[SOLVED] Best cooler for my i7 8700k

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So I’m looking for a cooler for my i7 8700k, and I prefer a air cooler because I don’t trust putting water in my pc. I also don’t plan on overclocking. My current air cooler is a cooler master rr-212s-20pk-r1 hyper 21 and I don’t know if it will be enough to keep my temps down while at full load. So does anyone have any suggestions?
 
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I've seen that as well, which pretty much assumes that it doesn't have the additional overclocking headroom we expected it to have but indications are that it STILL has somewhat lower temps than 8700k at the stock configuration, or overclocked. It's just that it's not offering the sort of benefits that delidding offers, which is what the overclocking community expected because that's what we saw on the last generation that had soldered TIM, which was some of the Ivy bridge CPUs.

Also, the 212 is definitely not the best performance for the price. In most regions, if you HAVE to use a lower end budget cooler, the Deepcool Gammaxx 400 is generally about five bucks cheaper, AND outperforms the Hyper 212 Evo somewhat.

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If i were you, i'd test if my current cooler is doing the job already. Especially when not planning to oc. But if you want to upgrade anyways go for the Thermalright macho rev b or some midrange noctua cooler.
 
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That Hyper 212 EVO is "ok" as an entry level cooler. On that 6/12 processor I wouldn't want to use it though. It will supposedly handle up to 150w TDP but even on 95w processors that cooler is generally screaming bloody murder with the fan maxed out under full load and will still barely manage thermals well. And that's at the stock configuration. If ANY overclocking is in the plans, forget it. That CPU is going to shoot up the TDP so fast that cooler will never be enough regardless how fast the fan is going.
 
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I run a 9700k and a noctua NH-D14 and under the harshest loads at stock speed with slight undervolt my temps get the upper 70sC. Granted that's max core temp spikes not avg operating temp, but still you get the idea. If you aren't going to OC and you're not going to pushing the cpu to its power limits you could probably get by on a more budget air cooler. If it was me though I'd invest in something I know could keep things cool under any load and for that you'll need quite a beefy air cooler, and you'll need to make sure it will fit properly in your setup as well.
 
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And THAT is exactly what I'm talking about. And supposedly, haven't tested one yet, the 9700k runs cooler than the 8700k due to the solder TIM, so should be even worse with the 8700k and a weak cooler. Both are 95w TDP though, so comparison is fairly equal.
 
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The few things I've seen about the 9th generation are news about how bad is the soldering quality and 9900k temperatures going extremely high even at stock speeds with some of the best coolers, so I think that the 9th gen is just another kind of processor to deal with when speaking about temperatures. And anyway the process is still 14nm where the 9700k is packaging 8 cores so it makes it even harder to keep it cool.

I agree with the 212 not really being great but still some of the best in price/performance. Still, we need to know the budget, but a 8700k shouldn't be specially hard to keep cool and any well sized Noctua will do the trick.
 
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I've seen that as well, which pretty much assumes that it doesn't have the additional overclocking headroom we expected it to have but indications are that it STILL has somewhat lower temps than 8700k at the stock configuration, or overclocked. It's just that it's not offering the sort of benefits that delidding offers, which is what the overclocking community expected because that's what we saw on the last generation that had soldered TIM, which was some of the Ivy bridge CPUs.

Also, the 212 is definitely not the best performance for the price. In most regions, if you HAVE to use a lower end budget cooler, the Deepcool Gammaxx 400 is generally about five bucks cheaper, AND outperforms the Hyper 212 Evo somewhat.

Doesn't even need to be a big cooler particularly unless you are overclocking. The Cryorig H5, Thermalright Macho rev.B or Noctua NH-U14S are all capable enough for that CPU easily, with single finstacks and single fans. Overclocked to any significant degree, you'd want a twin finstack, twin fan cooler or water cooling whether AIO CLC or custom loop.
 
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