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Saxguy101

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Hello,

For my PC I am going to build soon, I'm going to use a 4670k for the CPU. Before Haswell came out and I was planning on going with Ivy Bridge, I was going to go with the Hyper 212 Evo from Coolermaster. However, what with Haswell being very hot, I'm wondering if I should upgrade. Is this necessary? I plan to overclock, but not necessarily extensively (I'd like to get it up to the 4.0-4.5 GHZ range). I don't want to spend more than I need to, as I don't have an endless amount of money. I know that something like the Corsair H80i would be very good, but that's also an extra $50 I hadn't allocated for. If I do need to get a better CPU cooler, are there any less pricey options?

Thanks!

~Saxguy
 
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i dont think you will benefit from a high end cpu cooler if you only want to get to 4.5 max.

hes the thing, those cpus are not putting out more heat at all. they dont run hotter then previous gens because of power usage. typically the better cpu coolers tend to seperate themselves from the cheap one when you put a higher powered chip under them and haswell doesnt do that. what haswell and ivy bridge have done is put a road block up that blocks heat transfer. instead of soldering on the surface heat sink on the cpus they have used thermal paste and effectively lowered the amount of heat that can be transfered through the heat sink during a time span. therefor at a certain point regardless of how well a cpu heat sink can dissipate heat...
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You can consider "Be Quiet Dark Rock 2" Cooler not the PRO or any $50+ cooler from Phanteks. Anyway based on my experience, Haswell does get really hot compared to Ivy. I'm currently running my 4770K @ 4.0Ghz it idles at 38-40C , 60C when in normal load (playing games) and 70-78 when in 100% Load.
 
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i dont think you will benefit from a high end cpu cooler if you only want to get to 4.5 max.

hes the thing, those cpus are not putting out more heat at all. they dont run hotter then previous gens because of power usage. typically the better cpu coolers tend to seperate themselves from the cheap one when you put a higher powered chip under them and haswell doesnt do that. what haswell and ivy bridge have done is put a road block up that blocks heat transfer. instead of soldering on the surface heat sink on the cpus they have used thermal paste and effectively lowered the amount of heat that can be transfered through the heat sink during a time span. therefor at a certain point regardless of how well a cpu heat sink can dissipate heat the cpus internal thermal paste limits it. where that point is idk but expensive heat sinks have diminished returns more then ever.
 
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