider the stock fan pretty adequate. Good luck with you build
1141440
Yes! Be sure to use cpu thermal heatsink grease! "Caution" when using a lower grade cooler failure is at a higher risk!
937449
nooooo way, the standard cooling barley covers the cpu without overclocking. And remeber, when you start changing your processor's settings you invalidating the warritny. The fans they provide really arent engineered to maintain that sort of heat. However, you can purchase a nice cheap cooler master aftermarket fan like i did. It cost me 15 bucks and is actually better than watercooling which can be coslty to obtain and costly to clean up if you screw it up
1311530
Hi there, Yes Sir, no problem at all. Alot of people will tell you that this processor is a beast of a CPU (true), but also that beadt will run smoothly with any liquid cooler (open or closed loop) in case of normal clocking. However, if you would like to unleash the full capacity of the beast then you should need a beast of a cooler to cool ot down. I hope i was useful. Regards, Ahmed E
68485
Yes, in short. Wringing it out fully will help if you don't want that, but the evaporative cooling works pretty well.
1793376
yes, but for that you will need to get a hydro copper heat sink because water cooling is the only way you can overclock it hard enough to get that high of a fps. if you cool with liquid nitrogen you might be able to get 30fps.
1615672
In my experience, the heatsink gets too hot to touch, so I would be wary of improper airflow.
1078461
I currently use this on an AMD a10-5700 and have not had any problems with keeping it cool. I use it as a media PC so it runs 24/7.