Quote Originally Posted by Peli View Post
Unless you're planning on going to ridiculous overclock speeds (based on Nikita's experience and comfort level building a PC, I'm doubting this to be the case), you'd probably be fine going with an air-cooled CPU cooler like the Noctua NH-D14 (and that's *STILL* overkill for just about every system). You can use that money to upgrade your videocard.
Seconded. I have the Noctua NH-U12P which is basically half the heatsink that the NH-D14 is and mine sits at 36-38C when doing anything not gaming and 41-43C while 5-boxing. Mine is not overclocked.