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Please help on a i9-9900k based PC build

GrizzlyKiwi
By GrizzlyKiwi
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Hi Guys

 

Im thinking about building a i9 based Hackintosh and im not sure whether to go with a 240mm radiator or air cooling... what would you guys suggest? is air cooling cheaper?

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Price depends on where you are, but as far as cooling goes air cooling can do well enough for the 9900k but not perfect. My 9900k is under a NHD-15 and it barely keeps up with a 5ghz overclock (but its hot where i live so doesnt help). I personally prefer not to have it under water for fear of leaks

CPU: Intel i9 9900K Motherboard: Asus ROG Strix Z390-F RAM: 32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX @ 3000MHz CL15 GPU: Gigabyte 1080Ti Windforce w/ AIO Liquid cooler Case: Fractal Design Define S Storage: 500GB Samsung 970 Evo NVME, 1TB OCZ Trion 150, 1TB SanDisk Ultra II, 2TB Samsung 860 QVO PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 Gold 850W Display: 1440p 144Hz Acer XG270HU CPU Cooling: Noctua NH-D15 Keyboard: Logitech G Pro TKL Mouse: Logitech G403 Wireless Sound: Fiio E10k + Sennheiser HD6xx + Logitech Desktop Tower Speakers OS: Windows 10 Home

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It depends on the load, if it's smth low-load like gaming, music production, photo editing then air cooling would do just fine (but why do you need i9 9900K then), if it's video editing or rendering then i'd go with AIO but preferably 280\360mm as 240mm doesn't change things much over good air cooler.

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39 minutes ago, Juular said:

It depends on the load, if it's smth low-load like gaming, music production, photo editing then air cooling would do just fine (but why do you need i9 9900K then), if it's video editing or rendering then i'd go with AIO but preferably 280\360mm as 240mm doesn't change things much over good air cooler.

Thanks im planning on Editing on FCP, Gaming and also Photoshop work.

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