So... the DeepCool AK400 WH tower cooler arrived today, I made sure it was installed as securely as possible...
Went into the UEFI and set CPU's PL1 to 115W and PL2 to 180W for 56 seconds...
The cooler can handle TDPs of up to 220W... so it's fine...
However, the motherboard apparently...
Found this in an online store, and got the white variant to match my case.
AK400 WH - DeepCool
It has a 220W TDP, that should be more than plenty cool down the i5-11400 at its maximum power draw under heavy workloads right?
The cooler seemed to be mounted correctly... I then decided to try CineBench R23...
Immediatelly the fan went very loud... and coretemp showed short bursts of 85 to 95ºC...
I shut the computer down and double checked the cooler mounting... it wasn't seated properly...
I corrected the issue...
I want to build a new PC, mostly for gaming. i play pretty CPU intensive games like flight sims, arma 3, etc. so i want a powerful CPU and overclock it to around 5GHZ. (intel only tho out of personal preference!)
i currently have a rig with a 6700k @ 4,6 GHZ but i will use that as a backup PC...