Is this water cooler enough for 9590?

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Hi, so I recently ordered an AMD-FX 9590 and was wondering that since its 220w, if my water cooler is enough to tame this monster. Here is the water cooler: Asetek 550LC High Performance Liquid Cooling.

I of course would prefer not to upgrade, but I don't want to have my cpu running hotter than my water cooler can handle.
 
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Depending on what motherboard it may or may not be sufficient for that cpu. For aio cooling a 240mm radiator (dual 120mm fans) would be a better solution. Hopefully your case has room for one. There are several coolers that would work though comments about vrm cooling Dragos Manea made make the case for something like the cryorig a40. It's a 240mm aio cooler with a fan on the waterblock that can be angled toward the vrm.

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/kbhj4D/cryorig-cpu-cooler-a40
unfortunately this thing can not cool 200watt CPU. even in theory, the radiator fan will have to run way over 2000RPM while the temperature would be still too high. to dissipate 200 watt the coolant would have to be at least 15-20C above ambient.
Don't bother with such small things - you need at least 2x120 to keep thing both cool and quiet. If you thinking abut AiO - the only one that is both decent and available right now is Swiftech H220 X2 (or any other Hxx0 X2 variant)
 
Depending on what motherboard it may or may not be sufficient for that cpu. For aio cooling a 240mm radiator (dual 120mm fans) would be a better solution. Hopefully your case has room for one. There are several coolers that would work though comments about vrm cooling Dragos Manea made make the case for something like the cryorig a40. It's a 240mm aio cooler with a fan on the waterblock that can be angled toward the vrm.

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/kbhj4D/cryorig-cpu-cooler-a40
 
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That is very nice, didnt knew something like that exists. This would be perfect for OP.