Look for coolers reviewed on techpowerup and you'll probably find something more than decent for your needs.

I researched the subject of liquid cooling a bit. The best air cooler can be as silent as the best liquid cooler; but the liquid cooler will cool better. So relatively speaking, you're right- but in practice, you'd pick liquid cooling for better cooling not for it being quieter.

edit: I don't know if that made sense - the cooling/noise ratio when you compare them is not linear.

If you are talking about a i3 9100f, the stock cooler is enough. If you really want lower temperatures (for the peace of mind) any "tower style" cooler, with heat pipes will do just fine.
This is a freaking good CPU and IMHO, the only one that is currently better than AMD in the same range. I just wonder why there is ZERO reviews by the "mainstream benchmarkers".

The i7 9700k don't have any stock cooler and you need a good quality one, specially with overclock, wich might require liquid cooling.

Comparing cooler by it's wheight is wrong. With that said, I guess you are refering to GPU sagging, not CPU... Usually on the CPU side, when better cooling is needed, people use water cooling.
GPU sagging was a rage a few years ago, where people resort to all kind of trick, including "statues" (ahahah), nylon cord and very strog backplates. This was when AMD R9 295 was still a thing and it needed to air cool 300W+ (not personally take on AMD as nVidia had some good history as well, lol).

Miss that good old times where a RAM sticks didn't have silly rainbow lights and performance really matter!

If you not satisfied with stock cooler and want cheap and good: https://tweakers.net/pricewatch/1314300/arctic-freezer-34.html

The Core i3-9100F is indeed a fantastic value at under a hundred €uro as long as you will be using a graphics card and four cores are enough for you.

i like the heavy washing machine story that fell through the floor. , especially because that is one thing that would never happen to me, despite my high 'badluck factor' cause i would keep my dishwasher, heavy washing machine
and other heavy stuff on groundfloor,.

A nice sturdy floor on solid ground , cement and maybe some concrete that would be possible to fall or breakthru unless an earthquake took place, so its best to keep those machines on ground floor, this way you don't have to walk the stairs to change, if it would catch fire , it would be below on ground floor, you could easily use the top stairs to decend from the front of the house cause the fire if started by the machine would be started on groundfloor... the neighbors would also have far less noise cause usally people sleep upstairs, so its always a win only situation.


Anyway just replied cause i really like the heavy washing machine story.

Yes i also referred to GPU sagging which is indeed far more common than CPU sagging, but CPU sagging does occur now and then, and even my huble GPU card i will buy ( and replace later when cashflow is better) migh sag indeed.

Anyway, thanks for the replies they are most helpfull
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ah yes, it is true "confirmation bias. On internet, often, by the dissatisfied minority ..."
you are 100% right about that, and there is lots of it more that people might think or even would expect.

Anyway ofcourse there is the 'dissatisfied minority ' which is true, they allways complain about anything that can be complained about ( many are actually quite fun to read :D)

The larger part of the people that always are right in whatever they say is also true, but there is also a very large that will never complain and or reply, so i rather be one of the minority or majority then the very large number of users that dont seem to have an opinion at all.

This is also present among voters :D well i am one of the minority / majority , depends on the topic / situation
but i do have opinions and i will vote , so its a yes or a no for me and maybe if permitted a NO votr or BLANK vote
but not to shrugs my shoulders and say i / we dont really care to vote or have an opinion at all, everyone has one except for some reason they do not want or care or maybe are just afraid to have one.

I live in an apartment and not on the ground floor. Never had an issue with the washing machine, but the downstairs neighbours sometimes complain when I'm trying to dissolve a body in the tub. :-P

Funny to mention it, once i made the same 'mistake', i had a new custom build PC and it was quiet... so wanted to start it but it was running already, normally you can adjust the button, to have it pushed long or twice to restart, shutdown the pc, seems you can set in somewhere , i heard a salesman talking about it in the PC hardware store.

Sorry, didnt know that, we have many apartments in our tiny country as well, , personally i would never get used to living that high up in the clouds, born on solid ground so i'm not used to heights .

Dissolving bodies in the tub ? :D? the old lady in RED (Retired and Extremely Dangerous) movie also disolves one in a tub,i can't recall if she is on ground floor or in an apartment.
Anyway as long as the tub doesnt leak or contents spill over the tub on the floor, sipping through small cracks or openings in the floor all the way down to the neighbours, everything should be okay. :D