Maximum performance i9-9940X

[raWer]

Hi. I would like to get the most out of my i9-9940x. I am now limited by the temperature where the cores reach 77-95 ° C. I go to 1.245V. [email protected], 8x4.8Ghz and [email protected]. I would like to achieve at least 5.0 best 5.1Ghz on at least the 2 best cores. But my Artic Liquid II 280mm won't cool me anymore. Question, should I buy a 360mm or try Direct Die? It's only at home and I mostly editing 4K videos on a PC and when it's time I play games. (reasonable 3x a year ) But it's still such a hobby, so no custom cooling etc. is out of the question. Is there anything real that pays off? Or I'm already at the CPU limit for home overcloking. Thank you.

 

[EsaT]

Welcome aboard.

Intel uses "artistic freedom" in marketing and real TDP under full load is likely 250+ W even at defaults.
Hence you'll need something like nuclear reactor's cooling system to overclock that core count.

 

[Radox-0]

May be able to go slightly higher, but would not bother really by swapping out AIO, 280mm is not too far off what a 360mm offers anyways more so that cooler given its already one of the best AIO's around. Your voltages seem pretty nice for those sort of numbers, to notch it up to 5Ghz on few cores will require usually pretty nice jump.