Hey y’all. Recently got a 12900k and was just wondering how important it is to upgrade my AIO to something bigger. Just trying to avoid “cooking it” overnight.
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yes, 120mm aio is pretty much the same as an dual tower air cooler. I used an 120mm aio on both an 12700k and 12900k as I only had one 360 aio so one of those had to use the 120 aio and it was doing okey job.
I see that people are trying to scare u off, if you have the 120mm aio just use it. it will be more than okey for 99% of your usecase/workload. just as bigger aios and big aircoolers it will be super hot when U load all the cores up like in an tile based renderer but for gaming and desktop use, no probs at all.
no.
120 aio is a joke. Even an air cooler easily outperform it.
Only time you should use a 120mm AIO is in an ITX if you don’t have room for an air cooler, imo
Most air coolers are better than 120mm aios.
Jesus a Noctua NHU9S is better than a 120 AIO
No no of course not. I’ve heard even air coolers a better than a 120mm aio. Get atleast a noctua or a 240mm aio
no, not even close
If you don’t want to spend a bunch, I just installed a Phantom Spirit 120SE on my 12900k today and it’s fantastic. Paired with an undervolt and it only hit 74 in Cinebench.
If you undervolt and you wanna play games, yes, it’s perfectly fine. TLOU is by far the heaviest game in terms of power draw, this is 720p on a 4090, max power draw is 120w. In most games and in normal resolutions after you undervolt it power will be at 40 to 70 watts
It will thermal throttle in all-core benchmarks, but gaming will be fine
No. You can probably use that 120mm AIO on a media center i3, i5 or i7 4th or 5th gen cpu but not on an i7 or i9 newer gen.
Hell no
No. Good 240mm AIO minimum or a top quality fan cooler. 120mm AIOs are good for basically low end 65 watt processors but even low end fan coolers can do as good or better job.
no. even 240mm aios and some 280mm aios trade blows or are at least very close to good air coolers, AIOs start to become worth it at 360/420mm and at 280 it mostly comes down to preference but a good aio is gonna beat the best air cooler so its the better pick if its not a blind buy