Cooling a Carbide Air 240

[eddible]

Hi all,

I wanted to build a decent gaming PC but reuse some components I had spare from other builds. This is what I've ended up with:

Case: Carbide Air 240
Motherboard: Gigabyte Sniper M3 MATX (already owned this)
CPU: i5 2500K (overclocked to 4.5Ghz) (Bought one off ebay for £90)
Cooler: Zalman CNPS8900 (already owned this)
Memory: One stick of 8GB memory (I can't remember the brand, but already owned it)
GPU: Gigabyte Windforce 4GB GTX 960
PSU: Corsair RM1000 (Already owned it)
Storage: 256GB Samsung Evo + 2TB 3.5" Drive (Spare drive I RMA'd a while back)

My next plan is to change the cooler to a AIO water cooler, I was thinking of saving for the Corsair H100i as this seems like a common choice for my case. Does anyone have any opinions on this? I'm particularly intrigued as to whether the water cooler would allow me to clock the 2500K any higher.

Any thoughts (particularly those related to efficient cooling) on my build would be appreciated!

[EndlessWaves]

What sort of temperatures are you seeing current at what voltage? I wouldn't expect much more performance unless you're purely thermal limited (95°C+).

Flogging the 2500k and spending that £90 and the cost of an H100i on an i7-3770k would likely give you at least as much performance.

[eddible]

I've got the voltage set at the default, I've just increased the multiplier - I'm not in front of the machine so I can't remember exactly what the multiplier is set to. Idle it's sitting at about 40, I've not checked what it hits at load, I keep forgetting to check after I've used it!