Cooling/mobo options for i5 8600K, in a small-ish case

[Stefan_10]

Greetings, I've finally ammased the funds to put my dream [strike]from 1 year ago[/strike] pc together. I already have a gtx 1080, and I've decided to buy an i5 8600k to go with it.
The case I have is a cooler master masterbox lite 5, I bought it because it was on sale at a local shop, and thought it looked nice.
My problem is that it can't fit coolers larger than 160mm, but do I even need something like that ?
I originally wanted to buy a cryorig h7, but my parents, bless them, wanting to help me out a bit offered to buy me the cooler, and they thought more expensive = better, so they went for the biggest baddest cooler, the big noctua one. . . and it won't fit.
And another but: would it even be worth it ? I would use this pc for gaming, would OC-ing the i5 make a significant dent in performance ? If not, I'll go for any cooler you guys recommend, noise and price are more important then.
And also for the mobo I would just go for the cheapest one(bad ideea, I know), Asus TUF Z370 Plus Gaming.

Ah, also I will return the noctua cooler, just wanted to mention that.

 

[gaborbarla]

Hi, I recently helped my father with getting an 8600K upgrade. The system was for work and for quite a bit of gaming such as PUBG (yes he joins us for a games often). After quite a bit of picking components I selected the Asus ROG Strix Z370-H Gaming as the choice for him. The main selling point was the better than average sound on this board. (it also has amplified heaphone jack which is necessary for some better headphones as well as decent mic port.)
I got the G.Skill F4-3200C16D-16GVKB Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2x8GB) 3200MHz DDR4 CL16 1.35V Black Desktop Memory for him.
For CPU fan after much hesitation I got the CoolerMaster X Dream i117 - CPU Cooler for Intel.

I was hesitant with the cooler because it is important to not be noisy but it must not overheat. He is unlikely to overclock.

After assembling the system it looks like the choice was brilliant. We have a heat wave this last few weeks and often the outside temp reaches 35C. The CPU fan is quiet and temperatures in games are around 60C. In comparison I spent more than 10 times more money on a MasterAir Maker 8 for my system which required a new case and little overclocking you can do (e.g. 10%-20%) is not worth the risk of overheating crashing having to monitor temps and having a loud system. But that is my opinion, the cheap Coolermaster X dream i117 does an amazing job. My father's PC can barely be heard at all and it does not overheat.

I hope that answers your question. I guess the TUF is also a good option. The sound is the major difference I think and the look of the board is a bit better on ROG but this may not matter at all to you.

Gabor