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Hello, i'm from Indonesia
I do interior design and play some strategy and FPS games
and i do interested to overclock when its possible

So i build my pc a week ago and specs are as follows
CPU: i3 8100 3.6GHz (with stock cooler)
GPU: Gigabyte GTX 1050 Ti 4GB DDR5
Motherboard: ASUS PRIME B360M-A
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX PC21000 2x4GB
1TB HD, 250GB SSD M.2 NVMe
A 500w PSU
3pcs of case fan (1200 rpm each)

Am i having a 'bottleneck' build? i use it for 3D rendering such as SketchUp most of the time

Should i replace my stock cpu cooler? and need an advice for CPU cooling
Currently confused between air and liquid cooling

Should i need to replace/upgrade something for my needs?

Best Regards from Indonesia
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paramprasetyo wrote Hello, i'm from Indonesia
I do interior design and play some strategy and FPS games
and i do interested to overclock when its possible

So i build my pc a week ago and specs are as follows
CPU: i3 8100 3.6GHz (with stock cooler)
GPU: Gigabyte GTX 1050 Ti 4GB DDR5
Motherboard: ASUS PRIME B360M-A
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX PC21000 2x4GB
1TB HD, 250GB SSD M.2 NVMe
A 500w PSU
3pcs of case fan (1200 rpm each)

Am i having a 'bottleneck' build? i use it for 3D rendering such as SketchUp most of the time

Should i replace my stock cpu cooler? and need an advice for CPU cooling
Currently confused between air and liquid cooling

Should i need to replace/upgrade something for my needs?

Best Regards from Indonesia
You have a 8100 which isnt a k chip so its not overclockable so the cooling you use doesnt matter. You will always have a bottle neck in you computer it just depends on what the component that is doing the bottlenecking is. In your case It is your cpu probably. If i were in your shoes I would probably upgrade your cpu to an overclockable i5 with a good Air cooler.
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Your motherboard does not support overclocking so even if you had an unlocked CPU, which you don't, you wouldn't be able to overclock anyway.

If you're having temperature issues with the stock cooler on the i3, then you can upgrade it if you wish but I can't imagine that i3 gets too warm, regardless of the cooler you're using. Any cheap air cooler would do, something like a Be Quiet Pure Rock(Slim) or Cryorig M9i.

There will always be a bottleneck in your system. What the bottleneck is, depends on what you're doing.
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