Which air cooler for a ryzen 9 5900x

[harm9963]

Here is mine

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I use Asus Dark Hero as well for my 5950X , I use ASUS DOCS ,plus Precision Boost 2 , single core is enhance , max temp is similar to stock , so happy with that .

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[#22]

You prefere steve from gn ?

BTW another one I don't like due to being airflow psycho living in the world where any case which isn't top ventilated on his charts will burn your components.

But if you aim to run your cooler with Steve's 35 dBA, so Arctic's ~1500 rpm or other averagely ~1200, his review is fine to look at. But I from the start meant being able to go lower with noise with bigger coolers.

 

[harm9963]

I use Asus Dark Hero as well for my 5950X , I use ASUS DOCS ,plus Precision Boost 2 , single core is enhance , max temp is similar to stock , so happy with that .

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Lack of cooling , will show up fast in BenchMate 2.5b .

 

[gasolin]

Impressive the peerlees phantom 120 beats just about every low budget air coolers, those who are better costs minimum twice as much up to 3 times as much (noctua)

Noctua NH-U12A is overpriced relative to it's performance like crap,hell atleast the NH-D15 is better by a good margin to the NH-U12A

 

[Chomiq]

Impressive the peerlees phantom 120 beats just about every low budget air coolers, those who are better costs minimum twice as much up to 3 times as much (noctua)

Noctua NH-U12A is overpriced relative to it's performance like crap,hell atleast the NH-D15 is better by a good margin to the NH-U12A

What else is new?

 

[P4-630]

Noctua NH-U12A is overpriced relative to it's performance like crap

Noctua NH-U12A you said? ...

 

[gasolin]

Noctua NH-U12A you said? ...

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Yes when you can get a thermalright pa 120 for 41 euros

What else is new?

The artic freezer 36 and we havn't seen the new Noctua NH-D15 (i will beat it won't be cheap)

 

[P4-630]

Well my NH-U12A isn't really crap though as you can see in my screenshot...

But it seems you don't have the budget and don't appreciate Noctua coolers...

You can always buy something on the cheap, check out ali express.

 

[Chomiq]

The artic freezer 36 and we havn't seen the new Noctua NH-D15 (i will beat it won't be cheap)

You're not stating anything that wasn't said before in this thread. Also, people have already posted the review for Freezer 36. You have everything you need to make a decision.

 

[dirtyferret]

Impressive the peerlees phantom 120 beats just about every low budget air coolers, those who are better costs minimum twice as much up to 3 times as much (noctua)

Noctua NH-U12A is overpriced relative to it's performance like crap,hell atleast the NH-D15 is better by a good margin to the NH-U12A

Noctua U12A is designed to give larger cooler like performance for cases that limit air coolers to 160mm and under while also not putting as much physically stress on the mobo. It does a very good job at that for a price, obviously Noctua has better coolers for less if your case can fit them.

 

[GamerGuy]

I have a TR PA 120 SE on my 3900X and it's doing a bang up job at cooling it, does just about as well (maybe a little worse off compared to the TT Water 3.0 360 ARGB AIO I had before it). It's in a different case though, the 3900X (+ GB X570S Aorus Elite AX) is now in a SOLDAM XR-1 and the Tt Water 360 AIO is cooling my 5900X (+ GB X570 Aorus Xtreme) in a CM H500M case. So, my recommendation is a TR PA 120 or its successor, but IF OP already has a PA120, I don't see a need for any sort of change....

 

[Waldorf]

@gasolin
takes about 2min to set the power saving profile (turning off any power saving features like wifi/usb/pci meant for portable stuff),
and set max cpu perf to 50%.
doing this since i7 3700K, as i dont need +4 cores at full clocks to surf o stream stuff,
done the same on my 5950, even that is under water.

ignoring for a moment taht 'noise" on most coolers incl aio, is from
1 "cheap" fans.
2 lazy folks that dont care to setup a fan/cooler properly to not ramp up unless gong above
50-60C.

not a single build i have done in past 20y where a user complained about it being noisy,
and that's incl ~25$ arctics and ~120/130$ Corsair/Arctic and Alphacool AIO (rad as exhaust).

 

[gasolin]

50% is not at all enough, i bought a 12 core cpu, not 6 core

fb games use my cpu above 50%

 

[Waldorf]

u set up 2 profiles,
power saving (low load like surfing/streaming),
and balanced for gaming/benching/video editing (min cpu to 99, max to 100%), switch between them based on use.

even without a UPS (which adds the battery icon on taskbar allowing for quicker switching),
there are tools for win, that u can use.
heck there are online guides how to have 2 cmds on the desktop
that get double clicked, to switch between profiles.

power plan switching

 

[#22]

Impressive the peerlees phantom 120 beats just about every low budget air coolers, those who are better costs minimum twice as much up to 3 times as much (noctua)

Noctua NH-U12A is overpriced relative to it's performance like crap,hell atleast the NH-D15 is better by a good margin to the NH-U12A

Stop tying price with performance.

E.g. longevity of Noctua's fans is legendary. I haven't had opportunity to try new Thermalrights, but looking how cheap they sell dual towers with two fans, I would be surprised if their craftmanship wasn't bottom of the barrel Pretty common are complaints about coming with SE coolers fans starting to rattle after not long, few weeks or month what fits my suspicion well.

Other thing you pay for when going Noctua is their customer service. Renowned and supporting almost all coolers they've ever made with kits for new sockets. TR does kits too, but I would like to know how it works in practice. They're for sale online, but from what I've seen pretty expensive when Noctua's is known for sending them for free at least during six-year warranty.

BTW these are two reasons why even most expensive Noctuas happen to be the cheapest in the long run :]

 

[gasolin]

My Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 Black has no problems with the fans and it is close to 9 month old

 

[#22]

My Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 Black has no problems with the fans and it is close to 9 month old

9 months is an impressive result!

 

[Super Firm Tofu]

I'm not really seeing an issue here

The OP is overclocking the 5900X with an extra 80 watts past spec with a $30 air cooler. What's the problem?? The temps are exactly where they should be. You're not going to go much lower even with the best cooler and 2000+ RPM fans.

If you have a fetish for low temps at high wattage, buy intel.

 

[gasolin]

when playing games my cpu in chrome goes above 70c

 

[A Computer Guy]

Impressive the peerlees phantom 120 beats just about every low budget air coolers, those who are better costs minimum twice as much up to 3 times as much (noctua)

Noctua NH-U12A is overpriced relative to it's performance like crap,hell atleast the NH-D15 is better by a good margin to the NH-U12A

One thing to consider with Noctua is their fan noise "sounds better". It might just be me but even at audibly high rpms they seem to have a nicer sound than other fans. Also some Noctua coolers come with the Ryzen offset mounting kit giving them a slight advantage over other coolers.

 

[dirtyferret]

when playing games my cpu in chrome goes above 70c

sounds normal, that CPU is designed to run hot and won't start to throttle until 85 or 90c if I recall (forget which)

 

[A Computer Guy]

sounds normal, that CPU is designed to run hot and won't start to throttle until 85 or 90c if I recall (forget which)

When I had my 5950x on NH-L9a it throttled around 90c so I think you are correct on that. I love your system specs btw.

 

[P4-630]

I love your system specs btw.

However:
Storage "Stronger than yours"

 

[#22]

when playing games my cpu in chrome goes above 70c

You have already almost the best air cooling can offer and even yourself link reviews showing that changing it with "stronger" won't shave you more than few degrees. It all when your 70C is totally fine for this CPU. You must be from the gang of temperatures always too high. All the time monitoring temps and living in fear of your precious components dying from overheating when they don't. It's what needs to be changed here, not an air cooler

 

[A Computer Guy]

However:
Storage "Stronger than yours"

I imagine storage HDD arms are strong, perhaps strong enough to rip off heads if they touch the forbidden platter?