The last AM4 upgrade

[BigTroll]

Back in 2017 for the launch of Ryzen I bought an Asrock x370 Killer SLI/AC and Ryzen 1700 motherboard combo from newegg, it was a good deal but I didn't think it would last me so long. I originally had 16gb ram a EVGA GTX 970 latter the 970 was replaced with a EVGA GTX 1080 and finally a Nvidia Geforce 3080 Founders Edition. the CPU went from a 1700 to 2700x, 3900x and now finally to a 5950x and I got 32gb ram. I still cant believe how long AM4 lasted and the 5950x was $348 with tax included from antonline using the 20% presidents day coupon. I got a ID cooling 360 water cooler on her and shes running like a champ. END TLDR

[stj]

360? does a 120watt cpu really need 3 fans or is it for the asthetics

[BigTroll]

Its a bit of both, I got the cooler on sale back when I had the 2700x for only $76 back in 2020, its been working great since but even with a all core load on the 2700x with the stock wraith max cooler it would start throttling and this most definitely helped. the model I got was the auraflow x by ID cooling its fairly basic but did come with the 3 fans with RGB in the hubs.

[stj]

i have a 5900x with the ID-cooling 240 version - also picked up cheap
i think the wraith fan is only for the 60w cpu's, not the "x" class ones

[dmill89]

i have a 5900x with the ID-cooling 240 version - also picked up cheap
i think the wraith fan is only for the 60w cpu's, not the "x" class ones

The only wraith cooler worth a damn is the Prism but even it isn't really sufficient for the higher end CPUs it is bundled with, the wraith stealth and spire coolers are utter garbage (fall into the "better than nothing" category, but just barely), and can't even keep up with the 65W TDP CPUs without throttling. You certainly can effectively cool a 5900x/5950x with air, but it takes a pretty big cooler to do it.

I'm currently running a ThermalRight Frost Commander 140 on my 5900x and it has no trouble keeping up (stays at 75C or below even after hours of running at full load, and below 50C under most "normal" loads) but this thing is a beast and while that isn't an issue in my Cooler Master HAF 932 case (also a beast), it could certainly pose fitment issues in many cases.

[stj]

i have a similar cooler but dont like them,
no science to back it up, but i'm sure all that mass puts a lot of stress on the board and may bend it eventually