Be Quiet! Be Enough!!

[GoodGame]

Will the Be Quiet! Pure Loop 2 240mm be sufficient to cool my i5 12400. I'm just interested in buying it as i would like to keep to the theme with my Be Quiet! Pure Base 500 case

[KoeppColto024470]

heck the cooler that comes with it will be fine enough since you can't overclock the non k intel chips last I checked and i5's always ran cool under stock speeds in my experience not to mention Thermalright makes air coolers that can perform like a AIO for a eighth the price

[RONOTHAN##]

16 minutes ago, KoeppColto024470 said:

since you can't overclock the non k intel chips last I checked

The 12th gen non-K chips were actually overclockable if you had a one of the handful of motherboards that supported it.

 

But yeah, even overclocked that chip doesn't draw that much power and something like a Thermalright Assassin X is plenty to cool it, let alone that AIO. It just isn't a hot CPU. 

[GoodGame]

32 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

The 12th gen non-K chips were actually overclockable if you had a one of the handful of motherboards that supported it.

 

But yeah, even overclocked that chip doesn't draw that much power and something like a Thermalright Assassin X is plenty to cool it, let alone that AIO. It just isn't a hot CPU. 

Thanks all for the reply. Yeah i just wanted to make sure as i will be putting it on this Mb. Seeing as it has as pathway for me to upgrade later to a 13th Gen 

Gigabyte B760 GAMING X AX DDR4 Motherboard  

[RONOTHAN##]

28 minutes ago, GoodGame said:

Thanks all for the reply. Yeah i just wanted to make sure as i will be putting it on this Mb. Seeing as it has as pathway for me to upgrade later to a 13th Gen 

Gigabyte B760 GAMING X AX DDR4 Motherboard  

OK, that board isn't one of the handful that can overclock 12th gen non-K CPUs (the cheapest of them would be the B760M PG Riptide if you're interested in it), though that board would do just fine for your CPU anyway. 

[Mark Kaine]

2 hours ago, KoeppColto024470 said:

heck the cooler that comes with it will be fine enough since you can't overclock the non k intel chips last I checked and i5's always ran cool under stock speeds in my experience not to mention Thermalright makes air coolers that can perform like a AIO for a eighth the price

yeah, but people want "water cooling" despite it looking awful and all the drawbacks that come with it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

 

 

[KoeppColto024470]

I was just trying to give advice based off his situation personally I wouldn't be dropping over $100 on a cooler if I can get the same kind of performance or better out of a air cooler that costs $30 or hell even free if they utilize the stock intel heatsink while it might not be ideal it's enough for a chip that doesn't run very hot. I use the stock heatsink that came with my Ryzen 5 2600 and while it might run warmer than what some people consider ideal it's nowhere near in danger of thermal throttling even under heavy loads