Should I use air cooling or liquid cooling for overclocking 4690K + R9 290?

Cortez 10-32

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What the title says. I'm making a build that has these parts:

CPU: i5 4690K
GPU: Sapphire Radeon R9 290
Motherboard: Asus Z97-A

I plan on overclocking the CPU to at least 4.0. I'm not planning on going crazy. I read that liquid cooling might end up having the other parts run more hot than usual. Is this true? I was planning on going with the Corsair H100i if I choose liquid cooling. Would anyone prefer something different?

If not liquid cooling, what kind of air cooling would one recommend? Should I also buy extra fans or will the stock fan for the Sapphire Radeon R9 290 be sufficient?
 
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Air. 4.0 is conservative for a 4690k with most mid level coolers. A hyper 212 evo will do that just fine.

Keep the 290 stock. The performance gain is not worth the cost. It is better to just buy a better GPU.

gilbadon

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Air. 4.0 is conservative for a 4690k with most mid level coolers. A hyper 212 evo will do that just fine.

Keep the 290 stock. The performance gain is not worth the cost. It is better to just buy a better GPU.
 
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