Watercooling a MUST for Haswell-E/5820k?

[Owls]

I honestly cannot agree with air cooling when you are forced to use such a gigantic cooler that will certainly physically stress the motherboard.

 

[Murloc]

I honestly cannot agree with air cooling when you are forced to use such a gigantic cooler that will certainly physically stress the motherboard.

has a motherboard ever broke because one of those, if you leave your computer still?

 

[Headfoot]

I personally like AIO watercoolers but I look at it reverse from all of you guys. I see: I can get the same performance as a high-end air cooler, in a smaller space around the socket, and dump the heat outside of the case. It's a nice option if you have open air graphics cards also dumping hot air into your case or if you have a case with limited air flow. Most of the time I still go with a good old fashioned Coolermaster Hyper 212 Evo + 1 fan though

 

[schmuckley]

idk..I use a bong cooler ..
Max temp @ 4.4 Ghz is 61c under IBT.

 

[njdevilsfan87]

Some of you are a little bit paranoid when it comes to overclock corruption or whatever. If I had things that required days or longer of non-stop run time, then I'd still overclock - I just wouldn't push as far as I normally do.

But otherwise, time is money and if you do right you'll definitely benefit from overclocking. My Titans are clocked 60% higher than the professional parts, and my 5960x over 45% higher than stock. Those gains are pretty linear.

Plus if your data if that critical, you should be making continuous backups outside of the main system anyway. 4Ghz is no problem for a 5820K and I wouldn't ever be worried about instability at that frequency.