Best priced/performance Liquid Cooler for OC 6600k to 4.4GHz

WindowLickerAU · Jul 6, 2016

Hey
I do have ordered an air cooler which allows me to keep the CPU to a reasonable temperature when overclocking to 4GHz to 4.2GHz max.

The cooler is a Cooler Master Hyper 212X Universal CPU Cooler
http://www.centrecom.com.au/cooler-master-hyper-212x-cpu-cooler

When i get a little more cash to spend, whats a reasonably priced liquid cooler that can keep a i5 6600k overclocked to 4.4Ghz at a reasonably low temperature. (I plan to buy more silent fans to have a quiet and low temp build)

Thanks in advanced

geofelt · Jul 6, 2016

No liquid cooler will allow you to overclock measurably higher than the hyper212.
Something like a noctua NH-U14s would be as strong as I would go.

14nm skylake runs cool. Your limits to overclocking will be the Vcore you can tolerate, not the thermal limits.
I run a I5-6600K @4.8 with no cooling issues with a Noctua NH-U2s

How well you can overclock is determined by the quality of your chip.

As of 5/2016
What percent can get an overclock at a somewhat sane 1.40v Vcore.

I5-6600K
5.0 2%
4.9 11%
4.8 36%
4.7 64%
4.6 88%
My canned rant on liquid cooling:
------------------------start of rant-------------------
You buy a liquid cooler to be able to extract an extra multiplier or two out of your OC.
How much do you really need?
I do not much like all in one liquid coolers when a good air cooler like a Noctua or phanteks can do the job just as well.
A liquid cooler will be expensive, noisy, less reliable, and will not cool any better
in a well ventilated case.
Liquid cooling is really air cooling, it just puts the heat exchange in a different place.
The orientation of the radiator will cause a problem.
If you orient it to take in cool air from the outside, you will cool the cpu better, but the hot air then circulates inside the case heating up the graphics card and motherboard.
If you orient it to exhaust(which I think is better) , then your cpu cooling will be less effective because it uses pre heated case air.
And... I have read too many tales of woe when a liquid cooler leaks.
google "H100 leak"
-----------------------end of rant--------------------------

Your pc will be quieter, more reliable, and will be cooled equally well with a decent air cooler.

WindowLickerAU · Jul 6, 2016

geofelt :

No liquid cooler will allow you to overclock measurably higher than the hyper212.
Something like a noctua NH-U14s would be as strong as I would go.

14nm skylake runs cool. Your limits to overclocking will be the Vcore you can tolerate, not the thermal limits.
I run a I5-6600K @4.8 with no cooling issues with a Noctua NH-U2s

How well you can overclock is determined by the quality of your chip.

As of 5/2016
What percent can get an overclock at a somewhat sane 1.40v Vcore.

I5-6600K
5.0 2%
4.9 11%
4.8 36%
4.7 64%
4.6 88%
My canned rant on liquid cooling:
------------------------start of rant-------------------
You buy a liquid cooler to be able to extract an extra multiplier or two out of your OC.
How much do you really need?
I do not much like all in one liquid coolers when a good air cooler like a Noctua or phanteks can do the job just as well.
A liquid cooler will be expensive, noisy, less reliable, and will not cool any better
in a well ventilated case.
Liquid cooling is really air cooling, it just puts the heat exchange in a different place.
The orientation of the radiator will cause a problem.
If you orient it to take in cool air from the outside, you will cool the cpu better, but the hot air then circulates inside the case heating up the graphics card and motherboard.
If you orient it to exhaust(which I think is better) , then your cpu cooling will be less effective because it uses pre heated case air.
And... I have read too many tales of woe when a liquid cooler leaks.
google "H100 leak"
-----------------------end of rant--------------------------

Your pc will be quieter, more reliable, and will be cooled equally well with a decent air cooler.

Fair enough, cheers for the help, probably will end up getting this.
I'm not doubting what youve stated but just curious why do most builds, on YouTube especially, use liquid cooling (even ones using a 6600k)

geofelt · Nov 24, 2016

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