upgrade advice on cooler for cpu please

leea123

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Hi all, So am going to be upgrading a couple fo parts soon with pcs , upgrading the 3080 to a 5070ti but was thinking of upgrading my cpu cooler as well,. Got the H115i elite capellix rgb at moment cooling my 5900x , but would like the temps to drop a little, and just think it would be a good time . I see in the cooler page they have the NZXT Kraken Elite 360 . It loooks good to me , anyone had one and can give an opinion before i add it to order ?
Thank you

 

TonyCarter

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What case do you have? This will inform us of the max size of cooler that will fit, it may also be a good opportunity to replace the thermal paste with Thermal Grizzly Kryosheet (graphene sheet).

But to answer your question, it is a good cooler, but not sure it’s worth almost £100 more than the cost of the Corsair Titan 360 LCD or double the cost of the non-LCD version.
 

BlessedSquirrel

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I’m also not sure it would drop temps any further anyway, the H115 should be fine for that cpu. H115 is a 280mm radiator with 2 x 140mm fans so higher airflow with lower rpm, so quieter. The Elite 360 is a 360mm radiator with 3 x 120mm fans, so could get around 10% improvement IF there was any headroom on the processor but I don’t think there would be on the 5900x personally

AIOs don’t cool the same way as air, so you’ll have higher resting temps but a narrower delta between idle and load
 
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TonyCarter

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I’m also not sure it would drop temps any further anyway, the H115 should be fine for that cpu. H115 is a 280mm radiator with 2 x 140mm fans so higher airflow with lower rpm, so quieter. The Elite 360 is a 360mm radiator with 3 x 120mm fans, so could get around 10% improvement IF there was any headroom on the processor but I don’t think there would be on the 5900x personally

AIOs don’t cool the same way as air, so you’ll have higher resting temps but a narrower delta between idle and load
That's why I was asking about the case, because if it has restricted airflow (or is in a 'cubby') then a bigger cooler may not show any benefit at all.

However, looking at the OP's previous posts, I think it is a Corsair 5000X, so it shouldn't be having any airflow issues...as long as the intake/exhaust/AIO fans are balanced and not pushing the air out before it's had chance to absorb heat from the rad.

Looking at the original config request (in 2022), I can't see the reasoning for suggesting a change from a 5800X to a 5900X for a gaming PC, especially if the 5800X3D was around at the time :unsure:
 
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BlessedSquirrel

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Looking at the original config request (in 2022), I can't see the reasoning for suggesting a change from a 5800X to a 5900X for a gaming PC, especially if the 5800X3D was around at the time :unsure:
Yeah, we totally missed that, wonder if it was just the extra cores to dedicate to a stream? No idea
 

leea123

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Thank you for the input all. yeah i only went with the 5900x because of what was said on here at the time, been great cpu anyway . Regarding the cpu cooler . I am surprised that not worth an upgrade , but it saves me money, so thank you. looks like just the gpu then . Thank you
 
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