I have not bought a proper air cooler in quite some time, the last one I dealt with that was of high end quality was a phanteks dual tower cooler for a college build in 2012.
Before christmas I will be tearing out all the water cooling in my main rig in favor of air cooling. I want a cooler that is big enough to run passively in the event I have a failed fan or fans (large single tower or dual towers welcome, one that looks good. Preferably black but we will see. and also looking for ease of installation. Price I am shooting for is under $100. I will consider Noctua if it has the black fans, my god those tan and brown fans are ugly. I am also slightly computer OCD so same size fans on a dual tower cooler would be preferred but if the performance is better for a cooler with asymmetrical fans I can probably deal with it.
GPU cooling will be handled by an arctic cooling twin turbo II vga cooler.
EDIT: I am NOT looking for closed loop coolers, all in one coolers, or any sort of pre filled loops of any kind.
Before christmas I will be tearing out all the water cooling in my main rig in favor of air cooling. I want a cooler that is big enough to run passively in the event I have a failed fan or fans (large single tower or dual towers welcome, one that looks good. Preferably black but we will see. and also looking for ease of installation. Price I am shooting for is under $100. I will consider Noctua if it has the black fans, my god those tan and brown fans are ugly. I am also slightly computer OCD so same size fans on a dual tower cooler would be preferred but if the performance is better for a cooler with asymmetrical fans I can probably deal with it.
GPU cooling will be handled by an arctic cooling twin turbo II vga cooler.
EDIT: I am NOT looking for closed loop coolers, all in one coolers, or any sort of pre filled loops of any kind.