95W TDP cooler for 84W TDP CPU?

[Fartblossom]

Would a 95W TDP air cooler be sufficient for cooling a i7-4790 (84W) in a small case? Or should there be more headroom than that? I'm concerned that the fan will be running at high speed (noisy) all the time. Strictly a general purpose machine, no OC of course.

 

[Joe C]

As long as you have decent air flow within the case I do not see any issues that you would have

 

[Trotter]

As long as you have decent air flow within the case

^^^ This. All day long, this. It wouldn't matter how great a cooler you want to use if it can't breathe.

 

[Fartblossom]

The little case has a 120mm front intake and a 92mm rear exhaust. But it also has a RX-580.

 

[PP Mguire]

TDP doesn't really matter, what's the heatsink in question and we go from there.

 

[Joe C]

TDP doesn't really matter, what's the heatsink in question and we go from there.

We can only assume (we know what that means) that the OP is using OEM parts. We have no idea what brand of pc he is using.

 

[PP Mguire]

We can only assume (we know what that means) that the OP is using OEM parts. We have no idea what brand of pc he is using.

We all know Intel TDP numbers don't mean jack, that's why I asked what cooler because even Intel has 5 or 6 different stock coolers. Highly doubt we'll get anymore info though.

 

[Fartblossom]

The cooler is this. The The PC is not an OEM or pre-built, it's put together by myself years ago and I'm upgrading it to keep it usable for some light gaming.

 

[PP Mguire]

The cooler is this. The The PC is not an OEM or pre-built, it's put together by myself years ago and I'm upgrading it to keep it usable for some light gaming.

Well I'll be, yea it'll be fine.

 

[Fartblossom]

Well I'll be, yea it'll be fine.

I decided to go with something a bit beefier than 95W. But the skinny fan it comes with only runs at 2700 RPM max. So, I tested with Cinemabench.
I read that Cinebench R23 provides worse a case scenario for a given CPU. The cooler ran at full RPM and temps maxed at 75C on the hottest core.
Thanks to all of you. I appreciate the talk-thru.