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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
School me on cooling systems.
I had one in my priced out list, until photon recommended the intel combo.
He's usually a pretty particular guy, so I noticed that he didn't suggest a separate cooling unit of his own. The cooling unit I picked out I assumed was specific to my chipset, am I to think that cooling units that are more than the average heatsink and fan are useless/not worth it for the average computer assembly?
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Yeah I'm picky about noise for sure. I didn't change it as it was a Noctuna and they usually are very good, I didn't notice that one was for AMD only. Whatever comparable Noctuna for Intel would probably be ok, or if they don't have one the Scythe Mugen 3 is a good budget one:
http://ncix.com/products/?sku=65872&...facture=Scythe
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/coo...e-mugen-3.html
Or you can browse their reviews to find a decent one:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/coolers
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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Do I need several chips, double video card and all an around computer hardware mega-boner to take advantage of some wicked-awesome cooling infrastructure?
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Not really, I've heard that the stock Intel retail heatsink isn't that bad, especially if you aren't overclocking.
Video cards on the other hand are horrible IMO, I usually go through tons of reviews and even a few products before I settle on one, or I just throw away the stock cooler and get an aftermarket one. But noise here is usually only an issue under load (games); most are pretty quiet when just doing regular stuff.