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I guess case limitations are going to be the main decision factor when deciding on a cooler. You can't really overclock with an L9i from what I've read so any overclocking in a low-profile build will have to be done with watercooling. I've been favoring the Noctua nh-l12s because it offers some overclocking headroom, particularly in well ventilated cases, but most SFF cases don't support the necessary 70mm clearance.From what I've read most of the teething issues have been worked out with the latest iteration of Ryzen, so it's mostly a matter of workload, where Ryzen generally performs better for more multi-threaded tasks while tasks that benefit more from clock speed than parallelization will be better with Intel's offerings, though reading reviews and such suggests that even heavily parallelized tasks may still benefit more from clock speed than core/thread count.I've also been seeing 1080ti cards for sale on Newegg and Amazon for less than $700, so if you shop around depending on what you want out of it you might be able to pick one up for about $650.
I guess case limitations are going to be the main decision factor when deciding on a cooler. You can't really overclock with an L9i from what I've read so any overclocking in a low-profile build will have to be done with watercooling. I've been favoring the Noctua nh-l12s because it offers some overclocking headroom, particularly in well ventilated cases, but most SFF cases don't support the necessary 70mm clearance.
From what I've read most of the teething issues have been worked out with the latest iteration of Ryzen, so it's mostly a matter of workload, where Ryzen generally performs better for more multi-threaded tasks while tasks that benefit more from clock speed than parallelization will be better with Intel's offerings, though reading reviews and such suggests that even heavily parallelized tasks may still benefit more from clock speed than core/thread count.
I've also been seeing 1080ti cards for sale on Newegg and Amazon for less than $700, so if you shop around depending on what you want out of it you might be able to pick one up for about $650.
