Yeah I was just noticing you said mhz instead of ghz. I think you will get good cooling from both coolers, and reaching 4.8 is more dependent on the CPU itself. The NH-D14 is slightly hotter but only slightly though, so it comes down to personal preference I think. but a air cooler is more reliable since it doesnt have a pump.
The noctua is great. Have it on my [email protected] with 1.44v and it wont break 68c in aida64. Excellent cooler and its dead silent. And customer support is AMAZING. Probably the best I've ever had. So yeah, that one hands down in my book.
From what I know, the Noctua will be quieter, and In general a better value. I have one, very good cooler. Although, I must admit, it looks bulky and the fans look ugly. I have to agree with the drugs on customer service. They will send you the bracket you need at no extra cost.
The H220 will cool better, but it is more expensive. It will give you a cleaner look in your build. Because you can expand it, you can also cool your GPU also. For your targeted overclock, i would go with the H220 because at that point, every degree Fahrenheit counts.
All depends on the chip - good one you could get away with a lower tier cooler. Average - bad chip - either of those coolers will be fine (maybe look into the new D15).
If you go with the swiftech design see if you can grab the CM Glacer 240L, same unit just different box and stickers, but may be cheaper.
I've got a Noctua NH-D14 and I can vouch for the excellence of Noctua's products. You pay a lot for them, but they're worth every cent. I personally find liquid cooling (especially the AIO variety) to be too noisy so I tend to avoid them. You also don't need to have so many points of failure. If an after-market heatsink's fan breaks you simply replace it with a new fan. If you're willing to take a risk and your budget is a bit tight, I highly recommend giving ARCTIC's products a serious look too. They are very good value for money, but be warned, you do get some bad parts that are noisy and not silent as advertised.
+1 noctua. I have noctua fans on another cooler and it works amazing and is freaking silent. My i5-3570k @ 4.4GHz never goes above 56 degrees. I had it at 4.6GHz for a while and it never went over 60 degrees.
If your interested in Water-cooling just save another $80 bucks and buy this starter kit that way you can expand and repair single components instead of the whole unit. Once you go water you'll want to do more with it and starting with an expandable system is the best choice these came out recently and I will be purchasing one to replace my H920 with the idea to add a gpu block and 360 rad in the near future. The noctua may be quiet but your gpu is probably not so thats where watercooling wins imho.
Not sure is your US/Can but here's a link to purchase. They also make units in the $170 range that use a bay rez which is only about $40 more than your budget I didnt pick this one because i have an air540 case. Anyone chime in if you think im leading him/her in the wrong direction.
IMO, AIO coolers aren't really that great. I used to run a NZXT Kraken on my 8350. It performed great, but really not THAT great. I was able to run a 4.7ghz OC @ 1.44v, 50C core temp. However, my brother's AIO decided to commit suicide this past winter and pissed all over his MOBO and GPU in the process. So this scared me. I went to the Noctua NH-U14s. Now I run 4.6ghz @ 1.4v with max temps of 50C. I'm willing to lose 100mhz and not have to worry about poor AIO construction. I would honestly only go with water cooling with a custom loop. The starter kits look like the way to go.