Hello.
Is Noctua u12a enough for i7 14th? I’m a little bit scared of aio, never had one, and I dont like idea of liquid in my pc:x PC will be used usually as gaming centre, and maybe once a time streaming centre for friends. Is AIO must have for 14th generation intel? Or for my purposes(gaming in 1080p at 100-160fps) is more than enough?
had a U12A on my 12900K for a while actually. thermals were fine but the fan noise can be a bit much at higher RPMs. that will come up in gaming unless you set a custom fan curve or power limit the proc. tried fan curve first and it gutted my R23 but ymmv. simple power limit of 250W was good for 90-95% of liquid-cooled performance in my limited testing.