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5820k with noctua d14 cooler?

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Hi, is it considered unsafe to overclock the 5820k to 4.0 ghz without a water cooler? I have the noctua nh-d14 se2011 cooler on it atm and want to know if its time to upgrade to a water cooler. Thanks

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D14 is a very powerful cooler. It is perfectly fine for that

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okay, thanks. you think I can go higher with the d14 or just stick at 4.0 ghz. Only overclocking becuase I recently got into pc gaming and it seems that games require more powerful single cores than just more cores. 

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2 minutes ago, msammy93 said:

okay, thanks. you think I can go higher with the d14 or just stick at 4.0 ghz. Only overclocking becuase I recently got into pc gaming and it seems that games require more powerful single cores than just more cores. 

If you're at 4 GHz now, run a stress test. see how hot it gets. If you are comfortable going hotter, overclock more. repeat until it gets too hot or is unstable

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im kind of a noob at this so not sure what is considered a good temp. I guess I need to keep it under 80C or so?

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4 minutes ago, msammy93 said:

im kind of a noob at this so not sure what is considered a good temp. I guess I need to keep it under 80C or so?

Yeah. More like under 90

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29 minutes ago, msammy93 said:

Hi, is it considered unsafe to overclock the 5820k to 4.0 ghz without a water cooler? I have the noctua nh-d14 se2011 cooler on it atm and want to know if its time to upgrade to a water cooler. Thanks

The D14 is pretty much on par with high end AIO water coolers.

 

17 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Yeah. More like under 90

That's technically true but doesn't give much headroom. I personally like it to be cooler but some may be willing to let their CPU get on the hot side.

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On 1/14/2017 at 10:39 PM, msammy93 said:

okay, thanks. you think I can go higher with the d14 or just stick at 4.0 ghz. Only overclocking becuase I recently got into pc gaming and it seems that games require more powerful single cores than just more cores. 

4ghz isn't much. You should be shooting for at least 4.3ghz with the NH-D14.

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6 hours ago, WoodenMarker said:

4ghz isn't much. You should be shooting for at least 4.3ghz with the NH-D14.

thanks for the reply. was able to get 4.6 with max temp of 70c with it.

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