The specs say 150mm cpu cooler. Is this conservative? I have a Dark Rock Pro 3 cooler that is 162mm tall.
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NOTICE: - Please make sure your motherboard equipped with on-board USB 3.0 socket before purchasing. - CPU Cooler: Not Higher than 150mm - Display Card: Not Longer than 280mm
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Probably noticeable in temperatures. I wouldn't worry though, the stock cooler is surprisingly efficient. Might be a bit louder aswell.
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When you say quieter, I would agree to that, but you need to consider the fan you use, you can use whichever fan you want, the stock cooler is junk, always get an aftermarket cooler unless you're using an i5 or i3 and never plan on pushing your CPU with anything, the 92mm cooler is one of the biggest coolers you're going to fit in this case and you can comfortably game with it if you have a solid gpu
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The manufacturers page has full specs: http://www.thermalright.com/html/products/cpu_cooler/axp-100.html?panel=1 Be aware that the specs don't show the fan on it. Add 15mm for the fan. So far, it has been a great little unit. I used it in this: http://www.tonymacx86.com/members/juanlobo/albums/30th-anniversary-hack/
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The case includes a 120mm on the rear. Has additional slots which include 2 on top (140mm or 120mm), 1 120mm on bottom (seperate from power supply), 1 120mm on front and 2 120mm on the side. I purchased 2 140mm (on accident) so I was forced to place them on the top along with the included fan in the rear. I am running an msi z87-gd65 motherboard with an i5 3.2ghz (aftermarket fan on cpu) processor and a MSI GTX 760-OC and have no cooling problems. cpu on average runs at 30°C. Hope this helps! Great case for the money!
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The stock cooler inst all that bad. If you plan on overclocking I would go for a Hyper 212 evo. Mine stays at around 13-14c while idling with stock cooler though.
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This case has 3 5.25" external drive bays, all of which lock to secure the drive. It does not come with a heatsink, though it does have one case fan in the front. Most CPUs come with a stock heatsink. I haven't bothered with changing my heatsink from my AMD FX series processor, so I don't know what will fit in this case. A fully loaded fan configuration (two 140 mm fans on top, two 120 mm in front, one 120 mm on the back, and one 120 mm on the bottom) keep my modest 15% overclock below 45 Celsius.
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Core i7-3770 has a standard cooling sink come with cpu, around less 2" height. But I brought a large case for my motherboard, usually larger case cooling is better, so you need a larger cooling sink. My is Cooling Master , around 6" height. Never overheat.
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I bought one of this to use on a dual core CPU. It does it's job as expected, throws out lots of air and it very good at reducing several degrees from the CPU. However, if you are planning to purchase a cooler for an Eight Core AMD FX, this is not your fan. For a CPU like yours I recommend you to get a watercooler. I have the same cpu as you and got a coolermaster Seidon for about $60. AMD cpus overheat a lot, so I would stay away from air cooling if I were you
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I recommend getting the Alpine 64 Plus, Alpine 64 Pro, or something better. As long as your case size can fit it. The ARCTIC Alpine 64 GT Rev. 2 CPU Cooler here is tiny in size. It's designed for absolute minimal cooling with small sized PCs that will never be overclocked. It's usually better overall to get the bigger heatsink designs.
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I haven't OCed my rig yet and I don't plan to until I get a decent cooler. From what I've gathered, it doesn't look like the stock cooler can handle an overclocked CPU. So, I suggest you wait until you get your cooler. Plus, this CPU is plenty powerful out of the box.
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Stock cooler is fine. It's noisy, though. It may also depend on your case set up - you might have less air flow in your case and/or maybe running Crossfire or SLI with 2 hot GPUs. I have since bought a Coolermaster Hyper 212 EVO, which is awesome. I have a Coolermaster HAF Tower, so I have good air flow in my case naturally. In any case, I doubt you'll have over-heating issues with the stock fan and heatsink without overclocking it.
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i cant look at it right now, but compare the dimensions. this case is small as fuark so i would be shy of putting any aftermarket in, but even then. you could always cut out a little area to make your cooler fit with a little coming out of the side.
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It is. It comes with a CPU cooler (heatsink+fan) which has a square of thermal compound pre-applied. I used a third party CPU Cooler though (Hyper 212 Evo) with Arctic Silver 5, though.
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If your cooler supports 120mm fans and has a fan bracket, you can use this. It has comparable airflow to a Cooler Master Blade Master or Arctic F12 fan of the same size (about 2 CFM difference) so it should work fine as a CPU heatsink fan.
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no fan is included whatsoever... and the fan that may fit is one of those not so available 50mm (10-15 mm thick). Those may become quite noisy! Considering this case has many vent holes you may want to skip that fan adventure and just settle for a good low profile (43mm high or less) CPU cooler, as most Intel stock coolers a re a few mm too tall for this case and AMD stock coolers are way too tall. another advise: I have not succeeded to run any AMD CPU in this case cool enough... all AMD CPUs (AM2.AM3,FM1, FM2) dissipate much heat, thus requiring a CPU cooler that is too large to fit in this case... and I did try quite a few. I have assembled five computers in an AM350 case, all with socket 755, 1155 and 1150. They all work fine without an added video card (as there is no space for such in this case)
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I got m350. It is nice and solid, but there is no space left for 3.5 inch hard drive. Zotac's MB CPU cooler is too big for this case.