Just use a plain cheap Arctic Freezer 36 Air cooler in combination with the included contact frame and MX-6 paste. This thing is built for LGA1700.
This is the performance to be expected:
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Technotice even tried with unlimited power settings on the 14900K (this was obviously before degradation of the higher end Intel CPUs). Worked flawlessly on air with CB in MC mode. The performance is in the 360 AIO range (but with slightly better fans on it, the original Arctic P12 PWMs which they tested it later on in the video performed somewhere between 240 and 360 AIOs). I bought one of those, and it is really that good. For example, at 300W (which is insane nowadays) the i9 won't throttle in a Cinebench Multicore run, all cores perform and the temps are below 90 Celsius.
The Freezer 36 is also dead quiet, even at high loads. In terms of noise-normalized performance, it's mostly leading the charts vs other air coolers. The other unique thing about this is that it generates a stiff airflow from front to back, which is very good to transport the heat to the back, but because of that rigid air tunneling only minor amounts of air gets lost to cool down VRMs and the socket outer area (which most air coolers tend to somewhat cool down too because more air gets lost on the way). So in this regard it is comparable to an AIO, too
Also, just to make sure, most reviews don't test the Freezer 36 with the included contact frame and mx-6 like in the video above, so be prepared to see some mediocre reviews. But trust me, this thing flies on LGA 1700. I bought mine for approx $22 new from Amazon a yr ago - I can strongly recommend that to anyone on LGA1700. BUT: Do not buy for AM5, the performance is not that good there (better use the Thermalright air coolers or some budget AIO like the Freezer III variants for most bang of your buck cooling with AMD).
Well then, you have a lot of flexibility if you want to go with an AIO.
