CPU cooler really needded?

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Axzevos

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Hello. I'am gonna buy a new gaming computer, but I'am on a budget. Anyway, I can tell some of my specs.
The processor is i5 4670k btw.

i5 4670k
CM storm stryker case
XFX proseries 850w
2x evga geforce gtx 770 superclocked

And thats most what you need to know. So my question is, do I really need a cpu cooler to overclock safe? And how much do you guys think I can overclock the i5 4670k with that system without a cpu cooler?
 
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You won't be able to hit anything above the stock turbo speed on the stock cooler if you want to keep your hearing. A system with even a budget heatsink, such as this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835233082&Tpk=xigmatek%20gaia
will be much more pleasurable to use than the stock cooler, and it gives you the ability for a mild overclock, like maybe around 4.2GHz.
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you can do light overclocking with the stock cooler(no voltage increase), but if you increase voltages in order to get a heavy overclock in, you will need an aftermarket cooler.

acc. to anandtech, you'll get 4.3GHz - 4.7GHz at somewhere in the 1.2 - 1.35V range
 
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Even with no overclock, an aftermarket cooler is better. Quieter.
You can't pinch $25 out of that budget?
 
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Ehmm "better". What do you mean with that? Do I render faster, or? What do you mean with better? Do i get more fps, render faster?
 
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Axzevos

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So I can overclock to 4,2GHz and the computer will still be "safe?"
 
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That depends on many other factors as well:
More Ghz = more heat. Case, airflow, cable management, ambient temperature...all of those also come into play.
For a given temp level, a stock cooler will be working harder than a good aftermarket one. And almost certainly higher fan speed. More noise.
Eventually, you run out of cooling capacity on that stock cooler fan.
 
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You won't be able to hit anything above the stock turbo speed on the stock cooler if you want to keep your hearing. A system with even a budget heatsink, such as this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835233082&Tpk=xigmatek%20gaia
will be much more pleasurable to use than the stock cooler, and it gives you the ability for a mild overclock, like maybe around 4.2GHz.
 
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It is better for the CPU to run an after market cooler. More heat means more power and noise.

I run an i5-2400 with stock cooler. My computers main purpose is F@H (distributed computing project by Stanford researching proteins). It gets hot, sitting in the high 60's 24/7 is not good.

^Alas i don't care about the cooler because I do not care about the CPU. If it dies, meh.

If you buy a non 'K' chip but can still afford a CPU cooler then get one, if you don't do it at build you probably wont. My plan was to add one later, didn't work so well.

If you plan to overclock (or get the 'K' chip) then yes definitely get one. There are some great coolers for next to nothing.
 
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