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Need help Overclocking High End Gaming PC without Watercooling

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wait your asking for help overclocking a rig you dont even have?? buy the rig then get back to me
 

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noctua are the most expensive and best fans around :toast:

the stock one should be good enough

Yeah i know but i really want all the fans with blue leds. Im gonna replace the 3 orignal fans of the NZXT Guardian (Front, Rear and Side) with the blue LED ones from Zalman. Also im gonna add 2 extra blue LED Zalman inside the tower for more air circulation and connect them to the NZXT Sentry Fan Controller.

My question is if i change the stock fans on the Noctua Processor Cooler and the stock fans on the Corsair Memory Cooler for Zalman blue LED ones will i loose cooling? I know the Zalman blue LED fans are very quiet even at high RPMs.
 
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Not a big fan of watercooling also...water near high priced hardware doesnt really inspire confidence in me...all it takes is a single drop of water and kaboom bye bye hardware...

Thanks for responding. I totally understand. I was just thinking that the ultimate rig really would be awesome with the ultimate cooling solution.

Running a computer 24/7, he is probably one of the user's that litterally dosnt want to super maintain there rig 24/7.

He could not shut his computer off for weeks at a time, and pumps and water cooling, needs to be maintained like another automobile in your garage.

He just wants the computer to run nicely without a costly, maybe semi dangerous solution to great cooling.

There's the positive's, and theres the negative's.
It depends on his situation.

I think its very possible to get a 4.5Ghz overclock on air.

Uh, thanks, but the person (OP) I had asked the question had already answered it. LOL. And I'm sorry but water cooling doesn't require constant maintenance and isn't really expensive (especially compared to what the OP is spending on hardware). And "Semi-Dangerous" is debatable. Of course, that's my opinion.
 

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Thanks for responding. I totally understand. I was just thinking that the ultimate rig really would be awesome with the ultimate cooling solution.

I tottaly agree but i am really "afraid" of watercooling 6k worth of hardware...well not really 6k if you take out the peripherals...

Anyway since you mentioned it, what would be the best Water Cooling gear for this rig? Name all the pieces you would use to fully (CPU, GPU, MEMORY, HDD, CHIPSET, etc) water cool this rig...Name the best of the best water cooling parts...
 
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If you decide to go water cooled I can show you how to "accident proof" it for your peace of mind. ;)
 
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Thats exactly what i want...i really want to achieve a steady 4.5 Ghz overclock on air without it being to dangerous or too hot or to noisy.

And yes my computer is on like 95% days per year.
Then H70 is for you. Can be silent and can still be cool without the dangers of leaks
 

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Ok im thinking about buying a total of 11 Blue LED Fans.

2 x 60mm to replace the ones on the memory cooler

5 x 120mm to replace the originals of the NZXT Guardian 921 and add 2 extra fans inside the case

4 x 140mm to replace the Power Supply fan and replace the Noctua fans and also adding a third fan on the Noctua.

How about that?

Do i get enough airflow and cooling with 11 Zalman low noise fans with Blue LEDs?
 

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I dunno abt this one but how about tec cooling? the cooling gets to the prossesor and the heat produced is on the tec and absorbed by the heatsink, suck as the monsoonII tec cooler but iam not aware of the benchmarks, costs around $100
 
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