AIO upgrade??

[Bloody oath]

Hello fellow computer enthusiasts, 

I was wondering if it would be worth upgrading my Be Quiet Dark Rock 3 to the Corsair H105i PRO 360mm AIO. The be quiet is a great air cooler and achieves the 4.8 Ghz clock @ 75 degrees Celsius on my 8700k toasty boi (I think it could be improved). 

Anyway let me know what you guys and gals all think.

 

cheers.

[BubblyCharizard]

75C is perfectly fine

[Bloody oath]

Just now, BubblyCharizard said:

75C is perfectly fine

Ok but do you think upgrading would be worth it??

thanks for your reply!

[Skiiwee29]

6 minutes ago, Bloody oath said:

Ok but do you think upgrading would be worth it??

thanks for your reply!

not really. You will gain maybe 1-3c better at most which wont allow you to push it any higher most likely. Good, large air coolers such as the DR3 perform within margin of error with AIOs. 

[Bloody oath]

7 minutes ago, legacy99 said:

not really. You will gain maybe 1-3c better at most which wont allow you to push it any higher most likely. Good, large air coolers such as the DR3 perform within margin of error with AIOs. 

Thanks for saving my money lol.

[Froody129]

Did you delid the 8700k? That would help more than an AIO 

[For Science!]

6 hours ago, CUDA_Cores said:

It would also void the warranty.

 

There is also risk from delidding. You could break off capacitors that render the whole chip useless in the process, breaking your $300 CPU without a replacement because Intel isn't gonna give you a new chip for ripping off the lid. 

 

Tons of risk associated with delidding a chip. Intel should just solder the die like AMD does on their enthusiast parts and be done with it.

 

 

While this is true in large, there are no capacitors on the surface of the 8700K (and for all Kaby, Sky, and Coffee lake chips for that matter) so the risk is minimum if you use a delidding tool, where it is slightly dodgy is if you do the traditional razer/knife method and risk cutting into the PCB.