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I dunno, the market buying an i5 7400 are generally opting for $50-$60 H110 budget boards and running off the oem cooler.

So to say you need a fancy cooler to not hit 80C , only to hit sub 4Ghz clocks, needing B350 minimum and the fastest memory ...that raises the cost to extract better performance of this option toward 7600K or even the 1600X territory.

At that point i'd just strongly consider the 7600K which runs like freak out of the box.

At this budget range it is all  silly when knowing throwing that price differential (anything from $30-50) at the GPU gains you better games performance. That goes both ways, obviously. This is an area where 'ricing out' budget parts makes little sense. If you are going to go cheap on the CPU, going minimalist on the guts of the system and going biggest you can afford on he GPU will generally net you beter games performance.



PC I i7 3770K @4.5Ghz I 16GB 2400Mhz I GTX 980Ti FTW

Consoles I PS4 Pro I Xbox One S 2TB I Wii U I Xbox 360 S