NH-U14S, i7 8700k?
NH-U14S, i7 8700k?
Will the NH-U14S offer adequate cooling when you attempt to overclock your CPU to 4.9? Additionally, with the EK-TIM ECTOTHERM THERMAL COMPOUND, do you think it will perform better than the one provided by NH? COOLERMASTER MASTERBOX 5t GAMING CASE provides a decent airflow if needed.
Unless you win the silicon lottery, it seems unlikely you can comfortably run 4.9GHz on an 8700K without swapping the stock TIM under the IHS for liquid metal. After making that change, you could.
For thermal paste beneath your cooler, Noctua's NT-H1 is a solid choice—it comes with their coolers.
I used NH-D15S for my 7700K to achieve 4.9GHz, and during testing at 1.35V, it maintained stable temperatures of 85-90°C within minutes using Prime95. I think the 7th and 8th-gen K series i7 models don’t need significant overclocking since they offer minimal gaming performance gains, only cost savings and personal satisfaction from being able to push them.
At the very least, consider a 280mm liquid cooler or a custom loop if you’re not planning to...
Unless you win the silicon lottery, it seems unlikely you can comfortably run 4.9GHz on an 8700K without swapping the stock TIM under the IHS for liquid metal. After making that change, you could.
For thermal paste beneath your cooler, Noctua's NT-H1 is a solid choice—it comes with their coolers. I used NH-D15S for my 7700K to achieve 4.9GHz, and at 1.35V it reached 85-90°C within a minute or two during Prime95 testing. In my opinion, the 7th and 8th-gen K series i7 models don’t really need overclocking since they offer minimal gaming performance gains, only cost savings and personal satisfaction from being able to push them.
At the very least, consider installing a 280mm liquid cooler or a custom loop if you want to avoid overheating. It could at least lower your maximum temperature by about 5°C.
Volkgren:
Unless you win the silicon lottery, I doubt you can comfortably run 4.9GHz on an 8700K without swapping the standard TIM under the IHS for liquid metal. After that, you could.
For thermal paste beneath your cooler, Noctua's NT-H1 is quite satisfactory—it comes with their coolers.
I used NH-D15S for my 7700K to achieve 4.9GHz and observed that at 1.35V, reaching 4.9GHz took about 85-90°C within a minute or two using Prime95. I think the 7th and 8th-gen K series i7 models don’t need overclocking much since they offer little gaming performance gain, only cost savings and personal satisfaction from being able to overclock.
At the very least, consider a 280mm liquid cooler or a custom loop if you don’t want to risk overheating. It could at least lower your maximum temperature by around 5°C.
Alright, I’ll definitely give it a shot tomorrow and let you know how it goes. In the worst case, I’ll just reset everything and stick to stock, as I won’t mind much if things go wrong—we’ll see what happens with the temperatures.
It's a decent cooler. I don't really suggest a delid, but it brought the temperature down to 20C. I just installed Thermal Grizzly Liquid metal for my 7700K yesterday, and now I can run 4.9GHz at 1.35V in Prime95 without reaching 87C—previously it would hit 87C. Still, I'm not seeing much difference when playing games at 4.5GHz, 4.9GHz, or even 5.0GHz.
Volkgren:
It’s a decent cooler. I don’t really suggest using a delid, but it brought my temperature down to 20C.
I just installed Thermal Grizzly Liquid metal for my 7700K yesterday and now I can run 4.9GHz at 1.35V in Prime95 without reaching 87C—previously it would hit 87C.
To be honest, I don’t notice much difference when playing games at 4.5GHz, 4.9GHz or even 5.0GHz.
I’m just trying to overclock for fun, you know? Maybe I’m lucky.
Regarding the delid, I won’t do it right now.
Still, at full load, I won’t overclock heavily (like in games such as BF1 on ultra) unless I’m playing. Usually, I don’t exceed 65C, which isn’t too bad—especially since I haven’t changed the cooler or the paste yet.
The cooler I have is a Super Quiet Titan DragonFly Heatpipe Intel CPU Cooler (not the original, but still not great).
We’ll see how things turn out.
Volkgren:
Tell me how it's going. I'm interested to see.
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Will do
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I run my 8700k with an air cooler (beQuiet Dark Rock Pro 3, 250 TDP) and have adjusted various overclocking parameters. The optimal setting for continuous overclocking is around 4.8GHz with a voltage of about 1.27V. Even during AVX benchmarks and stress tests, temperatures remain below 90°C, and in most non-prime95 AVX stress tests they stay under 80°C. Running at 4.9 or 5.0Ghz gives stable performance, though some stress tests cause slightly higher temperatures.