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Are fans enough for higher end CPUs? (alien.top)

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Hi guys, I've been looking at high end i7 and i9 CPUs for a new build, I'm a relative novice when it comes to this sort of thing.

I'm aware that these CPUs can heat up quite a bit, I was going with fans for cooling, but I've been wondering if fans will be enough to keep things cool?

I'm going to have a frostflow 200 series for cpu cooling, with 4 corsair fans on the front.

I'm aware liquid cooling might be more ideal, but I've always been intimidated by maintaining a liquid cooled system, so I'm just wondering if I'll get by with fans?

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

AIOs LCS are closed loop and don't need any special maintenance. In any case If you go for air cooling then whatever the number of fans you place in the case follow the rule of +1 fan intake over the exhaust fans. I do the opposite +1 fan exhaust, at the expense of dealing with a little dust. For the case use always 140 mm fans at medium/low rpm vs 120mm at medium/high rpm. Better performance and more silent.