i7 4790k best cooling in Coolermaster CM Force 500 case with Asus B85M-Gamer Mobo

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Greetings,

I am planning on buying an Intel i7-4790k CPU, but I'm worried about it getting to hot. (Planning on overclocking in the future).

I'm looking for a decent air cooler that will keep my CPU cool enough and can fit in my "small" case. The RAM height should be no problem.

My mobo is an Asus B85M -Gamer Micro-ATX. (No B85 Pro)

I'm looking forward to your answers.

 
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That's not really the best of motherboards to be trying to overclock an i7 with. You may want to reconsider a z series board. Depending how small your case is, you may need to opt for an aio cooler like and h80i or something. Hard to recommend without knowing what case you've got and how much clearance there is for coolers. Trying to get an air cooler for decent overclocking in such a cramped space is going to be a challenge.
 
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The case is a Cooler Master CM Force 500: http://tweakers.net/pricewatch/326731/cooler-master-force-500.html

For the motherboard I think I would choose this one: http://tweakers.net/pricewatch/383995/asus-z97-a.html
Seeing the price isn't that high. The problem is I will have a lot of parts laying around.

For a cooler I found this one from Noctua: http://tweakers.net/pricewatch/331490/noctua-nh-u12s/specificaties/

Should these be enough to safely overclock?

Or should I buy the i7- 4790 or i7 4790k but keep it on it's base clock?

 
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If you want to overclock K parts are your only solution. Depending you ambient temperature, yes the noctua could be used for a mild overclock. May I ask why do you want to get into overclocking? Unless you are doing it for the sake of it, I don't see many advantages by upping the frequency. Especially if you are into gaming IMO.
 
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I'm not planning on overclocking the moment I get the CPU, but more to keep the performance "steady" as the years go by.
So buying a normal i7-4790 would be better?

As I don't really want to "rebuild" my whole pc again.
 
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Sorry but I missed you mobo first time. On the B85 overclocking is not possible, and even if it was I would advise against it. The thermal load of both cpu is almost the same, so the noctua can keep both really cool and silent. Since you cannot overclock on your system I would go for the non-k part. The difference in frequency is not that big of a deal in the real world.
 
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Thanks for your advice.

One final question, I play a lot of World of Warcraft and that's mainly a single-core game. It looks like the K version has the best single-core performance. So would it be better to buy the K version without overclocking it?
 
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The 4790k would be better even without overclocking because it's faster out of the box than the 4790 non k by 400mhz. It's different from the i5 4690 vs 4690k since the i5's are the same aside from the unlocked multiplier. The i7's aren't the same and the k edition is actually faster whether you oc it or not.
 
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