How much cooling needed for 7700x?

[Fat Cat11997]

The 7700x's specs say that it produces 105w of heat, but does that mean that i wont be bottlenecked using a 105w cooler? I've heard that modern cpus will turbo their clock speeds right before they start overheating, so would i be missing out on performance by getting a cooler that cookie cutter fits the wattage heat output? I am going to be playing a reallly cpu intensive game called beamng drive which has soft-body physics simulation. The current cpu cooler im gonna get has 265W heat dissipation power according to its specs. The link is here: https://www.amazon.com/Thermalright-Heatpipes-TL-C12B-Generation-Technology/dp/B0BR84PRP8/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.DovMa-Gpmy303B25u-ov6CVW3Ope_wY_AUMKQzcq8zhXvg6XtwOkWNvcYir4bmYLDirEozS_IxKZBEqhbsy5dngAESqV2wV7Pf0tLGj0um1G7QvV73lLriO5vUZgh95dCHa8rGZ66B4JWQ7sTD4UzPFwoEUgoN-xtSV6IwQw4jO8QpauKqSsBQ-hdwEpsxhF6yNE37i78e6zdUnQIpm-DBCKwUvjn-XucK-tKnCOYbxZ4HClLOOuzSI9ZhSU2g2g5YLX96IHuSGB1khV-xOLRCMqGoVekmVqMXyf9REfurI.O0rEdXAe0-HEbz4ZTU30vjUBnZF2JEZWlCQ3edrDJo4&dib_tag=se&keywords=Thermalright+Frost+Tower+120&qid=1708581786&s=electronics&sr=1-1

[GuiltySpark_]

That cooler is more than enough. 

[Tech Reprise]

20 minutes ago, Fat Cat11997 said:

The 7700x's specs say that it produces 105w of heat, but does that mean that i wont be bottlenecked using a 105w cooler? I've heard that modern cpus will turbo their clock speeds right before they start overheating, so would i be missing out on performance by getting a cooler that cookie cutter fits the wattage heat output? I am going to be playing a reallly cpu intensive game called beamng drive which has soft-body physics simulation. The current cpu cooler im gonna get has 265W heat dissipation power according to its specs. The link is here: https://www.amazon.com/Thermalright-Heatpipes-TL-C12B-Generation-Technology/dp/B0BR84PRP8/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.DovMa-Gpmy303B25u-ov6CVW3Ope_wY_AUMKQzcq8zhXvg6XtwOkWNvcYir4bmYLDirEozS_IxKZBEqhbsy5dngAESqV2wV7Pf0tLGj0um1G7QvV73lLriO5vUZgh95dCHa8rGZ66B4JWQ7sTD4UzPFwoEUgoN-xtSV6IwQw4jO8QpauKqSsBQ-hdwEpsxhF6yNE37i78e6zdUnQIpm-DBCKwUvjn-XucK-tKnCOYbxZ4HClLOOuzSI9ZhSU2g2g5YLX96IHuSGB1khV-xOLRCMqGoVekmVqMXyf9REfurI.O0rEdXAe0-HEbz4ZTU30vjUBnZF2JEZWlCQ3edrDJo4&dib_tag=se&keywords=Thermalright+Frost+Tower+120&qid=1708581786&s=electronics&sr=1-1

That is more than enough. If you want to reduce the heat a bit more then turn off PBO in bios. Less heat but also a bit less performance.

[Tetras]

18 minutes ago, Fat Cat11997 said:

The 7700x's specs say that it produces 105w of heat, but does that mean that i wont be bottlenecked using a 105w cooler?

TDPs are pretty much nonsense nowadays (TPU's average for games was 62 and apps was 80, in the review here), but to simplify: a decent air cooler like you have suggested can handle it just fine. The Zen 4 CPUs don't have a power problem, even the 7950X is pretty light, but do they run HOT by default, so if you use an air cooler, or an AIO, certain types of load/benchmarks will usually push you to 90c+ and that's considered normal, but for typical apps/games, you really don't need to worry.