To my opponents...

[A Canadian Cat]

I am having a heat sink problem which is rendering my machine insanely slow and I will be late with my turns for an unknown number of days. I might just get a new machine depending on what my tech guys have to say. I was planning that for early in the new year anyway.

Apologies.

Ian (aka A Canadian Cat)

 

[Artkin]

Heat sink problem...? Huh?
Are your tech guys ripoff artists or what?

 

[Ithikial]

NH-U12S chromax.black

The NH-U12S chromax.black is an all-black version of Noctua’s award-winning NH-U12S premium-quality quiet CPU cooler. Thanks to the same proven slim-tower heatsink design and NF-F12 PWM fan, it stays true to the NH-U12S’s successful formula of fusing excellent cooling performance with superb...

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Can recommend after a few months in my new machine. Keeps my toasty AMD 5900X cool most of the time.

 

[A Canadian Cat]

Thanks. I went with this:

be quiet!

be quiet!

www.bequiet.com

Man these things are big. The pictures for both of them look enormous. It is hard to see how they fit in a case.

I'll share my full specs once it's actually built - still waiting for at least one part to actually arrive in store.

 

[Ithikial]

I was sceptical going from a waterblock AIO 'back' to an air cooler but I'll admit they have come a long way. After months of a mate pushing my in that direction, seeing multiple test sites show some of the high end air coolers out performing AIO's in performance and noise validated the idea and I went for it. It just squeezes into my case. Low end on the price point was waste of time. Now we just need air coolers with RGB lighting.

 

[Lethaface]

When I build my current PC I did some research into water cooling and basically the outcome was that there's no real difference in cooling performance. Although the cooler does indeed barely fit my case (which isn't small). It fits though, which is what counts