Hi guys, I’ve been looking at high end i7 and i9 CPUs for a new build, I’m a relative novice when it comes to this sort of thing.
I’m aware that these CPUs can heat up quite a bit, I was going with fans for cooling, but I’ve been wondering if fans will be enough to keep things cool?
I’m going to have a frostflow 200 series for cpu cooling, with 4 corsair fans on the front.
I’m aware liquid cooling might be more ideal, but I’ve always been intimidated by maintaining a liquid cooled system, so I’m just wondering if I’ll get by with fans?
Thanks!
Depends on the CPU. My R5 7600 runs nice and cool with a Peerless Assassin.
As long as you have a strong cooler there wont be any problems. You can also lower the powerlimit and/or undervolt. There are many ways to let the CPUs run cooler. Also keep in mind that most people focus on benchmarks, with normale usage you most definitely wont max out your CPU load like benchmarks do.
The issue is imo overblown to the max and only really applies to overclocking, benchmarks or Professional Video/3D Editors.
Most “normal” People can just Power Limit the CPU’s and won’t even feel the difference.
If you’re doing professional video without a GPU to assist, that’s ridiculous.
Okay but like why would you do that
I wouldn’t recommend it; however, you can always “try”. Pop on the CPU fan, run your system and keep an eye on temps. If you’re good after hammering it on games or whatever, call it good.
If it gets too hot, yeah, liquid cooling. Look for AIO cooling solution. It’s as easy as installing the CPU fan.
AIOs LCS are closed loop and don’t need any special maintenance. In any case If you go for air cooling then whatever the number of fans you place in the case follow the rule of +1 fan intake over the exhaust fans. I do the opposite +1 fan exhaust, at the expense of dealing with a little dust. For the case use always 140 mm fans at medium/low rpm vs 120mm at medium/high rpm. Better performance and more silent.
Liquid cooling just increases the thermal mass, which only helps with bursty loads. If you’re running something intensive for a long time there won’t be much difference between a beefy air cooler like the NH-d15 and a typical AIO.