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An AIO will take longer to saturate and will give superior results vs. an air cooler in pretty much any situation, generally speaking. That said, in my opinion an AIO is overkill for a i5-10400. As a matter of perspective, I'm running an i5-9600K (not over-clocking atm) with the Noctua NH-L12S and even during long sessions of video encoding I've never seen the CPU over 77C (ambient is somewhere around 29-30C/82-86F in my apartment...). Those temps are certainly safe & acceptable, to me.The NH-C14S (got to be the S version) is slightly beefier and might drop temps a couple degrees, but it requires low-profile RAM (I think it also requires the low-profile fan, but don't quote me on that). It's a tight squeeze in the M1 and basically will be right up against the side panel, as well.Hope that helps!
An AIO will take longer to saturate and will give superior results vs. an air cooler in pretty much any situation, generally speaking.
That said, in my opinion an AIO is overkill for a i5-10400. As a matter of perspective, I'm running an i5-9600K (not over-clocking atm) with the Noctua NH-L12S and even during long sessions of video encoding I've never seen the CPU over 77C (ambient is somewhere around 29-30C/82-86F in my apartment...). Those temps are certainly safe & acceptable, to me.
The NH-C14S (got to be the S version) is slightly beefier and might drop temps a couple degrees, but it requires low-profile RAM (I think it also requires the low-profile fan, but don't quote me on that). It's a tight squeeze in the M1 and basically will be right up against the side panel, as well.
Hope that helps!
