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I7-8700K Cooling Advice

Shinzra

Shinzra

Shinzra

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Hello and good afternoon all.

I have a I7-8700k arriving tommorow to replace my current I5-6600K.

I am currently using a Corsair H60 Cooler which I have found to be so far at least for the 6600k, quite good for the price I paid. With the 8700k arriving, will this cooler be ok for non overclock environment or would I need to purchase a upgraded cooler?.

Thank you.
 
yh, I plan to wait and see how the H60 performs with it first of course, just thought I would ask if anyone has the chip or even the same cooler and tried :)
 
Should be fine for NON-OVERCLOCKING. If overclocking by more than a few hundred MHz then you will need something better.
 
I had a H60 on a 7700k and it struggled. On a H80 now which works well. Imagine it would be similar. If I was going again would buy the H100i. Lot of money for a CPU you want to max performance.

As above says, worth testing though.
 
Cheers for all the replies, yh will see how it goes, I plan to just keep it stock for a while see how it performs.

Ordered some better case fans as well so hopefully that helps.
 
Well I have the 8770k under the overclockers 360 aoi clocked at 5ghz on a 1.25 voltage. Most games hit 60-65 degrees apart from assassin creed origins that hammer all 6 cores at 80+ usages that spikes it to 75. Enjoy the new cpu !
 
Shinzra said:
Cheers for all the replies, yh will see how it goes, I plan to just keep it stock for a while see how it performs.

Ordered some better case fans as well so hopefully that helps.
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At stock clocks you'll have no issues with your current cooler.

The only thing I would say is depending on your motherboard be sure that MCE (multi-core enhancement) is not enabled. ASUS motherboards for example tend to have that enabled by default which means the cpu ends up being overclocked (all cores to 4.7Ghz) with high voltage, and you may have issues with temps.

Just disable it.

The stock turbo is actually 4.7Ghz but that's NOT on every core.
 
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Well I have the 8770k under the overclockers 360 aoi clocked at 5ghz on a 1.25 voltage. Most games hit 60-65 degrees apart from assassin creed origins that hammer all 6 cores at 80+ usages that spikes it to 75. Enjoy the new cpu !
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Well you sir have won the silicon lottery! OP I imagine it would run but only at stock settings.
 
Thumbs up for ocuk 360 AIO. Used it many times for benching/binning.

End of the day, you won't get better than a delided chip regardless of what type of ambient cooling you use.
 
If you have any doubts then re-arrange the radiator so that it's in-taking fresh cool air by placing it at the front of the case drawing air in through the radiator. That offers the most efficient cooling for the CPU.
 
How old is your H60? That's a great CPU - and not cheap, my AIO cooler had a pump failure on my old i5 at the 2 year mark, so if it's getting a bit long in the tooth it might be time to replace!
 
Evening all, thought I would offer a update on the cooler and the i7 8700k. So I have had it installed today and granted I have not really done any benchmarks, mostly just the games and every day applications I would use, looking at around 28-30 idle and 50 on load in games. Fairly happy with that so far though this is at stock, will try to overclock at a later stage see how it handles it then.
 
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