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cpu cooler for 2500k-air or water?

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Check out this thread for some ideas.
 

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oh buddy,great thread,thankyou !! checkn out now,

CHEERS ALL FOR YOUR GRACIOUS HELP HERE!!
 

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cool tig i will get it!! im lovin ro2 but it also drives me mad too,lol!![in a good way of course]

ps,i ordered the antec kuhler h2o 620,hope i made right decision,aaah,i will post a pic when it gets here,and give you guys the low down on what i think of it,why not? eta tomorrow i think,cant wait,love new toys!! then i can start oc ,cant without it.

ps,to all here-GREAT COMMUNITY!!! THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING SO HELPFUL TO ME,

kind regs from me in aus.
 

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hey i got the antec water-cooler in ,it is working great,cpu sitting on 28c+/- 2c,
used asus auto tune ai=cpu-4738mhz,gpu-1450-mhz,[is that any good?]

heres a pic anyhow,as i said i would,it was a real iq test to install,lol,the instructions were hopeless but i nutted it out using common sense and logic,

runs without much noise and seems quite stable,if anyone wants to help me oc from bios manually,that would be grand!! never done it b4 so,

thanx for your interest and ideas/support,the antec seems like quite a good unit,time will tell!!!

its not that loud anyhow and kills stock intel cooler.and it fits,yahooo,

heres pics anyway folks,cheers from me too as always!:toast::toast:
 

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Your card is a tight fit against that psu, if your card was a tad longer it would not have gone in.

I will get one of these cooler types in a couple of weeks.

Nice oc on your gfx card too, i'm assuming that's a memory clock?
 

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Your card is a tight fit against that psu, if your card was a tad longer it would not have gone in.

I will get one of these cooler types in a couple of weeks.

Nice oc on your gfx card too, i'm assuming that's a memory clock?

i think it is,im just learning about overclocking tig,thats why i did it with the asus auto tune etc,i got a fair idea how to do it in bios,but havent got round to experimenting yet,

i went one round further from there,but hit a blank screen,looks like it wont go much over that,the next level was a shade under 5 gig lol,phew,thankfully asus has inbuilt protection!!!!!

i reckon far as i can tell,that wasnt a bad effort with the gear i have,
if i chucked nother fan onto radiator,may go further,

anyway,the antec seems like good gear,its a small case,and to get it to there must mean its ok as is,the gpu was outrageous!!! the psu wouldnt fit the right way round anyway,so i did some home surgery on the case,and just got there!!!! its tricky getn gpu in and out tho,have to be real careful,lol.

cant wait to get some perspex and aluminium to make my own case,that will be fun and a challenge,

hey i did ro2 online last night,was great fun,hope u get it,want to create a team !
kind regs frm me.
 
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