I have the 13600k and deepcool ak620 in a matx case. It depends on the ambient temp of your room but for almost all cases, I’d say AIO is more than enough. Overkill even

Yes, i cool my overclocked 14600k with a cheap, old 240mm corsair AIO. I replaced the radiator fans with high-speed Arctic 12 max fans, though.

I don’t understand why you need an AIO for an i5. I am using a 10900k with a Noctua D15 stock and it’s running perfectly fine. An air cooler like Noctua U14s, U12A or D15 is more than enough for stock settings. You may need though a contact frame.

I cool my 13700K with a 240mm AIO. However that’s strictly for gaming. No rendering or video editing. That’s where you really start to see higher temps. So depends how taxing the video editing you’re doing is?

You could make good arguments either way but X240 snow has great reviews. I have used three of those in builds you’re getting two for one at $54 with free shipping. You are using natural ventilation do not only cool your CPU blow that hot air right out of the top of your computer that heat from the CPU is being bone directly back into the case you may have a pointed at your exhaust fan, but there is still here that would not otherwise be there

In my humble opinion

And I understand the air answer may be good for 10 or 12 years, but for me personally getting the next best thing every other year, so it really doesn’t matter may not be the right answer for everyone but it’s the right answer for me

Just get a Thermalright Peerless Assassin, my guy. It’s the same cooling performance for, like, $30.

It depends on the AIO. I’m cooling my 13600kf with an air cooler and it does a great job!

I have a 13600k w/ 240 aio ek basic + 2x NF-A12x25 in a Dan a4 h20 sff.

It’s enough at stock. It’s better with a 100-200mV undervolt.

Fans generally stay quiet, this is paired with a 4090 FE. Gaming fans spin up on the odd occasion but varies what game. I use davinci for small projects and encode on the cpu, fans will go to max.

In the 240 mm are use the X240snow. And in my 14 900 KM I use the LT 720 360. It does time the beast 14900 you can do a little bit of overclocking, but you can’t lean on it all the way

As far as the 13 600 Are used it for my 13 700 KF with a 7900xtx and it kept it cold enough to be in the top 1%. Of all and all in time spy Time Spy. I did not mess with voltage but I did turn the bus up to 102.75% but with everything on auto did get more juice lol. Z790 aero

Deep cool lt720 x360. They make two versions with RGB and without new and improved pump quite operation. You can set an automatic. The pump Ian’s fans

or just with a temperature curve you set or if you plan beating on it, just put everything to maximum and beat the hell out of it. Lol

It will be OK …it even handles 14900 kf. 2x cores at 6.244 6@5.844. And all Ecores Ecores boosted also Plus over spinning the bus at 101.50. Does pretty well.

lmao I’m running a 240mm rad for an i7 13700kf with a lil undervolt and I never go past 70s gaming, 94 all core loads (getting 29k points on cinebench r23) on an itx case with a 4070ti dumping heat all over the place. I think you’re good if you want to go with it. but I recommend an air cooler since they’re less of a hassle.

Yes. I use the LT520 from deepcool, and it keeps my 13600KF at a cool 55c when gaming. 75c doing a multi core benchmark on cinebench 2024. (4.6ghz all core)

ive got a 240mm and a 14900k i9 its fine, you just run risks doing anything crazy

eventually im upgrading to a 360 this cpu is a absolute beast even with a 240!

Maybe. But a 240mm AIO has no advantages over a good air-cooler, and all the downsides of an AIO. Eg. pointless.

Yes. More than enough.