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!

  • floofandmemes@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.