Ahem, uhh, thats a 7600x.
TDP for the cooler is well over double that of the CPU lol.
I guess futureproofing or whatever? Is that how i justify this?
Ahem, uhh, thats a 7600x.
TDP for the cooler is well over double that of the CPU lol.
I guess futureproofing or whatever? Is that how i justify this?
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No such thing as too much cooling.
Just means you can have the fans spinning slower, at least you didn’t spend more than the CPU cost on an AIO like goons do.
That just means your fan will be quieter, as long as it fits inside your case then you’re good.
Just means it’s going to be *extra*quiet now.
7000x series CPUs run hot. you miscalculated nothing
[https://youtu.be/JM-twyjfYIw?feature=shared&t=1076](https://youtu.be/JM-twyjfYIw?feature=shared&t=1076)
if anything, you lucked yourself into not having to make another post on here asking about temperatures being high
my 4770k ran up to 90° on the stock cooler. fitted a peerless assassin and have never seen temps above 55° since. sometimes too much is just right.
You can pick between more cooling or a noisier PC. Personally, I always go for more cooling.
Nah mah, that was a good choice. You’ve got a solid cooler there, and there’s no downside to “too much” cooling.
This post is making me feel better about my similar situation with a NH-D15. Just last night I was looking at it barely fitting in my PC case and felt I had overdone it. Especially with the other 11 fans on the case.
My PC can fly on fans.
I like big coolers and I cannot lie
Justify it as noise reduction costs.
Simply put if you got a cooler that maxed out at your cpus maximum power, then it’d be running at 100% fan speed. Meaning both louder and less lifespan for the fans.
However with all that extra cooling, your fans will likely be at 50% or less. So way quieter and longer life span
Oh, I found a used NH-D15 for around 60€ for my upcoming upgrade to an 7600x from a 3600. It’s gonna be super overkill but hey it was just 20€ more than the new thermalright assassin I was planning to buy.
These air coolers are great, I definitely wouldn’t worry about it! My only gripe is ram clearance
Eek, german company, BMW prices, performs as well as a Honda.
The PR3 is pretty well suited for a 7600X. The cooler heatsinks are hefty, but the fans are very low output, limiting its performance (and noise, did you expect anything else from be quiet!, clue is in the name).
Nah this is actually perfect. Question 1) does it work? Yes. Question 2) does it look cool? Yes. Done
I run a 7900x cpu with a phantom spirit 120se and only 3 front case fans in an H6 flow case. Never had any issue with temps. You should be good using this fan in future upgrades with higher tdp chips.
I was cooling a 1600AF using the same 140mm single fan chunk of a radiator that’s keeping my 5800X3D under 70 in full load lol
I have the same cooler for a living room pc I built recently running a 12900k. I’m very happy with its cooling and as expected it’s basically silent.
That’s gonna look and perform great!
Got the ID-Cooling Frozn A620 Pro SE (man that name is long!) for the non-x version of that CPU, made for a really cool and quiet PC for the guy whom ordered the build. CPU never north of 60C under max load with OC.
I strongly believe in over cooling rather than having a puny thing scream at you while temps are bordering on thermal limits.
No such thing as too much cooling. It means you can push the CPU harder more comfortably, run the fans slower, or just have the CPU sit at a lower temp which reduces any potential stress from heat cycles as the temperature difference is smaller (Note: I have literally never seen or heard of a CPU dying from this though, unless you count the 14th Gen Intels).
Being an air cooler as well, you can keep using that cooler as long as AMD/Intel continue to use the same cooler mounting, and even beyond that because bequeit will happily supply new mounting hardware when necessary. Air coolers virtually never fail, and aren’t fully appreciated for how good of an investment they can be.
I bought my current CPU cooler, the Bequiet Dark Rock Pro 4 for my Ryzen 2600X originally, and now it is happily cooling a 9800x3d, still making no noise and keeping temps below 70c even in all core synthetic loads.
Dude cooling is perfect! I have a Noctua Nh D15S for my Ryzen 5800x. And everything is around 45-52 under load…its ridiculous. Idle sits at 27 degrees. Only minecraft climbs hier in temps, but that game is known as a cpu heavy game. Nice find!!
https://preview.redd.it/qspij5fz99ue1.jpeg?width=2400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6760366f9c1cb97337c2e472aa4883fc673e3189
I’ve run a Noctua NH-D14 for about 10 years now. So far its cooled an i5 4690 (not K sku), Ryzen 7 2700, Ryzen 5 5600X and now Ryzen 7 5700X3D.
I valued quietness highly in the past, not so much now since my PC is in another room.
I have to dark rock 4 on a R5 5600 so don’t worry mines 3 times the tdp, looks good though.
Oh and a Corsair a500 strapped to a R5 3600
For anyone who’s curious “why?” about the a500 it cost me £5 in an eBay bid I made as a joke, I have it so might as well use it
I did the same thing with my 9600x except it was the Dark Rock 5.
My 7600x ran at about 95C on a 280 AIO when under load.
I’ve gone back to an air cooler and swapped out to a 9700x, much cooler now.
Well at least it’ll be quieter
I have a normal 7600 and it runs HOT with the stock cooler, you made the right choice
I’m careful with the word ‘futurproofing’ but yes, this is an excellent cooler in the event you upgrade to a higher-TDP chip.
I think that’s a good buy. I have a 7600 no x and I paired it with phantom spirit and it’s awesome. I believe I had temps at 60°c while gaming without pbo tuning. Yours will probably run slightly lower with your higher tdp
Fail to see the issue. Those cooler last +10 years usually.
Regardless the CPU used, I always figure if you’ve got the space for a monster cooler, then fit a monster cooler. The more cooling you have, the slower you can run the fans. In theory, with enough copper/aluminum, you can go completely fanless (though you’d need a TON of material), so putting a case-filling cooling block on even a low-energy CPU still means you gain a quieter PC for it as you approach that silent ideal.
It’s only a problem if your went over-budget, or if it doesn’t fit in your case.
at least you didnt spend custom loop cooling money on someone that I saw cooling a 5600 on FB marketplace and was asking far far far too much cus it was custom loop
Tbh you need something like that. That cpu gets toasty! Put a single fan tower cooler on my 7600x, but changed it for the dark rock pro as it was running too hot for my liking. Was really happy with the Dark rock, ran cool and quiet even under load. Changed for a 240 aio last week as I changed case and the dark rock didn’t fit, and I kind of miss it already.
that just means it might boost to 5450/5500 mhz if it can maintain under a certain threshold.
If anything, a beefier cooler will get you more headroom for Precision Boost Overdrive and thus increase performance in multithreaded workloads (though the benefit will be limited with six cores).
I fail to see the issue here. That’s gonna be one happy CPU.
You arent designing for the minimum mass while maximizing heat dissipation. You’re sticking a heat sink with a few fans on the cpu.
If it were me, I’d probably upgrade to a better heat sink. I wouldn’t trust cooling my cpu to a no name brand.
at least you didnt have to pay $80 for noctua like i did many years ago. The clones are so cheap its amazing.
No – you’re good.
All X-parts go up to 120-140W.
Hence you need super-coolers.