looking at picking up a AIO over my noctua nh-d15

[steftast1c]

so as the title says, im looking at getting an AIO over my noctua nh-d15  as randomly when booting up games my fans ramp up for no reason and temps shoot up for no reason, but overall it runs fine, (currently playing honkai star rail and its sitting around 50C) but when playing something a little more demanding like battlefield 2042 it can sit around 70+  ill also take suggestions to just not upgrade if its genuinely pointless but id just like to hear opinions

also i have the 13700k

the AIO im looking at is the Corsair iCUE H150i RGB ELITE

 

thanks 

 

 

stef

[CommanderAlex]

Try adjusting your fan curve? What CPU are you cooling it with? 

 

21 minutes ago, steftast1c said:

Corsair iCUE H150i RGB ELITE

I'd rather stick with air due to reliability and less points of failure. If a pump dies, the whole cooler is shot. If the fans die, you can always replace the fans. 

[steftast1c]

2 minutes ago, CommanderAlex said:

Try adjusting your fan curve? What CPU are you cooling it with? 

 

I'd rather stick with air due to reliability and less points of failure. If a pump dies, the whole cooler is shot. If the fans die, you can always replace the fans. 

i feel like an idiot for not adding this in my post, i have the 13700k

[PowerPCFan]

personal preference, unless you have a 13900k, don't do a custom loop or aio, I just hate water cooling. But if you're having problems with the temps, i'd try repasting, adjusting fan curve, etc., before upgrading to an AIO. 

 

what is your CPU?

 

Edit: I wrote 'what is your cpu' right before you just posted it

 

Yeah, I think the nh-d15 is plenty for a 13700k, and you should try repasting and adjusting fan curves. And remember, 70 degrees is not too hot, so if you want to slow down your fans a bit that's fine, but I wouldn't let it get above around 75-80 degrees. And don't overclock. 

 

 

Edit 2: but if you do get an aio i'd totally recommend that one, it's awesome (afaik)

[steftast1c]

1 minute ago, PowerPCFan said:

personal preference, unless you have a 13900k, don't do a custom loop or aio, I just hate water cooling. But if you're having problems with the temps, i'd try repasting, adjusting fan curve, etc., before upgrading to an AIO. 

 

what is your CPU?

 

Edit: I wrote 'what is your cpu' right before you just posted it

all good, but yeah i might do a repasting  see if that gives a fix

[PowerPCFan]

1 minute ago, steftast1c said:

all good, but yeah i might do a repasting  see if that gives a fix

i'd recommend the X method... I personally hardly have any thermal paste at the moment but I'm not going to fix it because my temps are always under 50 degrees...

 

[CommanderAlex]

7 minutes ago, steftast1c said:

i feel like an idiot for not adding this in my post, i have the 13700k

That's plenty for a 13700K and you may just have to adjust the fan curves so that they are not that aggressive. 

[Zando_]

54 minutes ago, steftast1c said:

but when playing something a little more demanding like battlefield 2042 it can sit around 70+ 

Perfectly fine temp.  As others said, just tweak the fan curve if it's ramping up and down rapidly. 

[freeagent]

D15 is a 220w cooler, 137K is a 255w part out of the box.. could be why its warm.

[NorKris]

70c is ... 100% fine   
if u load cinebench or Mr.95 u will see close too 100 but   stick with gaming and ur fiiine

[RevGAM]

The 13700k is a hot CPU. I would recommend getting a contact frame to improve thermal dissipation. Also, undervolt your CPU to help keep the temps lower. The temps you reported are not dangerous but it doesn't hurt to go for better cooling. 

 

When a game loads up, your system should experience a spike, but then calm down, although some games are very resource intensive so you may see spikes. When I play games like CoD MW2, Night Prop or Vampire the Masquerade, my 12700k gets pretty toasty but my U12A does a good job, and I have 10 case fans.

 

If after UV and a contact frame you still see 90 C+ temps regularly, you should either get a better air cooler, or move up to an AIO. I would not worry about failure too much as AIOs now are much more reliable and usually last 5-10 years. Air coolers basically almost never fail except for the fans. As long as you monitor your system, you'll notice when something is wrong. 

 

That Corsair is overpriced and noisy and there are several others that are better and cheaper.