To start with I had a hyper 212, which would have been the same for the 2500k. Eventually I feel I would have gone the same route with the Intel, so I tend to think of cooling as the same either way. I actually ran boinc for a long time, part of the long life of this chip!! My buddy and I actually had a little competition, the lower had to buy the other lunch. I really am excited to move to ryzen, recently the work I do on the computer has become more CPU heavy, so the improvements will be appreciated. Not to mention it is a large improvement at that, much more so than 6% per generation!