Question Recommendations for a cooler for the i7 14700k?

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I've been reading reviews and getting mixed info on what kind of cooler I need for this thing, I've never had a water cooled pc before and I keep seeing people say you have to have one to keep the temps down. Anything decent out there for about 100 bucks? I'm upgrading from an i7 10700KF, my case is a Phanteks Eclipse P400A, so I think I have room in the front for 3x 120mm fan set up for an AIO. Thanks, any advice is alaways appreciated!
 
BlueVyper said:
I've been reading reviews and getting mixed info on what kind of cooler I need for this thing, I've never had a water cooled pc before and I keep seeing people say you have to have one to keep the temps down. Anything decent out there for about 100 bucks? I'm upgrading from an i7 10700KF, my case is a Phanteks Eclipse P400A, so I think I have room in the front for 3x 120mm fan set up for an AIO. Thanks, any advice is alaways appreciated!
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Is this for a gaming build or productivity build? If this is for a gaming build I would suggest another cpu that doesn't require the cooling that the 14700K does ... especially with that case.
 
BlueVyper said:
I keep seeing people say you have to have one to keep the temps down.
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They don't know what they're saying; some folks are out there echoing misinformation.
Liquid isn't necessary, especially not for games. It because users will expose their cpu to needless cpu benchmarks [by the way, cpu benchmark load =! cpu game load], then freak out at a 'fire' they will not regularly see. Cpu benchmarks will make cpus run hot under liquid too.

But if you want to try one out of curiosity, I got nothing against that...

The case's online manual says you have a total clearance of 420mm. What's the gpu - need to subtract how long that is from the total to find out how much is left.
 
Phaaze88 said:
They don't know what they're saying; some folks are out there echoing misinformation.
Liquid isn't necessary, especially not for games. It because users will expose their cpu to needless cpu benchmarks [by the way, cpu benchmark load =! cpu game load], then freak out at a 'fire' they will not regularly see. Cpu benchmarks will make cpus run hot under liquid too.

But if you want to try one out of curiosity, I got nothing against that...

The case's online manual says you have a total clearance of 420mm. What's the gpu - need to subtract how long that is from the total to find out how much is left.
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The gpu is a RTX 3080 founders
 
Phaaze88 said:
What do you mean? I was explaining that you got plenty of room in the front of the case for an AIO.
Your case doesn't officially support them in the roof, according to the online manual, FYI.
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Oh I have 3 fans in the front of the case where the AIO would go was wondering if the AIO's with 3 fans would fit. Theres a plate on the bottom of the case covering the psu etc so maybe not.
 
So if I go with a 13700k an air cooler will work fine for all games? I'm torn about this cause I waited a year to upgrade for the new chip, but I'm not thrilled with the heat thing, so now I'm wondering if I should wait another year for the new cpus.
 
BlueVyper said:
So if I go with a 13700k an air cooler will work fine for all games?
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Yes. An air cooler is completely, totally, definitely, and absolutely fine to play games on.
Just don't go 'shocked pikachu face', when you run any kind of cpu benchmark(for 'reasons'), on motherboard auto/optimized defaults, as they are excessive by default - and they have to be, due to the variance in silicon quality between each and everyone's chips.


Look what Hardware Canucks has here with the i9 and i5 for games:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNFgswzTvyc

(see 9:41 and 14:21, or watch the whole vid)
Imagine that the i7 is going to be somewhere in between them.
 
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