Cooling a i9-13900KF

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If you want to save some money and don't mind losing a small amount of performance, a dual-tower air cooler like the NH-D15 can work too. Thermalright's dual towers like the FS140 or FC140 are great bang for the buck. Also consider a Thermalright contact frame if you don't have one already.

Unless you're using every core at 100% for a considerable duration then you shouldn't have any performance difference in air vs water. If just gaming the cpu will perform exactly the same. Gaming loads typically won't run processor up to the thermal limit.

 

[dlin95123]

I have a i9-13900K with a 240mm AIO from Corsair. I have a Corsair 4000D Airflow case and it does not allow a 360mm AIO. What works for me is to set the CPU long term max power limit (PL1), short term max power limit (PL2), and duration of short term power (Tau), as well as under volt the CPU a little.

 

[chrcoluk]

My opinion is sure 100C is within spec, it wont break your warranty.

However I dont like like hot temps and have always aimed to keep my stuff as cool as possible. I havent reduced my tjmax but I have configured my chip in a way it doesnt reach that when I try to make it sweat. There is others with the same mindset, capacitors and the like life depends on their operating temperature as well.

Someone pointed this out in my 110C tjmax thread when someone else tried to claim 110C was doing no harm.

Ultimately intel have had that engineer out saying what he said is right now they in a bad spot with getting their chips to run at a good point on the v/f curve so need to reassure people all this is not a problem whatsoever.

But not all of us are trying to squeeze every last % out of our chips, its not all that matters for everyone.

 

[phanbuey]

So to this point overclocking has reversed through the years... these chips are pre-overclocked, but in order for ALL chips to hit those clocks motherboards tend to overvolt them, and undervolting 13 and 14 series brings some insanely good results, depending on the chip.

So if you get a good sample, you can drop volts and the heat drops exponentially.