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Best cooler for an i9 12900k that won’t destroy my wallet

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You'll want a 280 or 360 AIO ideally.

The Arctic Liquid Freezer II line is a good choice. It's $110 for the 280 and $140 for the 360. The performance difference between the two isn't huge so the 280 would be good depending on case comparability.

Thanks for the suggestion! I Won the 12900k in a raffle

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Are you overclocking?

The logic here isn't quite sound, I'm not sure why you would want a budget anything with a 12900k which is a budgetless CPU.

You should be shopping top end coolers like NHD15 or 280/360mm AIOs. Getting the largest cooler you can fit in your case would be ideal if you intend on overclocking.

I just finished my build and have a 12900k on a Z690 MB with a 3080 suprim. I use a 240mm deepcool and I was worried about temps but honestly unless you're rendering you'll be fine with a 240mm aio

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