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need some new cooling

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hey all, winter is coming up so im gunna have some time to tweak my rig so im looking for some outside of stock cooling :D
for the cpu hsf, i was looking at the thermalright si-120 or the xp-90. i believe that the cooling difference isnt much if they have a fan with the same cfm rate but im also looking for a quiet cooler. basically, will a 92mm quiet fan + xp90 be able to compare with a 120mm quiet fan + an si-120?
next up is the vga cooler. i have an ASUS GTX and I have it overclocked to 500/1390 but that only raised the temps about to abot 52/53 in comparison to the 50/51 at stock speeds. what surprises me is that my friends GTX runs at about 40C and i've seen other GTX's run around that temperature too. why is mine idling around 52C? is the stock ASUS cooler crappy is did i just get a bad card? basically, i was thinking of replacing the cooler with either a zalman fatal1ty (to match the red scheme for my case) or an NV silencer but i'm not sure which is better for price/performance/dba level
thanks all :D
 
SI-120 with quiet 120mm fan > XP-90 with quiet 92mm fan.

Don't get the Fata1ity coolers, please. They're just a waste of money, and they're pretty darn loud.
 
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