Best CPU cooler for I7 7700k

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Honestly Liquid coolers are not as great as they sound, there is a lot more hype than use to them. You would need to really know the benefits of having one rather than just having one. You have a 4 Physical core CPU, it will emit heat upon use of those four cores, in this situation, a good air cooler has more than enough capability to keep your CPU running at good temps. If we were talking about the new gen 6physical core CPUs, we would move the price/performance scale quite a bit higher, because those 6 cores create a lot more heat.

I would suggest to invest straight away into a liquid cooler (if you wish to have one), they work fine with age, I've had mine for 6 years running my CPU at 4.7Ghz (3.4ghz stock). But the Air Coolers are...
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there is a vast selection of coolers... ranging from 20$ to whatever$. What would be your budget and goal? do you need a cooler for today? and you will upgrade cooler before overclocking? or do you need a cooler that can overclock later?

cooler for today, atop suggestions
OC cooler Noctua15 would be a good start
 
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My budget is very flexible and my goal is to find a air cooler to start with, however i wont be overclocking anytime sooner but when I will overclock I will shift to aio cooler
 
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Thanks for the suggestions. i personally like cryorig H5 universal. It seems like a good cooler but i needed to know that does this cooler block any ram slots? and hows the overall cooling?
 
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Honestly Liquid coolers are not as great as they sound, there is a lot more hype than use to them. You would need to really know the benefits of having one rather than just having one. You have a 4 Physical core CPU, it will emit heat upon use of those four cores, in this situation, a good air cooler has more than enough capability to keep your CPU running at good temps. If we were talking about the new gen 6physical core CPUs, we would move the price/performance scale quite a bit higher, because those 6 cores create a lot more heat.

I would suggest to invest straight away into a liquid cooler (if you wish to have one), they work fine with age, I've had mine for 6 years running my CPU at 4.7Ghz (3.4ghz stock). But the Air Coolers are quite good for the 4 core CPUs, H5 as suggested by volkgren is a very good price/performance cooler that is right at the top of the tier list, if you want to pay more and get a bit better cooling, you could go to Noctua-D14 if your case/mobo allows it.
 
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Maybe I had a bad sample, but the stock TIM on i7-7700K is crap. I think liquid cooling would be beneficial. NH-D15S could not keep my i7-7700K cool at 1.35V 4.9Ghz it would easily go over 90C stress tested. (*Maybe I was just reaching too far with 4.9GHz, it was stable though just couldn't keep it cool)

Liquid metal made a world of difference. What I learned though, spending a lot of money just to get 100-200MHz more clock speed is not worth the cost unless you just want to do it for fun.

4.5-4.6GHz on an i7-7700K is just fine with a Cryorig H7/H5. My Cryorig H7 reached 80-86C playing AC Origins (just that game) at 4.5GHz 1.25V on all cores. Other than that though 4.5Ghz was just fine with the H7.

 
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Yeah you're right... everything comes down to the "worth it" for the trouble part. I've got an i5-3570k and I got very lucky to get a higher tier chip. I can get 4.9Ghz without much trouble... I havent tried for more.. but.. after 4.5Ghz heat vs performance gains are not that great and not anything to really go working for...

Near 5Ghz for any chip is quite difficult to begin with, you would have to assume your luck on the chip, as well as the i7 does create a little more heat because of HT. Although reaching those temps just playing a game (and not stress test) sucks... I think that D15 should have done a much better job though...
 
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I was expecting more from the D15S also. I could add a second fan (120mm) on front of the CPU cooler and have my case fans turned up and steep fan curves on my cooler and get by with 87C running Prime95 26.6

My case Phanteks P400 wouldn't allow regular D15 or 140mm fan on front of CPU cooler.
 
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Thanks everyone for your valuable time you took to reply. I was very confused at the start but thanks to you guys for removing it. I will for the for now go for air cooling. Considering the options you have given me. I will switch to water-cooling later when I plan for a overclock. Thanks. :)
 
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