Good luck cooling overclocked i7 6700 with 20e cooler.

​Clearly you have never heard of enthusiast or overclocking. Sone people just want to have nice rigs or perhaps overclock their CPU's. Is that so bad because this cooler doesnt appeal to you or is too expensive?

I just bought a used corsair h115i for £90 on eBay, would have got this instead. heat

Slightly ot
What's with rgb on everything these days? Surely it adds cost, and even if you have a glass side panel, do you really want to look at your case all the time? I love my pc and spent loads of time and thought picking each part but I don't really care what they look like as long as they perform. I just honestly don't get the rgb craze and don't think it'll last - could be wrong though

would rather put the money towards a better cpu unless you already have the top end one but still cant bring my self to pay this much for a cooler

Good luck cooling overclocked i7 6700 with 20e cooler.

​Clearly you have never heard of enthusiast or overclocking. Sone people just want to have nice rigs or perhaps overclock their CPU's. Is that so bad because this cooler doesnt appeal to you or is too expensive?

No luck needed, it'll work just fine.

I couldn't see anyone testing with the 6700K yet, but look at Techpowerup's test of the H9i on the 4770k for example:
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/CRYORIG/M9i/6.html

Overclocked to 4.2Ghz and 1.2V it was a good 20°C off maximum temperature in a typical full load and didn't even throttle under artificial stress tests.

Spending the extra £100 on this sort of cooler might get you an extra couple of hundred megahertz but no noticeable difference.


Feeling a bit guilty? I said nothing about buying this sort of thing being bad. Of course it's not bad, no more than spending money on any other hobby.

I'm just saying that it's now a hobbyist market where stuff is bought because it's interesting, instead of the situation a decade or two ago where components were primarily bought because they provided a noticeable improvement to your everyday computer experience.

I remember the last time lightshows were popular, with acyclic cases and cold cathode tubes. Back then it was a far smaller proportion of the desktop market.

if your looking at cooling on its own i find the evo hyper great pricewise i56600k running at 4.6 at a max 68 degrees

Like most things it depends on your setup. If you've got a tiny case and a very warm GPU (like I have) you'll have more luck with a AIO watercooling setup like this, since you push all the heat from your CPU directly out of your case instead of recirculating it.

Aesthetics. It's like asking why you would bother with leather interiors on a car, when clearly you're going to regret that decision when the weather gets decidedly warm.

My 6700k is o/c to 4.5 ghz ( not really tried higher) and the most I get temp wise all day playing bf1 is 75 degrees using an Arctic Freezer 13, cost about £20 when I got it.
It does help though that I have a large Fractal R4 case to help with airflow though.
I was tempted with this sort of cooling and maybe next time I will. Heat added though as this is a good deal for those that want water cooling.

​There's many reasons why someone would go with an aio over standard air. Even in the link you provided, the air cooler performed really well but under load the AIOs were about 10 degrees colder under load, which is a huge difference
Aesthetics is another one, even disregarding the rgb the AIO provides (personally) a cleaner looking build.
(btw I have a 212 evo)

I'm changing my bequiet fan for this. I got mime from Amazon at 119.99. They say they don't have stock and it's due feb in but I got mine the following day :-)

75 degrees while playing BF1 the game that is not really cpu demanding. Here I am sitting on my noctua playing bf1 with temps around 60 and thinking that seems high. Cant even imagine the noise and heat that Arctic cooler is making when cpu runs at 100%. Jet engine like?

BF1 is very cpu intensive and lots of people are struggling with that on the forums. It doesn't make my 6700k 100% but certainly makes it work and that's why I chose the r4 case, it's all very quiet with the right fan settings to be honest.
As for heat like I say it's 75 degrees max which is nothing really.

Damn, only just moved onto a h100i v2 over the weekend for around the same price!

Lighting isn't anything new, it's just the in thing atm, I bought a strix card and it is nice to have it change colour based on heat, I wouldn't spend a ridiculous amount on lighting but it can be nice to tie in your components at a marginal cost.

I like the NZXT coolers - I have 2 of the smaller, older setups and they seem to be well made. I find the CAM software very useful as it not only monitors the system but also implements basic overclocking. This minimizes the amount of software that I run and that appeals.

Good price, I would point out that its available on Amazon prime for £1 more (once you factor delivery in)

Release the kraken , oh wrong room my bad :smirk:

good price i think I paid 140 or so for mine

Unless you are a serious (or wanna be serious) overclocker these units are completely overkill.