Question About Extreme Cooling

Hi davealej....  Welcome to the forums.

I wouldn't advise the Standard factory heat sink, since its the  the bare minimum and is designed to Just keep it cool enough.  Although with the workstation cpu you might not overclock, its still minimum for me.   Plus, it dumps the heat right into the case. 

The Extreme Hydrolux is the other end of the scale and more for those that want to push the overclocking as high as they can or just want the look and feel of it.   It does allow for a quieter system if the graphics cards are under water, but not needed.  If you have the money and always wanted a water cooled rig, then go for it. 

A good way to go for performance and saving a few bucks, would be the Corsair H100i GTX or similar.  It's a sealed unit, meaning no maintenance and they cool great and are reliable.  And the heat drawn from the chip is exited from the case. 

If a cpu stays in the safe range, the longevity is still there.  Its when the temps keep climbing close to their limits that the chip might be effected. 

Hope this helps.

 

That'll work just fine and is better than the factory cooler.   

Lots of ways to go.

Get an AIO which requires no maintenance at all.

If you're doing the editing you say, cooling is something you should consider. You're going to keep that CPU pegged at 100% for long periods quite often. That is going to be a lot of heat inside that case a lot. And given the fact that I doubt you're buying a workstation that has tons of fans all over the case, the inside of that case will be hot... all the time.

Get something like a Corsair H60 or H80. Something small, with 0% maintenance ever. It'll help with keeping the cpu cool and the heat outside.