What would be the best radiator/cooler for overclocking

[JpBoi]

What would be better for cooling if i'm going to be overclocking a Intel i5 3570k? A radiator or air cooling? Which would be the best for me?

 

[Maarsch]

Depends on how far you want to take it.

If you want to OC a bit to get a few extra % out of your CPU you can get by with something from this list.

If you're a bit more serious you can check out this list.

If you want to go as high as possible liquid cooling is definitely the way and you should check out this list.

Beyond that lies the way to madness and submerging your PC in liquid nitrogen.

 

[rubix_1011]

The 'radiator' in a liquid cooling loop is only the heat exchanger. It requires a pump, tubing and some sort of interface block that transfers the heat watts being put out by the CPU (or video card) to transfer into the coolant - think of a water block for a component as a heatsink that interfaces with coolant rather than water.

Before you get very far, you're going to need to understand how to overclock; just using a GUI tool from within Windows isn't the best method. You're going to want to do this from within your BIOS and requires an understanding of how to adjust timings and voltages for your motherboard, RAM and CPU. It also requires that these components, and power supply, are good, stable and reliable.

If you have questions on liquid/watercooling, see the watercooling sticky link in my sig line below. I'll be perfectly honest - the link with those closed loop coolers are your common, run of the mill coolers, but you get what you pay for. In most instances, good air coolers perform about as good and in some cases, better than some closed loop coolers. Liquid/watercooling doesn't all perform like a full watercooling loop.

 

[Tradesman1]

You can take it high with an air cooler, I ran my 3570K at 4.7 24/7 with a Hyper 212 EVO for years, and the new owner continues to run it at 4.7

 

[BiggerBluer]

Not going to say what you should get but I have the Noctua D-15 and I must say it is a beast.

 

[KKAW]

What would be better for cooling if i'm going to be overclocking a Intel i5 3570k? A radiator or air cooling? Which would be the best for me?

Mild Overclocking: Cryorig H7
Higher Overclocking: Nepton 120XL