It's very low profile, and I had a pair of Gigabyte motherboards with the ferrite chokes inside the "CPU keep out area" specified by Intel. So I can highly recommend their parts, and I think you can definitely find a good option and keep it under the Cryorig C7 would be a good fit if you're using the ASrock board you linked in your intel build thread. $20 is a hard price to beat and the performance is excellent ( Review at TechPowerUp here they test with an i7-4770k so their temps are going to report higher than what you'll see with your CPU). I also had a Cryorig C7 in a system for a while and it was excellent as long as the motherboard was designed properly.īut! That said, I also think that either of those would be huge overkill for an i3-4160, so I would suggest you consider something even less expensive, like the Cryorig M9i. Personally I prefer it to the CM 212, but I think that's mostly due to the white fan on it. I used one for over a year in that case cooling an i5-6600k and i7-6700k and its performance was excellent. Also available for roughly the same price (from CRYOSTORE on Newegg's marketplace, other sellers will try to price gouge). Similar design, but slightly shorter than the 212. While looking for alternatives I found Cryorig: A year or two back I built a system in a Carbide 88R and discovered the 212 wouldn't fit (it was about 1cm too tall). Like, why bother looking for something else. It's sort of the go-to inexpensive heatsink with excellent cooling capability. If it fits in the Node 804, I would start with Cooler Master's Hyper 212 EVO, typically available for $30-$35 at most shops (NCIXUS currently has it for $30).
why spend another 20% of the original price when you don't have to? A $110 watercooling setup is neat but if the whole system cost was kept under $500 at the time. Neither was very expensive, but sadly I don't think either are easily found anymore for a reasonable price. The Xigmatek Janus is also excellent, used that in a Silverstone Sugo 05 with a 4570k and later a 4790k and it was great there. But I also had 2x 80mm exhaust fans which helped get the hot air out of the case quickly. I think I had settled on an i3-4370 for a while before switching it out for an i5-4590S. That particular system I tried a wide range of CPUs with the heatsink, from i3-4130T up to i5-4670k - and it handled them all pretty well. I cooled some Haswell CPUs in an Antec ISK 300 with a small Xigmatek Praeton heatsink/fan for a while.
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