240mm AIO Enough?

[Rob_dog]

My cousin has always wanted a new PC for gaming and streaming, and schoolwork, with some video editing, so I thought the Intel Core i9-10850K should suit him well. Will a 240mm be enough?

 

His PC Specs:

Corsair 4000D Airflow

NZXT Kraken X53 (Top Mount Exhaust)

Intel Core i9-10850K (Stock, Multi Core Enhancement On)

 

[tkitch]

absolutely fine, a 240 will cool just about anything.  

[szdawid2]

Yes, a 240mm AIO is enough for a 10850K, but if you really aren't sure, then use a 360mm AIO, but i assure you that it's enough.

[LIGISTX]

5 minutes ago, Rob_dog said:

My cousin has always wanted a new PC for gaming and streaming, and schoolwork, with some video editing, so I thought the Intel Core i9-10850K should suit him well. Will a 240mm be enough?

 

His PC Specs:

Corsair 4000D Airflow

NZXT Kraken X53 (Top Mount Exhaust)

Intel Core i9-10850K

 

It will be fine unless you get crazy and try and OC it a lot. But a 10850 won't have much OC headroom anyways... 

 

Also, is this a new build? Like do you/he already have the 10850k? If not, I would definitely look at 12000 series Intel instead.

[Rob_dog]

3 hours ago, szdawid2 said:

Yes, a 240mm AIO is enough for a 10850K, but if you really aren't sure, then use a 360mm AIO, but i assure you that it's enough.

no OC, multi core enhancement will be on

[Rob_dog]

3 hours ago, LIGISTX said:

It will be fine unless you get crazy and try and OC it a lot. But a 10850 won't have much OC headroom anyways... 

 

Also, is this a new build? Like do you/he already have the 10850k? If not, I would definitely look at 12000 series Intel instead.

This is a new build, since DDR5 is expensive and the 10850K is a banger CPU for the price, I picked that. I will not be OC'ing, but Multi Core Enhancement will be turned on.

[LIGISTX]

1 hour ago, Rob_dog said:

This is a new build, since DDR5 is expensive and the 10850K is a banger CPU for the price, I picked that. I will not be OC'ing, but Multi Core Enhancement will be turned on.

What’s the price of a 10850k these days? Why not go 12th gen with ddr4?

[Rob_dog]

1 hour ago, LIGISTX said:

What’s the price of a 10850k these days? Why not go 12th gen with ddr4?

it's $419.99 off a retailer but my friend is reselling his for $299.99 (new) so I will purchase from him. Going 12th gen with DDR4 just doesn't match, if I wanted to go 12th gen, I would be better off with DDR5

[LIGISTX]

1 minute ago, Rob_dog said:

it's $419.99 off a retailer but my friend is reselling his for $299.99 (new) so I will purchase from him. Going 12th gen with DDR4 just doesn't match, if I wanted to go 12th gen, I would be better off with DDR5

I feel like a 12700k isn’t much more then 299, is it? I have not looked at pricing much…

 

DDR4 12th gen makes more sense the DDR4 10th gen. Right now with the early growing pains of a new DDR generation, the speeds are not very fast, so DDR4 isn’t much different performance wise then DDR5… but 12th gen destroys 10th gen. Unless the mobo and CPU costs are a solid amount less, I’d say go 12th gen seeing as it’s a pretty big performance improvement. 

[LIGISTX]

A 12700kf is 394, the mobo will be more money but likely not that much more… and it’s what, like a 15-20% improvement to performance? 

[Rob_dog]

30 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

A 12700kf is 394, the mobo will be more money but likely not that much more… and it’s what, like a 15-20% improvement to performance? 

It's a new socket and I don't know if the manufacturer will have a backplate/bracket for it.

[LIGISTX]

2 minutes ago, Rob_dog said:

It's a new socket and I don't know if the manufacturer will have a backplate/bracket for it.

https://support.nzxt.com/hc/en-us/articles/4407896253339-How-to-get-the-LGA-1700-Bracket