Your probably right unless you want to go with a double thick 120mm aio in the back The Corsair H80i would work.
I think though for air I would recommend something a little beefier then the NH-U12S. These cpus run hot and without fairly good cooling any decent overclock will put too much heat on it.
The Dark Rock Pro 3 silentwings is probably your best bet. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA68V21E0640
Now here is the good news. Yes mine is at 5.0ghz. I did find out though that I could just raise the multiplier to 46 and leave everything else on auto to get a stable light overclock. Good luck.
This would depend also depend on the case you are using as well as the motherboard. Also how many memory slots you are using. As well as do you prefer air or an aio cooler.So how about you tell us the rest of your specs.
Sorry about that... Im using ms monster blue led fan case, z370 hd3 motherboard, 2x8gb ddr4 3000mhz memory. Im planing overclocking in the future, and im okay with air cooler, i can buy water if it is necesarry. I was thinking of NOCTUNA NH-U12S cooler.
Your probably right unless you want to go with a double thick 120mm aio in the back The Corsair H80i would work.
I think though for air I would recommend something a little beefier then the NH-U12S. These cpus run hot and without fairly good cooling any decent overclock will put too much heat on it.
The Dark Rock Pro 3 silentwings is probably your best bet. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA68V21E0640
Now here is the good news. Yes mine is at 5.0ghz. I did find out though that I could just raise the multiplier to 46 and leave everything else on auto to get a stable light overclock. Good luck.